John Gallemore

Research Scholar, UNC Tax Center
Email: john_gallemore@kenan-flagler.unc.edu

John Gallemore studies how firms’ economic and financial reporting behavior are shaped by corporate tax policy and enforcement.

His research has been published in top accounting journals, such as the Journal of Accounting & Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, and Contemporary Accounting Research. His research and expertise has been featured by media outlets such as the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, and Bloomberg.

Professor Gallemore teaches Strategic Cost Analysis and Performance Evaluation in the full-time MBA program.

Prior to joining UNC Kenan-Flagler, he was on the faculty at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, where he won the Emory Williams Award for Teaching Excellence, the school-wide teaching award decided by students across all MBA programs. He was also named one of Poets & Quants “Best 40 Under 40” business school professors.

Professor Gallemore received his Ph.D. in Accounting, Master’s in Business Administration (where he finished first in his class), B.S. in Business Administration, and B.A. in Political Science all from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Related Publications

Tax Planning Knowledge Diffusion via the Labor Market

This paper examines the extent to which the labor market facilitates the diffusion of tax planning knowledge across firms. Using a novel dataset of tax department employee movements between S&P 1500 firms, the researchers find that firms experience an increase in their tax planning after hiring a tax employee from a tax aggressive firm. This finding is robust to various research designs and specifications.
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New UNC tax professor excited to come home

During the seven years John Gallemore taught at the University of Chicago, he worked with some Nobel Prize winners and guessed which colleagues were most likely to win the prize down the road. But his love for his home state prompted him to accept an offer to return to UNC Chapel Hill this fall as an associate professor of accounting.
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