Pietro Perotti featured on The Best of Our Knowledge

I am mainly interested in three broad areas of research: the capital market effects of accounting information; the determinants and consequences of financial reporting quality; empirical market microstructure and, more specifically, the process through which prices incorporate information.

The topics of my current research projects include: how accrual-based managerial discretion affects informational efficiency; accounting-based anomalies in the bond market; the impact of product market competition on the quality of segment level disclosure; how proximity to political power influences earnings management choices.

In addition to participation in a number of professional societies – such as the World Association for Infant Mental Health (WAIMH), the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), and the International Society on Infant Studies (ISIS), Dr. Vallotton is actively involved in several more focused collaborative research and education initiatives on campus, nationally, and internationally. She is a Principal Investigator of the MSU Literacy Achievement Research Center (LARC), a faculty member in the Human Development Initiative in the MSU College of Social Science, a faculty member for the Interdepartmental Graduate Certificate in Infancy and Early Childhood (IGCEIC), and is partnering with MSU Extension to develop a translational research project called Parenting the Preverbal Child. She is also a member of the Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Study Consortium, and the founder of the International Infant Sign Researchers (IISR) group.