Daniela De la Parra
I am an Assistant Professor of Accounting at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. My research examines the production and consequences of corporate information. I use unstructured data—such as text and speech—to explore economic questions about the qualitative aspects of corporate disclosure. I am particularly passionate about applying linguistics and machine-learning methods to bring structure to corporate data for capital-market analysis.
I graduated from Rice University with a Ph.D. in Accounting in May, 2021. Before joining the Ph.D. program at Rice, I earned a full chess scholarship to attend the University of Texas at Brownsville, where I received my Bachelor’s Degree with a double major in Accounting and in Finance and graduated Summa Cum Laude. I was a professional chess player for 12 years and I hold the FIDE title of Woman International Master in chess.
News
| Mar 21, 2023 |
Great news: my paper “Racial Diversity Exposure and Firm Responses Following the Murder of George Floyd”, coauthored with Karthik Balakrishnan, Rafael Copat, and K. Ramesh, has been accepted at the Journal of Accounting Research! 
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| Apr 15, 2022 |
 I will be presenting my working paper “Social Unrest as an Impetus for Racial Diversity” at the JAR Conference. Watch the live presentation here!
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| Dec 30, 2020 |
Click here to see how I used Machine Learning in my Job Market Paper! 
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| Nov 10, 2020 | I will be presenting my working paper “Protecting Forward Looking Statements” at FARS 2021 |