Kevin Smith completed his PhD in accounting at University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business in 2018. Prior to starting his PhD, he earned bachelor’s degrees in accounting, economics, finance, and mathematics at the University of Maryland College Park. Smith’s research focuses on how the diversity of information that investors possess — including voluntary and mandatory firm disclosures and private information on firm risk — influences their trading patterns and market prices. He further applies theoretical models to study how equity and option prices can be used to measure key features of firms’ accounting reports.