EDWARD OWENS portrait
  • Director, Accounting PhD Program, Accounting Department
  • Associate Professor, Accounting Department

Honors & Awards

  • David Eccles Faculty Fellowship. David Eccles School of Business, 06/08/2023
  • AAA Outstanding Service Award (FARS Steering Board, 2017-2021). American Accounting Association, 12/31/2021

In the Media

  • My paper "Lending Relationships Along Ownership Lines: Institutional Cross-Ownership and Bank Loan Contracts" was featured in the FinReg Blog published by the Global Financial Markets Center at Duke University School of Law. 05/19/2021. https://sites.law.duke.edu/thefinregblog/2021/05/1...

Professional Service

  • Multiple Accounting Journals. Role: Referee. Referee/Reviewer (6 papers, including CAR, JAE, TAR, JBFA). 01/01/2023 - 12/31/2023
  • American Accounting Association. Role: Chair-Elect. Global Emerging Scholars Research Workshop. 01/01/2023 - 12/31/2023
  • American Accounting Association/Deloitte Foundation. Role: Session Breakout Leader. Doctoral Consortium Guest Faculty. 06/23/2021 - 06/24/2021
  • Multiple Accounting and Finance Journals. Role: Referee. Referee/Reviewer (approximately 15-20 papers, including JAE, JAR, TAR, CAR, RAST, Management Science). 01/01/2021 - 12/31/2021
  • European Accounting Association. Role: Paper Reviewer. 2021 EAA Annual Meeting Scientific Committee. 01/01/2021 - 02/01/2021
  • American Accounting Association. Role: Organizing submitted papers into topical tracks; Assigning submitted papers to track chairs; making final accept/reject decisions for papers; organizing accepted papers into conference sessions. 2021 AAA Annual Meeting Co-Coordinator (for the FARS section). 12/01/2020 - 07/31/2021
  • American Accounting Association. Role: Reviewer and Discussant Assignment; Paper acceptance decisions; Paper session scheduling. 2019 AAA Annual Meeting Debt Contracting Track Chair. 01/2019 - 07/2019
  • The Accounting Review. Role: Strategic input; Elevated refereeing responsibility. Editorial Board. 01/01/2019 - present

Internal Service

  • Career-Line Faculty Search Committee. Member, 01/30/2023 - 05/01/2023. Department service.
  • Accounting Department RPT Committee. Member; Evaluate retention tenure and promotion cases (including informal reviews), 01/01/2023 - 12/31/2023. Department service.
  • School of Accounting Advisory Board. Member/Meeting Attendee, 01/01/2023 - 12/31/2023. Department service.
  • DESB Ph.D. Committee. Member, 01/01/2023 - 12/31/2023. College service.
  • David Eccles School of Business Funding Incentive Seed Grant Program. Proposal Reviewer, 12/2021 - 12/2021. College service.
  • Speaker/Panelist at MACC Orientation Session. Speaker, 09/2021 - 09/2021. Department service.
  • Botosan Doctoral Award Committee. Evaluate applicants, 03/18/2021 - 03/19/2021. Department service.
  • Accounting Department RPT Committee. Evaluate retention tenure and promotion cases (including informal reviews), 01/01/2021 - 12/31/2021. Department service.
  • Accounting Faculty Recruiting Committee. Member; evaluated applications; conducted interviews, 01/01/2021 - 03/31/2021. Department service.