Biography

Jason Bangert is a fourth-year doctoral student with research interests in capital markets, financial reporting, corporate governance and tax. His dissertation, “The Disparate Effects of Non-Reliance Restatements on Retail and Institutional Investor Trading,” investigates how aspects of firm disclosure differentially affect the trading decisions of investors with varying levels of sophistication. His other research projects examine how ownership structure and executive employment arrangements influence manager incentives and the quality of the external information environment. “Disproportionate Insider Control and the Informativeness of Stock Returns about Future Earnings” is co-authored with Linda Myers and Roy Schmardebeck, and “The Determinants and Consequences of Interim CFO Appointments” is co-authored with Scott Johnson, Linda Myers and Roy Schmardebeck. Bangert earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in accounting from Truman State University in 2016 and 2017, respectively. He is a member of the American Accounting Association and a licensed CPA in the state of Missouri. Prior to entering the Ph.D. program, he was a tax associate at PwC in St. Louis, Mo. He taught Intermediate Financial Accounting II and Introduction to Financial Accounting while at UT. Bangert expects to complete his Ph.D. requirements by May 2023.