
Courses a.y. 2025/2026
Biographical note
Paul Demeré is an Assistant Professor of Accounting at Bocconi University. He received a Ph.D. in Accountancy from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Before joining Bocconi, he was an Assistant Professor at University of Georgia and worked as a tax accountant for PwC in the USA. His research focuses on the information content in corporate tax disclosures, the effects of disclosures on corporate stakeholders, tax planning and corporate malfeasance, and auditor-client interactions. His research has been published in The Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research, Review of Accounting Studies, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, Journal of the American Taxation Association, and Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance.
Selected Publications
The economic effects of special purpose entities on corporate tax avoidance
CONTEMPORARY ACCOUNTING RESEARCH, 2020
The usefulness of corporate income tax accounting: Evidence from pension returns
ACCOUNTING REVIEW, 2023
Do U.S. multinationals use income shifting to facilitate and hide corruption?
JOURNAL OF ACCOUNTING AND PUBLIC POLICY, 2024
Can a viral blunder damage auditor brand name reputation? Evidence from Envelopegate
JOURNAL OF ACCOUNTING AUDITING & FINANCE, 2024
Smoothing GAAP ETRs through tax accruals and the quality of financial reporting
THE JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN TAXATION ASSOCIATION, Forthcoming