Valeri Nikolaev

Valeri Nikolaev is the James H. Lorie Professor of Accounting at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He earned his PhD in accounting cum laude from Tilburg University (2007), an MSc in economics from Charles University in Prague (2002), and a BSc in economics with distinction from Minsk's Institute of Management (1999). His research focuses on financial reporting in capital markets, AI's transformative role in information processing, and the economic consequences of accounting standards.

• Education: PhD (Tilburg University), MSc (Charles University), BSc (Minsk's Institute of Management)

Nikolaev's work examines accounting information's role in contracts, transparency in financial reporting, and valuation of non-financial assets. His recent studies demonstrate LLMs' superior performance in financial analysis tasks and reveal how information context affects asset pricing models.

His research has produced 15+ publications since 2012, including in Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Financial Economics, and Review of Accounting Studies. He has served as Senior Editor at Journal of Accounting Research and previously as Associate Editor at Management Science and Journal of Accounting and Economics.