FRANCESCA FRANCO

10282 PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT & CONTROL
11641 MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING
20479 PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT E CORPORATE STRATEGY - MODULO I (PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT) / PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT AND CORPORATE STRATEGY - MODULE I (PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT)
20820 IMPACT AND SUSTAINABILITY MEASUREMENT
41008 ACCOUNTING 5 - ACCOUNTING AND GOVERNANCE

I am an Associate Professor in the Accounting Department at Bocconi University. I received a B.A. from Bocconi University, a PhD in Economics from the University of Padova, and a postdoc in Accounting at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. My research focuses on executive compensation, incentive contracting, and corporate governance. Before joining Bocconi, I was on the faculty at London Business School (as assistant professor -2007 to 2016- and adjunct associate professor -2016 to 2022) and held visiting lecturer positions at Cambridge Judge Business School, Imperial College London and Cass Business School.

I sit on the Management Committee of the European Accounting Association (EAA) and am the Chair of the EAA Symposia Committee.
My latest research grants are: ‘Multimodal communication in corporate reporting: Combining words and images in corporate disclosure’ (PI, with F. Grossetti), funded by Fondazione Romeo ed Enrica Invernizzi; ‘Sustainable Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and new communication technologies. From a ‘push’ to a ‘pull’ notion of value and corporate reporting’, (PI, with P. Quattrone), funded by the Institute of Management Accountants Research Foundation (IMA, USA); ‘Calculating sustainability: making accounting and accountants central again’, (with P. Quattrone, funded by the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA, UK).

Incentive Contracting, Executive Compensation, Corporate Governance.

Franco, Francesca; Urcan, Oktay; Vasvari, Florin P.
Corporate diversification and the cost of debt: the role of segment disclosures
ACCOUNTING REVIEW, 91(4): 1139-1165, 2016

Franco, Francesca; Ittner, Christopher D.; Urcan, Oktay
Determinants and trading performance of equity deferrals by corporate outside directors
MANAGEMENT SCIENCE, 63(1): 114-138, 2017

Carter, Mary E.; Franco, Francesca; Gine, Mireia
Executive gender pay gaps: the roles of female risk aversion and board representation
CONTEMPORARY ACCOUNTING RESEARCH, 2017

Carter, Mary Ellen; Franco, Francesca; Tuna, Irem
Matching premiums in the executive labor market
ACCOUNTING REVIEW, 94(6): 4-28, 2019

Franco, Francesca; Urcan, Oktay
Executive deferral plans and insider trading
CONTEMPORARY ACCOUNTING RESEARCH, 39(2): 1054-1084, 2022, 2021