June 3, 2016, in the afternoon, invited by School of Economics and Management Accounting Department, associate professor Gong Guojin from Pennsylvania State University made a presentation entitled "" After You! "Timing of Earnings Releases Under Relative Performance Evaluation" at conference room 132 in the main building. Teachers from the Department of Accounting and the entire doctoral students and graduate students attended the seminar. Professor Gong discovered when using Relative Performance based compensation, the management may choose to delay as much as possible to disclose their company information in order to obtain a larger comparative information advantage.

Speaker Profile：
　　Guojin Gong is currently an Associate Professor of Accounting at the Smeal College of Business. She holds a Ph.D. in Accounting from University of Iowa, a M.S. in Economics from Washington University at St. Louis, and a B.A. in Economics from Peking University in China. Her research interests are in financial disclosure and corporate governance, with a focus on voluntary disclosure and executive compensation. Her research has been published in leading academic journals such as The Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Finance, Review of Accounting Studies, and Management Science. In addition, her research has been featured in Wall Street Journal and other business media. Professor Gong’s teaching interests include financial reporting, financial statement analysis, and equity valuation. She has taught “Intermediate Financial Accounting” to undergraduates and “Research Methodology” to Ph.D. students in the Smeal College of Business. Professor Gong serves on the editorial board of Contemporary Accounting Research (2014-2016), and serves as Associate Editor of China Accounting and Finance Review (2015-2016). She is also a member of the American Accounting Association and American Finance Association.