Finance & Accounting Group –
Neun Lehrstühle, zwei Center

Herbst 2023

• September 9, 2023, Kasper Meisner Nielsen, Copenhagen Business School, “Rich and Responsible? The Rise of Responsible Investors”
• September 14, 2023, Laurent Weill, University of Strasbourg, “Do Not Expect Cheaper Loan Before Elections: European Evidence”
• September 21, 2023, Christoph Merkle, Aarhus University, “The Affect Heuristic and Financial Expectations: Risk, Return, and ESG”
• September 28, 2023, Florian Weigert, University of Neuchatel, “Hedge Funds and the Positive Idiosyncratic Volatility Effect”
• October 12, 2023, Alessandro Previtero, Indiana University, “Smart(Phone) Investing? An Analysis of New Technologies and Trading Behavior”
• October 26, 2023, Yigitcan Karabulut, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, “Business Education and Portfolio Returns”

Frühling 2023

• January 25, 2023, Michael Haliassos, Goethe University Frankfurt, “Wealth Inequality: Opportunity or Unfairness”
• February 23, 2023, Guosong Xu, Rotterdam School of Management, “Involuntarily green? Corporate donations to politicians and their votes on environmental legislation”
• March 9, 2023, Martin Brown, Study Center Gerzensee/University St. Gallen, “Consumer Adoption of Financial Technology: Contactless Card Payments during the COVID-19 Pandemic”
• March 16, 2023, Falko Fecht, Deutsche Bundesbank, “Financial fragility in open-ended mutual funds: the role of liquidity management tools”
• March 30, 2023, Felix Fattinger, WU Vienna, “Trading Complex Risks”

Herbst 2022

• September 6, 2022, Zoran Filipovic, University Paris Dauphine, “The Intangibles Song in Takeover Announcements: Good Tempo, Hollow Tune”
• September 20, 2022, Rik Frehen, Tilburg University, “How harmful is insider trading for outsiders? Evidence from the eighteenth century”
• September 27, 2022, Christoph Herpfer, Emory University, “The Hidden Costs of Government Shutdowns”
• October 4, 2022, Yannis Tsalavoutas, University of Glasgow, “R&D tax incentives and R&D investment efficiency: International Evidence”

Frühling 2022

• April 12, 2022, Wolfgang Drobetz, University of Hamburg, “Foreign Bias in Institutional Portfolio Allocation: The Role of Social Trust”
• April 5, 2022, Vesa Pursiainen, University of St. Gallen, “Reputational Costs of Litigation”

Herbst 2021

• October 5, 2021, Linus Siming, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, “Bank Green Bonds”
• September 28, 2021, Paul Momtaz, Goethe University Frankfurt, “Revisiting the Private Equity Discount: Evidence from SEC’s shortening of the mandatory holding period of restricted PIPE securities”
• September 21, 2021, Fabio Braggion, Tilburg University, “Credit Provision and Stock Trading: Evidence from the South Sea Bubble”

Frühling 2021

• March 16, 2021, Joey Engelberg, University of California San Diego, “Echo Chambers”
• February 9, 2021, Elisabeth Kempf, University of Chicago, “Fifty Shades of QE: Conflicts of Interest in Economic Research”

Herbst 2020

• September 15, 2020, Matthias Muck, University of Bamberg, “Smile Construction on FX Option Markets Using Garman-Kohlhagen Deltas and Implied Volatilities”
• September 29, 2020, Alberto Manconi, Bocconi University, “Are Star Firms Also Better Law Firms?”

Frühling 2020

• February 4, 2020, Stefan Ruenzi, University of Mannheim, “The Impact of Role Models on Women’s Self-selection in Competitive Environments”
• February 11, 2020, Oliver Spalt, University of Mannheim, “Litigating Innovation: Evidence from Securities Class Action Lawsuits”
• March 3, 2020, Christine Laudenbach, Goethe University Frankfurt, “Do Women Get Worse Financial Advice?”
• April 14, 2020, Steffen Meyer, University of Southern Denmark, “Same banks, same clients but different pricing: How do flat-fees for mutual funds affect retail investor portfolios?”

Herbst 2019

• August 22, 2019, Yakov Amihud, New York University, “Liquidity and asset pricing II”
• September 10, 2019, Markus Schmid, University St. Gallen, “As California goes, so goes the nation? Gender quotas and the legislation of non-economic values”
• September 17, 2019, Thomas Lambert, Rotterdam School of Management, “Crowdfunding Dynamics”
• September 24, 2019, Eli Fich, Drexel University, “Class Action Spillover Effects on Joint Venture Partners”
• October 22, 2019, Yinggang Zhou, Xiamen University, “Return and volatility transmission between the Chinese and international oil futures markets”
• November 19, 2019, Shantanu Banerjee, Lancester University, “Predatory Advertising, Financial Fraud, and Leverage”
• November 26, 2019, Christoph Schneider, Tilburg University, “Mergers and Acquisitions and the reallocation of labour”
• December 03, 2019, Tereza Tykvová, University of Hohenheim, “Are Private Equity Investments Bad News for Peers?”

Frühling 2019

• February 19, 2019, Jasmin Gider, Tilburg University, “The Dollar Profits to Insider Trading”
• March 12, 2019, Alessia de Stefani, Danmarks Nationalbank, “Real Effects on Relaxing Financial Constraints for Homeowners: Evidence from Danish Firms”
• April 9, 2019, Gonul Colak, Hanken School of Economics, “Commitment or constraint? The effect of loan covenants on M&A activity”

Herbst 2018

• August 18, 2018, Yakov Amihud, New York University, “Liquidity spillovers”
• September 11, 2018, Dimitris Andriosopoulos, University of Strathclyde, “Overpayment, Financial Distress and Investor Horizons”
• September 18, 2018, Jean-Gabriel Cousin, University of Lille, “Stock market driven acquisitions? Is there really an association between acquirer equity overvaluation and full stock-swaps in M&A transactions?”
• September 25, 2018, Diane Pierret, University of Lausanne, “Stressed Banks”
• October 23, 2018, Eliezer Fich, Drexel University, “Shareholder Litigation and the Information Environment”
• October 29, 2018, Michael Weber, University of Chicago, “Human Frictions in the Transmission of Economic Policy”
• November 6, 2018, Andrey Golubov, University of Toronto, “The run-up in acquirer returns”
• November 13, 2018, Eric de Bodt, University of Lille, “Coporate Rivalry and Return Comovement”

Frühling 2018

• January 23, 2018, Paul Smeets, Maastricht University, “Let’s Invite the Women: Women Reduce Overconfidence in Groups”
• February 6, 2018, Amedeo De Cesari, University of Manchester, “Employment Protection and Share Repurchases: Evidence from Wrongful Discharge Laws”
• March 13, 2018, David Florysiak, University of Southern Denmark, “An Autopsy of a Total Stock Market Failure”
• March 20, 2018, Markku Kaustia, Aalto University, “Hidden Investment Beliefs”
• April 10, 2018, Bernard Black, Northwestern University, “The Trouble with Instruments: Re-examining Shock-IV Designs”
• April 17, 2018, Aksel Mjøs, Norwegian School of Economics, “Credit supply shocks, financial constraints and investments for small and medium-sized firms”
• April 24, 2018, Daniel Ferreira, London School of Economics, “Board Quotas and Director-Firm Matching”

Herbst 2017

• August 28, 2017, Ralf Elsas, LMU, “The Dark Side of Short Selling”
• August 29, 2017, Yakov Amihud, New York University, “Liquidity, Investment & Production”
• September 5, 2017, Audra Boone, Texas Christian University, “Political Uncertainty and Firm Disclosure”
• November 28, 2017, Marius A. Zoican, University Paris Dauphine, “Smart Settlement”
• December 5, 2017, Farzad Saidi, Stockholm School of Economics, “Life Below Zero: Bank Lending Under Negative Policy Rates”
• December 10, 2017, Ulf von Lilienfeld-Toal, University of Luxembourg, “Identifying the Benefits from Home Ownership: A Swedish Experiment”

Frühling 2017

• February 21, 2017, Igor Goncharov, Lancaster University, “Do central banks try to avoid losses? Why? And does it matter for policy?”
• March 7, 2017, Christodoulos Louca, Cyprus University of Technology, “IPO Allocations and New Mutual Funds”
• March 14, 2017, Philipp Schuster, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, “Volume Dependent Bond Liquidity Measures and Their Asset Pricing Implications”
• March 21, 2017, Paul Guest, University of Surrey, “Board Ethnic Diversity and Monitoring”
• March 28, 2017, Cláudia Custódio, Imperial College Business School, “Compensation and Real Estate Prices”
• April 25, 2017, Denis Gromb, HEC Paris, “The Paradox of Pledgeability”

Herbst 2016

• August 30, 2016, Yakov Amihud, New York University, “Governance and Company Value”
• September 6, 2016, Raghavendra Rau, University of Cambridge, “Can Serial Acquirers be profiled?”
• September 13, 2016, Eliezer Fich, Drexel University, “Advertising, Attention, and Acquisition Returns”
• September 27, 2016, Aurore Burietz, IESEG School of Management, “Europe versus the U.S.: A New Look at the Syndicated Loan Pricing Puzzle”
• October 25, 2016, Martin Schmalz, University of Michigan, “Common Ownership, Competition, and Top Management Incentives”
• November 8, 2016, Antonio Gledson de Carvalho, FGV, “Dotcom Bubble and Underpricing: Conjecture and Evidence”
• November 22, 2016, Astrid Schornick, INSEAD, “Household Investments, limited Participation and Equity Premia when Wealth matters”
• November 29, 2016, Alexander Hillert, Goethe University Frankfurt, “Mutual Fund Shareholder Letters: Flows, Performance, and Managerial Behavior”

Herbst 2023

• October 20, 2023, Tim Martens, Bocconi University, “Do Firms Listen to Social Media Analysts? Evidence from Seeking Alpha”
• December 1, 2023, Inga Hardeck, University of Regensburg, “Does Public Tax Sustainability Disclosure Deter Corporate Tax Avoidance? Evidence from GRI 207 Reporting”
• December 15, 2023, Christoph Sextroh, Tilburg University, “Financial Dissemination and Employee Satisfaction: Evidence from Corporate Layoffs”
• January 12, 2024, Harald Amberger, WU Vienna, “The Economic Effects of Introducing a Cash Flow Tax: Empirical Evidence”

Frühling 2023

• April 14, 2023, Nathan Goldman, North Carolina State University, “Executive Compensation and Income Tax Rate Progression”
• June 9, 2023, Paul Demere, University of Georgia, “Using Narrative Disclosures to Understand Tax Outcomes”
• June 23, 2023, Jeremy Bentley, University of Massachusetts Amherst – Isenberg School of Management, “The “What”, “How”, and “Why” of Earnings Announcement Disclosures and Formatting”

Frühling 2022

• March 21, 2022, Rebecca Lester, Stanford University, “Tax Subsidy Information and Local Economic Effects”
• April 4, 2022, Stephen Glaeser, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, “Misreporting of ESG Information”
• April 13, 2022, Benjamin Yost, Boston College, “Do Tax-Based Proprietary Costs Discourage Public Listing? Evidence from FIN 48“

Frühling 2020

• January 10, 2020, Maria Loumioti, Naveen Jindal School of Management, “Direct Lending: The Determinants, Characteristics and Performance of Direct Loans”
• March 6, 2020, Jaron Wilde, University of Iowa, “Beyond Borders: Supergovernment Monitoring and Tax Enforcement”

Herbst 2019

• September 27, 2019, Miguel Duro, IESE Business School University of Navarra, “Debiasing the Measurement of Conditional Conservatism”
• October 18, 2019, Annelies Renders, Maastricht University, “Do Changes in Financial Reporting Standards Improve Capital Allocational Efficiency? An Industry-Focused Analysis”
• October 25, 2019, Dirk Schindler, Erasmus University Rotterdam, “Income Shifting and Management Incentives”
• November 8, 2019, Jacco Wielhouwer, VU Amsterdam, “The effect of tax rates and tariffs on transfer pricing components”
• November 29, 2019, Dominika Langenmayr, KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, “Trading Offshore: Evidence on Banks' Tax Avoidance”
• December 6, 2019, Doris Merkl-Davies, Bangor Business School, “Does voluntary tax reporting result in increased tax transparency? The case of Vodafone”

Frühling 2019

• January 25, 2019, Karthik Ramanna, University of Oxford, “The social responsibility of business is to increase its profits; but not for the reason you think”
• February 15, 2019, Karthik Balakrishnan, London Business School, “Symmetric Ignorance is Bliss: When does Transparency Reduce Liquidity?”
• March 1, 2019, Michele Fabrizi, University of Padova, “Criminal Firms and Peer Firm Tax Avoidance: Evidence from a Natural Experiment”
• March 8, 2019, Pietro Bonetti, IESE Business School, “Disclosure Regulation and Corporate Acquisitions”
• May 10, 2019, David Windisch, University of Graz, “Measuring Accounting Comparability”

Herbst 2018

• September 28, 2018, Aytekin Ertan, London Business School, “Financial Intermediation through Financial Disintermediation: Evidence from the ECB Corporate Sector Purchase Programme“
• October 5, 2018, Amir Amel-Zadeh, University of Oxford, “Are All Insider Sales Created Equal?
  Evidence from Form 4 Footnote Disclosures”
• November 23, 2018, Robert Ullmann, University of Augsburg, “Norderfriedrichskoog! Tax Havens, Tax Competition and the Introduction of a Minimum Tax Rate”

Frühling 2018

• February 2, 2018, Stefano Cascino, London School of Economics, “Labor market effects of spatial licensing requirements: Evidence from CPA mobility”
• March 9, 2018, Jochen Pierk, Erasmus University Rotterdam, „Determinants and consequences of group and component auditor alignment”
• April 6, 2018, Frank Ecker, Frankfurt School of Finance and Management, “Payoffs to Aggressivness”
• April 20, 2018, Thomas Gilliam, IE Business School Madrid, “Detecting Real Activities Manipulation”
• June 8, 2018, Harry Huizinga, Tilburg University, “Foreign Banks and International Transmission of Monetary Policy: Evidence from the Syndicated Loan Market”
• June 15, 2018, Volkan Muslu, University of Houston, “How do Firms changes Investments based on MD&A disclosures of peer firm”

Herbst 2017

• September 8, 2017, Dan Amiran, Columbia Business School, “Do executive compensation contracts maximize firm value? Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment”
• October 13, 2017, Daniel Beneish, University of Indiana, “Explaining Merger Wealth Effects using Allocated Merger Prices”
• October 26, 2017, Roni Michaely, Cornell University, “Are U.S. Industries Becoming More Concentrated?”
• October 27, 2017, Zoltan Novotny-Farkas, Lancaster University, “Are Level 3 fair value gains and losses informative? Evidence from FAS 157 rollforward disclosures”
• November 17, 2017, Christian Laux, WU Vienna, “Accounting and the Financial Crisis: The real problems and Challenges (Going Forward)”
• November 24, 2017, Harm Schütt, LMU, “Competition in Financial News Markets and Trading Activity”
• December 8, 2017, Luc Paugam, HEC Paris, “Enforcement and Cash Flow Management to Delay Goodwill Impairments under IFRS”

Frühling 2017

• January 13, 2017, Johannes Voget, University of Mannheim, “International Taxation and Productivity Effects of M&As”
• February 10, 2017, Niamh Brennan, Quinn School of Business, “A Theoretical Framework of external Accounting Communication: Research Perspectives, Traditions, and Theories”
• March 23, 2017, Luzi Hail, Wharton School, “Do Risk Disclosures Matter When It Counts? Evidence from the Swiss Franc Shock”
• March 31, 2017, Christina Dargenidou, University of Exeter, “Real activities management to prevent fiscal deficits: Evidence from municipal corporations”
• April 21, 2017, Philip Joos, University of Tilburg, “How do Analysts Process Managerial Earnings Forecasts? An Experimental Study Using Eye- Tracking Technology”
• April 28, 2017, Paul André, HEC Lausanne, „Business group membership and IFRS reporting: The effect of group financing and investing incentives”
• June 2, 2017, Alfred Wagenhofer, University of Graz, “Effects of Increasing Enforcement on Firm Value and Financial Reporting Quality”
• June 23, 2017, Shivaram Rajgopal, GSB Columbia, “Towards a Financial Statement Based Approach to Modeling Systemic Risk in Insurance and Banking”
• June 30, 2017, Saverio Bozzolan, LUISS University Rome, “Consistency, in Guidance Characteristics”

Herbst 2016

• September 7, 2016, Jannis Bischof, University of Mannheim, “Why Did Politicians Blame Fair Value Accounting during the Financial Crisis? The Role of Conservative Ideology and Special Interests”
• October 13, 2016, Scott Dyreng, Duke University, “Trade-offs in the Repatriation of Foreigns Earnings”
• November 11, 2016, Gaizka Ormazabal, IESE Business School, “The Effect of SEC’s Public Disclosure of its Oversight Actions
• November 25, 2016, Michael Overesch, University of Cologne, “Capital Market Reaction to Tax Avoidance: Evidence from LuxLeaks”
• December 2, 2016, Juha- Pekka Kallunki, University of Oulu, “Do Smarter Auditors Deliver Better Audit Qualitiy? – Archival Evidence Based on Unique IQ Data on Swedish Auditors”