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 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 influences their trading patterns and market prices. His recent work examines how the properties of firms’ accounting policies influence derivative prices, and the role played by derivative markets when investors speculate on macroeconomic risk.