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Just how much impact did the U.S. government shutdown of 2013 have on the nation’s financial markets? Michigan Ross Professors Ryan Ball and Venky Nagar recently studied the effects of this 16-day phenomenon and co-authored a paper on it with a University of Utah expert. Their conclusion? “Liquidity significantly deteriorated."

Gregory Jonas, who served for 23 years at Arthur Andersen, and Robert Anthony, long associated with PriceWaterhouseCoopers, will be recognized as honorees during the Paton Fellow Induction Ceremony to be held March 30, 2017 at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business building.

Assistant Professor of Accounting Christopher Williams and three associates were named recipients of the 2016 Deloitte Foundation Wildman Medal at the 2016 annual meeting of the American Accounting Association (AAA). Williams, along with Mary Barth of Stanford University and Wayne Landsman and Mark Lang of the University of North Carolina, were honored for their paper comparing IFRS-based and US GAAP-based accounting amounts, which appeared in the August 2012 issue of the Journal of Accounting Economics.