Accounting Research Seminar

 

Upcoming Seminars

Date

Time / Location

Speaker

Topic

September 17, 2025

17:00 - 18:30
Room 105
Engehaldenstrasse 8

Richard Hatfield, The University of Alabama

The Effect of Upward Feedback Processes on Audit Quality Enhancing Actions
September 24, 2025

17:00 - 18:30
Room 105
Engehaldenstrasse 8

Spencer Anderson, Indiana University

Understanding Risk Exposure and Management: The Impact of Management Intent 
Transparency on Retail Investors’ Assessment of Risk Management Strategies
October 29, 2025

17:00 - 18:30
Room 107
Engehaldenstrasse 8

Brian Gale, University of Washington

To be announced
November 12, 2025

17.00 – 18.30
Room 107
Engehaldenstrasse 8

Razvan Ghita, University of Southern Denmark

To be announced
November 26, 2025

17.00 – 18.30
Room 107
Engehaldenstrasse 8

Florian Elsinger, Erasmus University

To be announced
Dezember 17, 2025

17.00 – 18.30
Room 107
Engehaldenstrasse 8

Grazia Xiong, Utah State University

To be announced
March 11, 2026 To be announced

Timo Vogelsang, Frankfurt School of Finance and Management

To be announced
April 29, 2026 To be announced

Hun Tong Tan, NTU Singapore

To be announced
May 6, 2026 To be announced

Xinyu Zhang, Cornell University

To be announced
May 20, 2026 To be announced

Kathy Rupar-Wang, Georgia Tech

To be announced
May 27, 2026 To be announced

Eldar Maksymov, Arizona State University

To be announced
June 18, 2026 To be announced

Anne Farrell, University of Miami at Ohio

To be announced
February 24, 2027 To be announced

Shannon Garavaglia, University of Pittsburgh

To be announced
May 19, 2027 To be announced

Cassie Mongold, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

To be announced
 

Past Seminars

Date

Speaker

Topic

June 11, 2025

Ivo Tafkov, Georgia State University

Too Much of a Good Thing: When Does Greater Performance Measurement Frequency Lead to Less Learning?

June 4, 2025

Lisa LaViers, Tulane University

The Effects of Human Capital Disclosures on Professional Investors’ Assessments of Firm Risk

May 14, 2025

Ben Commerford, University of Kentucky

Communication Specificity and Auditor Reliance on Human and Non-Human Specialists

May 7, 2025

Blake Steenhoven, Queen's University

Vocal Persuasion in Corporate Disclosure

April 16, 2025

Ben Van Landuyt, University of Arizona

When Does Audit Efficiency Reduce Financial Statement Preparers’ Effort?

April 9, 2025

Marcel van Rinsum, Erasmus University Rotterdam

Cooperation vs. competition in an alliance setting: Is RPI a hindrance or a solution?

March 19, 2025

André Hoppe, KU Leuven

Boardroom Power Play: How Employees Reshape Fixed Cost Commitments

October 23, 2024

Eddy Cardinaels, Tilburg University

Do Algorithms Make Evaluators Harsher?

September 25, 2024

Ryan Sommerfeldt, Birmingham Young University

Do Words Matter? The Effect of Recognition Narrative Specificity and Prosocial Motivation on Work Effort

September 11, 2024

Christoph Feichter, WU Vienna

Time Budget Uncertainty and Creativity

June 12, 2024 McKay Jones, University of Wisconsin-Madison Using Reasonable and Rational Guidance from Management as an Informal Control

May 29, 2024

Adam Presslee, University of Waterloo

The Effort Effects of Employee Recognition Source in Highly Interdependent Group Tasks

May 8, 2024

Jordan Samet, University of Illinois, Gies College of Business

The Effects of Performance Targets on Employee Learning

April 24, 2024

Sebastian Stirnkorb, University of Amsterdam

Activating Auditors’ Willingness to Address Risk: A Field Experiment Focusing Auditors on Cognitive Dissonance and Fraud

June 22, 2023
Willie Choi, University of Wisconsin-Madison Does allowing employees to set their own pay motivate greater effort? A re-examination of potential drivers
May 4, 2023

Feng Yeo, University of South Carolina

Can Firms Hide and Guide the Narrative? The Effects of Social Media Reply Civility and Reply Hiding Behavior on Investors' Judgments

March 9, 2023

Nicole Cade, University of Pittsburgh

The Effect of News-Trade Integration on Investors' Perceptions of News

December 7, 2022

Jeremiah W. Bentley, University of Massachusets Amherst

The Effect of Reporting Frequency and Summary Metrics on Subjective Performance Evaluation
November 16, 2022

Zheng Leitter, Nanyang Technological University

Business Acquisition Disclosures: The Effect of Identifying Intangible Assets in Investors' Judgements
September 14, 2022

Gary Hecht, University of  Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Then Effects of Compensation Mechanism Variation on Team-Members' Effort and Performance
July 28, 2022

Eric Chan, University Texas at Austin

Nonprofit Pay, Market Pay Transparency andGovernance

May 4, 2022

Nick Seybert, Robert H. Smith School of Business

Signaling in Accounting Job Postings: Seductive Language of Narcissists
May 18, 2022

Yao Yu, University of Massachusetts Amherst

How Do Accounting Estimate Favorability and Method Similarity Influence Investors' Judgements of Financial Reporting Quality?

November 3, 2021

Jake Zureich, Tilburg University

The (un)controllability principle: The benefits of holding employees accountable for uncontrollable factors

October 27, 2021

Bei Shi, University of Amsterdam

The Effect of Relative Performance Information Level on Team Performance

October 13, 2021

Evelien Reusen, Erasmus University Rotterdam

When Guidance Backfires: The Effect of Supervisor Communication and Prior Control Choice on Managers’ Cooperation with External Partners

 June 2, 2021

Sara Bormann, Goethe University Frankfurt

 Trade Secret Protection and Firms’ Internal Transparency
 Mai 5, 2021

Eddy Cardinaels, Tilburg University

 Steering Through the Fog: How Color Coding Improves Decision Making in Noisy Environments
 December 2, 2020

Katlijn Haesebrouck, Maastricht University 

The ripple effect: How managers’ affective reactions to manager-level controls have a contagious impact on subordinates

 November 19, 2020

Ryan Guggenmos, Cornell University

The Relationship between Non-GAAP Earnings and Aggressive Estimates in Reported GAAP Numbers
 November 10, 2020

Matthias Mahlendorf, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management 

Budget Expectations gone wrong – Budgeting Biases and its Consequences

 September 29, 2020

Christoph Feichter, WU Vienna

The Impact of Short-term Financial Information on Creativity Assessments for New Product Ideas: A Social Context Perspective

 March 11, 2020

Victor Maas, University of Amsterdam

 The effects of group incentives and transparency on managers' strategic behaviour
 December 4, 2019

Isabella Grabner, WU Vienna

 The complementarity between CSR disclosures and the use of CSR-based performance measures in CEO annual incentive contracts
 September 11, 2019

Karen Sedatole, Emory University

The folly of forecasting: The effects of a disaggregated demand forecasting system on forecast error, forecast positive bias, and inventory levels

 July 16, 2019

Laura Wang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

 Cheating for the Cause: The Effects of Performance-Based Pay on Socially-Oriented Misreporting

 July 3, 2019

Andrew Newman, University of South Carolina

 The effects of performance feedback systems in decentralized workplaces
 June 19, 2019 Jasmin Bol, Tulane University   Status Motives and Agent-to-Agent Information Sharing
 October 31, 2018  Joachim Gassen, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin  Financial Transparency of Private Firms: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment
 September 19, 2018  H. Scott Asay, Assistant Professor of Accounting, The University of Iowa, Tippie College of Business  Consumer Responses to Corporate Tax Planning
September 11, 2018  Karl Schuhmacher, Emory University  Leading by Example: The Effect of Contract Design on the Ability to Lead
September 11, 2018  Michael Wolff & Sebastian Firk, Georg-August Universität Göttingen  The Dark Side of Clawbacks: Clawback Provisions and a Firm’s Strategic Repertoire

April 26, 2018

Dennis Fehrenbacher, Monash University

The influence of subordinate bonuses and supervisor process accountability on supervisors’ attention and performance evaluations

March 14, 2018

Harm Schütt, LMU München

Competition in Financial News Markets and Trading Activity

November 2, 2017

Kristina Rennekamp, Cornell University

Firm Performance, Reporting Goals, and Language Choices in Narrative Disclosures

October 18, 2017

Frank Moers, University of Maastricht

The Effect of Target Setting on Employees’ Investment in Long-Term Productivity Improvements

September 21, 2017

Shankar Venkataraman, Georgia Institute of Technology

Curbing Earnings Management: Experimental Evidence on how Clawbacks Provisions and Board Monitoring Affect Managers’ use of Discretion

June 8, 2017 (In Fribourg)

Anette Mikes, University of Lausanne

Opening the Black Box of Board-Level Control: A Longitudinal Study of Board Accounts, Risk Management and Accounting

May 15, 2017

Bill Tayler, Brigham Young University

Contracts, Controllability, Fairness, and Misreporting

February 22, 2017

Georgios A. Papanastasopoulos, University of Piraeus

Asymmetries in the Persistence and Pricing of Accruals

October 19, 2016

Peter Kroos, University of Amsterdam

Pursuing Business Models and Target Setting: The Interplay between Customized and Uniform Targets

September 20, 2016

Sofia Lourenço, Lisbon School of Economics & Management

What Do Employees Really Want? Preference-Performance Inconsistencies Regarding Work Incentives

May 31, 2016

Michael Wiliamson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

The Role of Incentives in Sustaining High-Creativity Production

May 19, 2016

Brian White, University of Texas at Austin

Linked Financial Statement Presentation, Causal Reasoning and Risk Assessments

May 4, 2016

Jeffrey Hales, Georgia Institute of Technology

Positive and Negative Effects of Disaggregated Reporting: An Experimental Examination of Managerial Opportunism and Capital Investment

April 13, 2016

Marcel von Rinsum, Erasmus University of Rotterdam

How Accountability Influences Investment Decision Quality in a Balanced Scorecard Setting: an Eye-tracking Experiment

March 23, 2016 (In Fribourg)

Lukas Roth, University of Alberta

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March 16, 2016

Max Hewitt, Eller College of Management, University of Arizona

How Suspicions of the Method of Earnings Management and its Underlying Motive Affect Investors' Trust in Managers and Willingness to Invest in the Firm

February 3, 2016

Michael Stich, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

Does Sustainability Assurance Improve Managerial Investement Decisions?

September 2, 2015

Steven Kachelmeier, University of Texas

Prompting the Benefit of the Doubt: The Joint Effects of Auditor Independence and Measurement Uncertainty on Audit Adjustments

June 12, 2015

Jeremy Doughit, University of Arizona

The Effect of Endogenous Contract Selection on Budgetary Slack

May 5, 2015 *

Huaxiang Yin, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

The Role of the Employees’ Knowledge of Manager Behavior and Manager Discretion

April 29, 2015 *

Ivo Tafkov, Georgia State University, Atlanta

Managerial Discretion over Relative Performance Information Provision: Implications for Manager and Employee Behavior

March 10, 2015

Jochen Bigus, Free University of Berlin

Bank relationships and private firms’ financial reporting opacity

January 20, 2015 *

James Hesford, Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne

Do Higher Wages Pay for Themselves? An Intra-firm Test of the Effect of Wages on Employee Performance

November 27, 2014 *

Baohua Xin, University of Toronto

Real Effects of Accounting Uniformity: Implications of Higher-Order Beliefs

Organizing chairs:

Prof. Dr. Markus C. Arnold, Prof. Dr. Michael Burkert, Prof. Alexis H. Kunz, Prof. Dr. Franck Missonier-Piera

* In conjunction with EoMS