Ryan Ball

Ryan Ball studies the role of information in capital markets, debt contracting, and empirical asset pricing. His research papers include "The Debt-Contracting Value of Accounting Information and Loan Syndicate Structure" written with Robert Bushman and Florin Vasvari for the Journal of Accounting Research and his dissertation, "Does Anticipated Information Impose a Cost on Risk-Averse Investors?" He wants students who take his classes to "fully understand the underlying economics of complex deals."

Ball is an American Accounting Association Doctoral Consortium Fellow, an AFAANZ Doctoral Colloquium Fellow, a Deloitte & Touch Doctoral Fellow, and a Russ College of Engineering Stocker Fellow. Previously he was a structural engineer at B&N and a project engineer at Baker Concrete Technologies.

At the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he earned an MBA in 2003 and a PhD in accounting in 2008. At Ohio University, Ball earned a bachelor's degree in civil engineering in 1996 and a master's degree in structural engineering in 1998.

He enjoys soccer, hockey, guitar, mixed martial arts, good tequila, and polar bears.

Selected Publications

With Robert Bushman and Florin Vasvari, "The Debt-Contracting Value of Accounting Information and Loan Syndicate Structure," Journal of Accounting Research (2008).

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