Faculty Directory

Mary Ellen Carter

Professor and Joseph L. Sweeney Chair

Department

Accounting

Profile

Professor Mary Ellen Carter studies the effects of financial reporting and regulation on incentives and executive compensation. Recent research includes gender pay gaps, labor market pressures on compensation and the influence of compensation consultants on CEO pay. She has published in Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, The Accounting Review, Review of Accounting Studies, and Journal of Financial Economics.In addition, she has been featured inForbes, theFinancial Times, and TheNew York Times, as wellas other business media. She is currently an editor atThe Accounting Reviewand associate editor atManagement Science.

Before joining the Carroll School, she was a faculty member at the Wharton School and the Columbia Business School. She teaches intermediate accounting to undergraduates.