Finance & Accounting Group –
Neun Lehrstühle, zwei Center
Über uns
Die Mitglieder der Finance & Accounting Gruppe forschen in verschiedenen Bereichen von Finance und Accounting, darunter Corporate Finance, Investments, Financial Accounting und Taxation. Ihre Forschung wurde in führenden Fachzeitschriften veröffentlicht, darunter im Journal of Financial Economics, im Review of Financial Studies, im Journal of Accounting and Economics, im Accounting Review und in Management Science. Darüber hinaus bietet die Gruppe auch hochwertige Lehre im Bereich Finance und Accounting auf allen Stufen an.
Unsere Lehrstühle & Center
Unsere Fakultätsmitglieder
WHU Research Seminar in Finance & Accounting
- September 12, 2024, Ettore Croci, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
- September 19, 2024, Florian Hett, University of Mainz
- September 26, 2024, Christian Eufinger, IESE Business School
- October 10, 2024, Oscar Stolper, University of Marburg
- November 14, 2024, Marcel Olbert, London Business School
- November 28, 2024, Robert Stoumbos, ESSEC Business School
- December 5, 2024, Yijun Li, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Frühling 2024
- February 1, 2024, Alexandra Niessen-Ruenzi, University of Mannheim, “The Importance of Signaling for Women’s Careers”
- February 22, 2024, Klaus Adam, University of Mannheim, “Distorts Relative Prices: Theory and Evidence”
- February 29, 2024, Andrej Gill, University of Mainz, “Time Inconsistency and Overdraft Use: Evidence from Transaction Data and Behavioral Measurement Experiments”
- March 7, 2024, Farooq Ahmad, SKEMA Business School, “The Innovation Arms Race”
- April 18, 2024, Sibylle Lehmann-Hasemeyer, University of Hohenheim, “Reshaping the Stock Exchange Landscape and its Consequences on Firm Financing: Insights from 120 Years of Going Public in Germany”
- April 25, 2024, Toan Huynh, Queen Mary University of London, “The Real Effects of Brexit on Labor Demand: Evidence from Firm-level Data”
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”
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WHU Accounting and Tax Readings Group
Die Accounting and Tax Readings Group der WHU bietet Doktoranden und Fakultätsangehörigen die Möglichkeit gemeinsam neuste Forschungsergebnisse im Bereich Rechnungslegung und Steuern zu diskutieren und Autoren konstruktives Feedback zu geben. Die Gruppe trifft sich regelmäßig, um den Autoren einen hilfreichen, zeitnahen Austausch bieten zu können.