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Previous seminars

2022-2023

Accounting Research Forums

Title: What If There Were No Annual Reports? Evidence from the Great Postal Strike of 1970

Date: Monday 3 October, 10:30 (GMT)

Location: MAR 1.06

Speaker: Mohan Venkatachalam (Duke University)

Title: Moral Accounting

Date: Thursday 8 December, 15:00 (GMT)

Location: Online

Speaker: Robert J. Bloomfield (Cornell University)

Title: Do Mafia Ties Matter? Accountants with Mafia Connections, and the Quality of their Work as Monitors in the 'Clean' Economy

Date: Wednesday 3 May, 10:30 (GMT)

Location: MAR 1.06

Speaker: Jere R. Francis (Maastricht University and University of Missouri)

Title: tba

Date: Thursday 11 May, 10:30 (GMT)

Location: MAR 1.06

Speaker: Greg Miller (Michigan Ross)

Accounting, Organisations and Institutions Seminars

Title: Gamification in Platform Organizing: The orchestration of affective attachments in everyday life

Date: Wednesday 16 November, 14:30 (GMT)

Location: MAR 3.20

Speaker: Matteo Ronzani (Alliance Manchester Business School)

Title: Protocol infrastructure for management control systems - flexibility and integration through digital dashboards

Date: Thursday 1 December, 10:30 (GMT)

Location: MAR 3.20

Speaker: Lukas Lohlein (WHU)

Title: Infrastructure, Ontology and meaning: The Endogenous development of Economic Ideas

Date: Wednesday 8 March, 15:00 (GMT)

Location: MAR 1.06

Speaker: David Pinzur (London School of Economics)

Title: tba 

Date: Wednesday 17 May, 15:00 (GMT)

Location: MAR 3.20

Speaker: Maude Paré-Plante (Université Laval)

Title: Hype cycles of the digital economy

Date: Wednesday 7 June, 15:00 (GMT)

Location: MAR 3.20

Speaker: Neil Pollock (Edinburgh University Business School)


 

Economics of Accounting Seminars

 

Title: Rethinking the cash conversion cycle

Date: Thursday 8 September, 10:30 (GMT)

Location: MAR 1.06

Speaker: Stephannie Larocque (Mendoza College)

Title: Diversity Washing

Location: MAR 1.06

Date: Thursday 20 October, 10:30 (GMT)

Speaker: Edward Watts (Yale)

Title: Simultaneous Information Releases and Capital Market Feedback: Evidence from Patent Tuesdays

Date: Thursday 17 November, 10:30 (GMT)

Location: MAR 1.06

Speaker: Tim Martens (Bocconi University) 

Title: Can Controls Curb Political Capture? Evidence From Patenting

Location: MAR 1.06

Date: Thursday 24 November, 10:30 (GMT)

Speaker: Wanli Zhao (Bocconi University)

Title: Is the voice of institutional and individual investors relevant for corporate disclosures? Evidence from a Topic Modelling Technique*

Location: MAR 1.06

Date: Thursday 1 December, 10:30 (GMT)

Speaker: Andreea Moraru-Arfire (Essec Business School)

Title: "503 Service Unavailable": When Acquiring Information Goes Wrong

Location: MAR 1.06

Date: Thursday 23 February, 10:30 (GMT)

Speaker: Maximilian Müller (University of Cologne)

Title: Did Healthcare-Sector Insiders Capitalize on COVID-19?

Location: MAR 1.06

Date: Thursday 2 March, 10:30 (GMT)

Speaker: Patrick Ryu (University of Manchester)

Title: Human and Intellectual Capital Spending Efficiency and ESG Efficacy

Location: Zoom

Date: Thursday 9 March, 10:30 (GMT)

Speaker: Alan Jagolinzer (Judge Business School)

Title: Understanding the Value of DEI Programs: Perspectives from Corporate Leadership

Location: MAR 1.06

Date: Wednesday 15 March, 10:30 (GMT)

Speaker: Aiyesha Dey (Harvard Business School)

Title: Director reputation effects of environmental and social failures

Location: MAR 1.06

Date: Thursday 30 March, 10:30 (GMT)

Speaker: Yonca Ertimur (Leeds School of Business)

Title: Does Monetary Policy Transparency Reduce the Price Sensitivity of Publicly Traded Firms' Investment?

Location: MAR 1.06

Date: Thursday 18 May, 10:30 (GMT)

Speaker: Oliver Binz (INSEAD)

Title: tba

Location: MAR 1.06

Date: Thursday 1 June, 10:30 (GMT)

Speaker: Delphine Samuels (Chicago Booth)

Title: tba

Location: MAR 1.06

Date: Thursday 8 June, 10:30 (GMT)

Speaker: Jung Ho Choi (Stanford School of Business)


 

2021-2022

Accounting Research Forums

Title: The Strategic Choice of Peers in M&A Valuations

Date: Thursday 18 November, 15:00 (GMT)

Online Seminar

Speaker: Rodrigo Verdi (MIT)

 

Title: Failure to Adapt: how the Active Fund Management Industry is responding to the rise of Passive Investing

Date: Thursday 25 November, 15:00 (GMT)

Online Seminar

Speaker: Crawford Spence (KCL)

 

Title: Failure to Adapt: how the Active Fund Management Industry is responding to the rise of Passive Investing

Date: Thursday 25 November, 15:00 (GMT)

Online Seminar

Speaker: Crawford Spence (KCL)

 

Title: The Effect of Patent Disclosure Quality on Innovation

Date: Thursday 9 June, 15:00 (GMT)

Online Seminar

Speaker: Mark Lang (University of North Carolina)

 

Accounting, Organisations and Institutions Seminars

Title: Finance and Paranoia

Date: Wednesday 27 October, 15:00 (GMT)

Online Seminar

Speaker: Fabian Muniesa (CSI-Mines ParisTech)

 

Title: Objects, things, and infrastructures of accounting and referentiality

Date: Wednesday 17 November, 15:00 (GMT)

Online Seminar

Speaker: Jan Mouritsen (Copenhagen Business School)

 

Title: Two churches and two prayerhouses: Cultural heritage as a singularity at Roşia Montană mining site

Date: Wednesday 16 March, 14:00 (GMT)

Online Seminar

Speaker: Eija Vinnari (Tampere University)

 

Title: The dramaturgy of inscriptions in interactions: Scripts, performances and performativity in the process of Performance Measurement Systems Development

Date: Wednesday 25 May, 15:00 (GMT)

Location: Zoom/MAR 3.20 (Hybrid Session)

Speaker: Chiara Bottausci (University of Bristol)

Title: tba

Date: Wednesday 8 June, 15:00 (GMT)

Location: Zoom/MAR 3.20 (Hybrid Session)

Speaker: John-Christopher Spender (Rutgers Business School)

 

Economics of Accounting Seminars

 Title: The Monitoring Role of Social Media: Evidence from the Introduction of 3G Internet

Date: Thursday 23 September, 15:00 (GMT)

Online Seminar

Speaker: Jonas Heese (Harvard Business School)

 

Title: Disturbing the quiet life? Competition, incentives, and performance target difficulty

Date: Thursday 30 September, 17:00 (GMT)

Online Seminar

Speaker: Michael Matejka (Arizona State University

 

Title: Disturbing the quiet life? Competition, incentives, and performance target difficulty

Date: Thursday 30 September, 17:00 (GMT)

Online Seminar

Speaker: Michael Matejka (Arizona State University

 

 

Title: Why Do Institutional Investors Request Information on CO2 emissions?

Date: Thursday 14 October, 15:00 (GMT)

Online Seminar

Speaker: Gaizka Ormazabal (IESE)

 

Title: Forward-Looking Information in Bank Reporting

Date: Thursday 28 October, 15:00 (GMT)

Online Seminar

Speaker: Jannis Bischof (University of Mannheim)

 

Title: Firm-level Climate Change Exposure

Date: Thursday 4 November, 15:00 (GMT)

Online Seminar

Speaker: Laurence van Lent (Frankfurt School)

 

Title: Can CEO facial expression generate disagreement? Incongruent emotions during earnings-related interviews and analyst response

Date: Thursday 24 February, 17:00 (GMT)

Online Seminar

Speaker: Elizabeth Blankespoor (University of Washington)

 Title: Measuring the Threat of Exit

Date: Thursday 10 March, 17:00 (GMT)

Online Seminar

Speaker: Andrea Pawliczek (University of Colorado)

 

Title: Do Commercial Ties Influence ESG Ratings? Evidence from Moody's and S&P

Date: Thursday 17 March, 10:00 (GMT)

Online Seminar

Speaker: Yun Lou (Singapore Management University)

 

Title: Did the Paycheck Protection Program Hit The Target?

Date: Thursday 24 March, 15:00 (GMT)

Online Seminar

Speaker: João Granja (University of Chicago)

 

Title: Outliers and Robust Inference in Archival Accounting Research

Date: Thursday 19 May, 10:30 (GMT)

Location: MAR.1.06

Speaker: David Veenman (University of Amsterdam)

 

Title: Uneven Regualtion and Economic Reallocation: Evidence from Transparency Regulation

Date: Thursday 26 May, 10:30 (GMT)

Location: MAR.1.06

Speaker: Matthias Breuer (Columbia University)

 

2020-2021

Accounting Research Forums

Accounting, Organisation and Institutions Seminars

Economics of Accounting Seminars

 

Noncompliance with SEC regulations: Evidence from timely loan disclosures

Date: Thursday 29 October, 17:00pm

Online Seminar

Speaker: Judson Caskey, UCLA

 

Core Earnings: New Data and Evidence

Date: Thursday 12 November, 15:00pm

Online Seminar

Speaker: Charles Wang, Harvard Business School

 

Accounting Measurement Intensity

Date: Thursday 3 December, 15:00pm

Online Seminar

Speaker: Valeri Nikolaev, Chicago Booth

 

Liquidity, Trade, and Investor-Identity Dislosure

Date: Thursday 11 March, 15:00pm

Online Seminar

Speaker: Christina Zhu, The Wharton School

 

Financial Reporting and Employee Voluntary Turnover Risk

Date: Thursday 13 May, 15:00pm

Online Seminar

Speaker: Ed deHaan, University of Washington

 

The Long-Term Consequences of Short-Term Incentives

Date: Thursday 10 June, 15:00pm

Online Seminar

Speaker: Vivian Fang, University of Minnesota

 

 

2019 - 2020

Accounting Research Forums

 

Self-segregation, Mortality Salience, and Labor Movement: the 9/11 Shock

Date: Thursday 10 October, 10:30am

Location: OLD 3.21, 3rd Floor, OLD Building

Speaker: Gilles Hilary, Georgetown University

 

Accounting, Organisations and Institutions Seminars

 

Just Fines: Exponential Discounting, Church Landlords, and Fair Algorithms, c.1628

Date: Tuesday 15 October, 10:30am

Location: CON.7.05, 7th Floor, Connaught House

Speaker: William Deringer, MIT

 

Institutionalizing the Logic of Quantification

Date: Tuesday 18 February, 13:00pm

Location: KGS.1.02, 1st Floor, Kingsway House

Speaker: Michael Sauder, MIT

 

Economics of Accounting Seminars

 

Broker Trader Volume: A Conflict of Interest

Date: Thursday 12 September, 10:30am

Location: CON.7.05, 7th Floor, Connaught House

Speaker: Devin Shanthikumar, UCI

 

Bayesian Manipulation, Incentive Contracting, and Performance Manipulation

Date: Thursday 03 October, 10:30am

Location: CON.7.05, 7th Floor, Connaught House

Speaker: Beatrice Michaeli, UCLA

 

Earnings Quality on The Street

Date: Thursday 17 October, 10:30am

Location: OLD 3.21, 3rd Floor, OLD Building

Speaker: Urooj Khan, Columbia School of Business

 

Using Machine Learning to Detect Misstatements

Date: Thursday 24 October, 10:30am

Location: OLD 3.21, 3rd Floor, OLD Building

Speaker: Jeremy Bertomeu, University of California

 

Financial Shocks and Corporate Investment Activity: The Role of Financial Covenants

Date: Thursday 31 October, 10:30am

Location: OLD 3.21, 3rd Floor, OLD Building

Speaker: Daniele Macciocchi, University of Utah

 

Interested Intermediaries

Date: Thursday 21 November, 10:30am

Location: OLD 3.21, 3rd Floor, OLD Building

Speaker: Henry Friedman, University of California

 

Insights into Auditor Public Oversight Boards: Whether, How and Why they "Work"

Date: Thursday 5 December, 10:30am

Location: OLD 3.21, 3rd Floor, OLD Building

Speaker: Nemit Shroff, MIT

 

Supervisor Training, Informal Authority, and Financial Misconduct

Date: Thursday 27 February, 10:30am

Location: OLD 3.21, 3rd Floor, OLD Building

Speaker: Andrew Sutherland, MIT

 

2018 - 2019

Accounting Research Forums


Issues in Cost Accounting

Date: Thursday 8 November, 10:30am

Location: OLD 3.21, Third Floor, OLD Building

Speaker: Christopher Ittner, University of Pennsylvania

 

Accounting, Organisations and Institutions Seminars


"Vile Ways of Traffic" - Finance, Impropriety, and Risk in Eighteenth-Century Political Economy

Date: Wednesday 28 November, 15:00pm

Location: LRB.5.505, Basement, Lincolns Inns Fields

Speaker: Emily Nacol, University of Toronto

Enticing the "will to perform", Ranking and Competitions in the Market for Virtue

Date: Wednesday 27 February, 15:00pm

Location: OLD 3.21, Third Floor, OLD Building

Speaker: Rita Samiolo, King's College London

Rethinking Gaming: The Ethical Work of Optimization in Web Search Engines

Date: Thursday 28 March, 15:00pm

Location: OLD 3.21, Third Floor, OLD Building

Speaker: Malte Ziewitz, Cornell University

 

Financial Accounting Seminars


Debt Financing and Collateral: The Role of Fair-Value Adjustments

Date: Thursday 27 September, 10:30am

Location: OLD 3.21, Third Floor, OLD Building

Speaker: Florin Vasvari, London Business School

The Regulatory Observer Effect: Evidence from SEC Investigations

Date: Thursday 4 October, 10:30am

Location: 32L.B.11, Basement, 32 Lincoln Inns Fields

Speaker: Zahn Bozanic, Ohio State University

Analysts' Estimates of Cost of Equity Capital

Date: Thursday 18 October, 10:30am

Location: OLD 3.21, Third Floor, OLD Building

Speaker: Lakshmanan Shivakumar, London Business School

The Impact of the CEO's personal narcicissism on non-GAAP Earnings

Date: Thursday 29 November, 10:30am

Location: OLD 3.21, Third Floor, OLD Building

Speaker: Mark Soliman, USC Marshall

Discretionary Disclosure and Manager Horizon: Evidence from Patenting

Date: Thursday 17 January, 10:30am

Location: OLD 3.21, Third Floor, OLD Building

Speaker: Jeremy Michels, University of Pennsylvania

Examining syndicated loans for publicly traded U.S. Firms

Date: Thursday 14 February, 10:30am

Location: OLD 3.21, Third Floor, OLD Building

Speaker: Adnan Isin, Exeter Business School

Disclosure Regulation and Corporate Acquisitions 

Date: Thursday 7 March, 10:30am

Location: OLD 3.21, Third Floor, OLD Building

Speaker: Miguel Duro, IESE Business School

The Effect of Foreign Corruption Regulation on Corrupt Countries

Date: Thursday 14 March, 10:30am

Location: CON.7.05, 7th Floor, Connaught House

Speaker: Thomas Rauter, The University of Chicago Booth

Initial Coin Offerings, Blockchain Technology, and White Paper Disclosures

Date: Thursday 21 March, 10:30am

Location: OLD 3.21, Third Floor, OLD Building

Speaker: Franco Wong, University of Toronto

 

 

2017 - 2018

Accounting Research Forums

The Death of a Regulator: Strict Supervision, Bank Lending and Business Activity

Date: Wednesday 4 October, 3.30pm

Location: 32L.B.07, Basement, 32 Lincolns Inn Fields

Speaker: Christian Leuz, Chicago Booth

Uncertainty and Compensation Design in Strategic Inter-Firm Contracts

Date: Thursday 22 February, 3.30pm

Location: OLD 3.21, 3rd floor, Old Building

Speaker: Ranjani Krishnan, Michigan State University

Accounting, Organisations and Institution Seminars

Institutional work and the boundaries of a practice: Idealistic and pragmatic approaches to Beyond Budgeting 

Date: Wednesday 25 October, 3.00pm

Location: 32L.B.07, Basement, 32 Lincolns Inn Fields

Speaker: Martin Messner, Universität Innsbruck

The organization as site of security

Date: Wednesday 7 February, 3.00pm

Location: NAB 2.08, 2nd floor, New Academic Building

Speaker: Darlene Himick, University of Ottawa

The organizational production and consumption of ratings

Date: Wednesday 7 March, 3.00pm   

Location: 32L.B.07, Basement, 32 Lincolns Inn Fields       

Speaker: Thomas Matys, University of Hagen

Second-order economization risks of insuring climate change: The case of U.S. flood insurance

Date: Wednesday 14 March, 3.00pm

Location: LRB.R.505, 5th floor, Lionel Robbins Building

Speaker: Rebecca Elliott, LSE

Lives in Corporate Service: How Depreciation Made Capital Human and Humans Capital in Twentieth Century United States

Date: Wednesday 16 May, 3.00pm

Location: LRB.R.505, 5th floor, Lionel Robbins Building

Speaker: Dan Bouk, Colgate University

The Pricing of Progress: Economic Indicators and the Capitalization of American Life

Date: Wednesday 30 May, 11.00am

Location: OLD 3.28, 3rd floor, Old Building

Speaker: Eli Cook, University of Haifa

Financial Accounting Seminars

Peer Effects in Subjective Performance Evaluation

Date: Thursday 21 September, 3.30pm

Location: 32L.B.07, Basement, 32 Lincolns Inn Fields

Speaker: Gavin Cassar, INSEAD

Conservative Accounting and Free Cash Flow    

Date: Thursday 28 September, 3.30pm

Location: OLD 3.21, 3rd floor, Old Building

Speaker: Peter Easton, University of Notre Dame

Flight-to-Dividends: The Role of Earnings in Periods of Capital Scarcity

Date: Thursday 12 October, 10.00am

Location: CON 7.05, 7th floor, Connaught House 

Speaker: Eric So, MIT

Looking under the hood: Quantitative vs qualitative inputs to analyst forecasts of fundamental risk

Date: Thursday 2 November, 3.30pm

Location: OLD.3.23, 3rd floor, Old Building

Speaker: Peter Joos, INSEAD

Boards of a Feather: Foreign Directors around the World

Date: Thursday 16 November, 3.30pm

Location: OLD 3.21, 3rd floor, Old Building

Speaker: John Barrios, Chicago Booth

Are All Insider Sales Created Equal? New Evidence from Form 4 Footnote Disclosures

Date: Thursday 1 February, 3.30pm

Location: OLD 3.21, 3rd floor, Old Building

Speaker: Amir Amel-Zadeh, SAID Business School

Can Employees Glimpse the Future? Evidence from a Social Media Platform

Date: Thursday 15 March, 10.00am

Location: OLD 3.21, 3rd floor, Old Building

Speaker: Stanimir Markov, SMU

Information Distortion, R&D, and Growth

Date: Thursday 22 March, 3.30pm

Location: OLD 3.21, 3rd floor, Old Building

Speaker: Anastasia Zakolyukina, Chicago Booth

Private Equity’s Diversification Illusion: Evidence from Fair Value Accounting

Date: Thursday 26 April, 3.30pm

Location: OLD 3.21, 3rd floor, Old Building

Speaker: Stephen Stubben, David Eccles School of Business

How Do Accounting Practices Spread? An Examination of Law Firm Networks and Stock Option Backdating

Date: Thursday 3 May, 3.30pm

Location: OLD 3.21, 3rd floor, Old Building

Speaker: Patricia Dechow, USC Marshall

Distracted Analysts

Date: Thursday 17 May, 3.30pm

Location: OLD 3.21, 3rd floor, Old Building

Speaker: Skralan Vergauwe, Lancaster University

Securities Law Expertise and Corporate Disclosure 

Date: Thursday 24 May, 3.30pm

Location: OLD 3.21, 3rd floor, Old Building

Speaker: Zahn Bozanic, Ohio State University

Does Financial Misconduct Pay Off Even When Discovered?

Date: Thursday 7 June, 3.30pm

Location: LRB.R.505, 5th floor, Lionel Robbins Building

Speaker: Dan Amiram, Columbia Business School

 

2016 - 2017

Accounting Research Forums

22 February

Uncertainty and Compensation Design in Strategic Inter-Firm Contracts 

Speaker: Ranjani Krishnan 

13 October

Evidence for the Decision-facilitating Feedback Role of Performance Measurement Systems

Date: Thursday 13 October, 3.30pm
Location: OLD 3.21, 3rd floor, Old Building

Speaker: Shannon Anderson, UC Davis Graduate School of Management

 

22 February

The Effects of Firms’ Competitive Positions on Proprietary-Information Disclosure: Evidence from Manufacturing-Cost-Reporting Regulation in Korea

Date: Wednesday 22 February, 3.30pm
Location: Vera Anstey Room, Old Building 

Speaker: Philip Berger, Chicago Booth

 

8 March

Evolution in Value Relevance of Accounting Information

Date: Wednesday 8 March, 3.30pm
Location: LRB.R.505, 5th floor, Lionel Robbins Building

Speaker: Mary Barth, Stanford University

8 June

 Towards a Financial Statement Based Approach to Modeling Systemic Risk in Insurance and Banking

Date: Thursday 8 June, 3.30pm
Location: OLD 3.21, 3rd floor, Old Building

Speaker: Shivaram Rajgopal, Columbia Business School 

Financial Accounting Seminars

8 February 

The Market for Corporate Control and Information Quality: Evidence from Peer Firm Disclosure Response to Takeover Threat 

Speaker: Shuping Chen 

1 february 

Are All Insider Sales Created Equal? New Evidence from Form 4 Footnote Disclosures 

Speaker: Amir Amel-Zedeh 

18 January 

Director Perceptions of their Boards’ Effectiveness, Size and Composition, Dynamics, and Internal Governance

Speaker: Paul Healy 

16 November 

Boards of a Feather: Foreign Directors around the World

Speaker: John Barrios

6 October

A Growing Wedge in Decision Usefulness: The Rise of Concurrent Earnings Announcements

Date: Thursday 6 October, 3.30pm
Location: OLD 3.21, 3rd floor, Old Building

Speaker: Salman Arif, Indiana University

 

20 October

Reporting Quality and Audit Engagement Risk of Investment Companies

Date: Thursday 20 October, 3.30pm
Location: OLD 3.21, 3rd floor, Old Building

Speaker: Al Ghosh, Baruch College, Zicklin School of Business

 

27 October

Tangible Long-Lived Asset Impairments and Future Operating Cash Flows under US GAAP and IFRS

Date: Thursday 27 October, 3.30pm
Location: OLD 3.21, 3rd floor, Old Building

Speaker: Elizabeth A. Gordon, Temple University

10 November

 The Measurement of Speculative Investing Activities and Aggregate Economic Outcomes

Date: Thurdsay 10 November, 3.30pm
Location: OLD 3.21, 3rd floor, Old Building

Speaker: Asher Curtis, University of Washington

17 November

Knowledge Spillover and Accounting Firms’ Competitive Strength in the M&A Advisory Market

Date: Thursday 17 November, 3.30pm
Location: OLD 3.21, 3rd floor, Old Building

Speaker: Pawel Bilinski, CASS Business School

8 December

Benchmarking, Incentive Rebalancing, and the Influence of Labor
Market Competition on CEO Equity Grants

Date: Thursday 8 December, 3.30pm
Location: OLD 3.21, 3rd floor, Old Building

Speaker: Mary Ellen Carter, Boston College

 16 March

Fundamental Analysis of Banks: The Use of Financial Statement Information to Screen Winners from Losers

Date: Thursday 16 March, 3.30pm
Location: OLD 3.21, 3rd floor, Old Building

Speaker: Partha S. Mohanram, Rotman School of Management

27 April

Proactive Financial Reporting Enforcement and Firm Value

Date: Thursday 27 April, 3.30pm
Location: OLD 3.21, 3rd floor, Old Building

Speaker: Mark G. Maffett, Chicago Booth

18 May

Rescheduled to 8 March 2018 (was on Thursday 18 May, 3.30pm)

Speaker: Annette Beatty, The Ohio State University

 25 May

Stock Price Synchronicity and Material Sustainability Information

Date: Thursday 25 May, 3.30pm
Location: OLD 3.21, 3rd floor, Old Building

Speaker: George Serafeim, Harvard Business School

1 June

Banks as Tax Planning Intermediaries

Date: Thursday 1 June, 3.30pm
Location: LRB.R.505, 5th floor, Lionel Robbins Building

Speaker: Edward Maydew, UNC

Accounting, Organisations and Institutions Seminars

7 Febraury

The organization as site of Security 

Speakers: Darlene Himick 

5 October

What is value?

Date: Wednesday 5 October, 3.00pm
Location: LRB.R.505, 5th floor, Lionel Robbins Building

Speaker: Hugh Willmott, Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University

 

16 November

The Professionalization of the Corporate Historian/Archivist

Date: Wednesday 16 November, 3.30pm
Location: LRB.R.505, 5th floor, Lionel Robbins Building

Speaker: Roy Suddaby, Newcastle University Business School

 

23 November

Revisiting the Reports on The Western Railroad Crash of 1841: The First Manageriogenic Disaster?

Date: Wednesday 23 November, 3.30pm
Location: NAB.2.08, 2nd floor, New Academic Building

Speakers: Richard Macve and Keith Hoskin

1 March

 Assembling an accountability workspace: Governing international development

Date: Wednesday 1 March, 2.30pm
Location: LRB.R.505, 5th floor, Lionel Robbins Building

Speaker:  Daniel Martinez, HEC Paris

15 March

Evaluative Infrastructures: Accounting for Platform Organization

Date: Wednesday 15 March, 3.00pm
Location: LRB.R.505, 5th floor, Lionel Robbins Building

Speaker: Dane Pflueger, Copenhagen Business School

22 March

Socialization and Identity Narratives of East German Audit Recruits
following the Reunification of Germany

Date: Wednesday 22 March, 4.00pm
Location: LRB.R.505, 5th floor, Lionel Robbins Building

Speaker: Dominic Detzen, VU University Amsterdam

 31 May

Freedom from Work: Embracing Financial Self-Help in the U.S. and Argentina

Date: Wednesday 31 May, 3.30pm
Location: LRB.R.505, 5th floor, Lionel Robbins Building

Speaker: Daniel Fridman, The University of Texas at Austin

 

2015 - 2016

Accounting Research Forums

11 November

Payoffs to Aggressiveness

Date: Wednesday 11 November, 3.30pm
Location: LRB.R505, 5th floor, Lionel Robbins Building

Speaker: Katherine Schipper, Duke University

 

16 March

Effects of Increasing Enforcement on Firm Value and Financial Reporting Quality

Date: Wednesday 16 March, 3.30pm
Location: LRB.R505, 5th floor, Lionel Robbins Building

Speaker: Alfred Wagenhofer, University of Graz 

Financial Accounting Seminars

24 September

Estimation Bias and Monitoring in Clean Development Mechanism Projects

Date: Thursday 24 September, 2.30pm
Location: CON 7.05, 7th floor, Connaught House

Speaker: Naomi Soderstrom, University of Melbourne

 

30 September

What are the costs of admitting mistakes for foreign firms?

Date: Wednesday 30 September, 3.00pm
Location: LRB.R505,5th floor, Lionel Robbins Building

Speaker: Jenny Li Zhang, University of British Columbia

 

13 November

Changes in Corporate Effective Tax Rates Over the Past Twenty-Five Years

Date: Friday 13 November, 2.00pm  
Location: CON 7.05, 7th floor, Connaught House

Speaker: Michelle Hanlon, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

18 November

Hedge Fund Voluntary Disclosures

Date: Wednesday 18 November, 2.30pm
Location: Graham Wallas room, 5th floor, Old Building  

Speaker: John Hand, UNC

11 February

Does reporting transparency affect industry coordination?
Evidence from the duration of international cartels

Date: Thursday 11 February, 2.30pm
Location: Graham Wallas room, 5th floor, Old Building

Speaker: Igor Goncharov, Lancaster University Management School

10 March

The Real Effects of Mandatory Dissemination of Non-Financial Information through Financial Reports

Date: Thursday 10 March, 2.30pm
Location: 32L.B.07, Basement, 32 Lincolns Inn Fields

Speaker: Hans Christensen, The University of Chicago

11 March

Understanding the Informativeness of Book-Tax Differences

Date: Friday 11 March, 11.00am
Location: Graham Wallas room, 5th floor, Old Building

Speaker: Jennifer Blouin, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

18 March

Discretion in Collateralized Loan Obligations Reporting

Date: Friday 18 March, 13.00
Location: LRB.R505, 5th floor, Lionel Robbins Building

Speaker: Maria Loumioti, University of Southern California

25 April

Day 30: The Tacit Quarterly Information Event in the Banking Industry

Date: Monday 25 April, 15.00
Location: LRB.R505, 5th floor, Lionel Robbins Building

Speaker: Brad Badertscher, University of Notre Dame

9 June

Short Sales Constraints and IPO Pricing

Date: Thursday 9 June, 2.30pm
Location: 32L.B.07, Basement, 32 Lincolns Inn Fields

Speaker: Panos N. Patatoukas, University of California

24 June

A closer look at the value premium: Evidence from a multiples based
decomposition

Date: Friday 24 June, 2.00pm
Location: OLD 3.28, 3rd floor, Old Building

Speaker: Sonia Konstantinidi, CASS Business School

Accounting, Organisations and Institutions Seminars

8 December

Fifteen years on: Reflections on The Kursk Submarine Rescue Failure

Date: Tuesday 8 December, 1.00pm
Location: LRB.R505,5th floor, Lionel Robbins Building

Speaker: Anette Mikes, HEC Lausanne 

26 January

The Sovereignty of Numbers: Measurement and Power under neoliberalism

Date: Tuesday 26 January, 1.00pm
Location: NAB 5.21, 5th floor, NAB

Speaker: Will Davies, Goldsmiths, University of London

2 March

Accounting History and Theorising About Organisations: Insights into Management Accounting Research

Date: Wednesday 2 March, 3.00pm
Location: 32L.B.07, Basement, 32 Lincolns Inn Fields

Speaker: Christopher Napier, Royal Holloway University of London

27 April

Anglo-Irish and the social and organisational roots of the Irish Banking crisis

Date: Wednesday 27 April, 2.00pm
Location: LRB.R505, 5th floor, Lionel Robbins Building

Speaker: Yuval Millo, University of Leicester

25 May

CANCELLED (to be rescheduled) Attention Networks in Financial Markets

Date: Wednesday 25 May, 4.00pm
Location: LRB.R505, 5th floor, Lionel Robbins Building

Speaker: David Stark, Columbia University

 

2014 - 2015

Accounting Research Forums

29 October

The Construction of Risk Management Credibility within Corporate Boardrooms

Date: Wednesday 29 October, 3.30pm
Location: Graham Wallas room, 5th floor, Old Building

Speaker:Yves Gendron, Université Laval

10 December

The Impact of Forward-Looking Metrics on Employee Decision-Making: The Case of Customer Lifetime Value

Date: Wednesday 10 December, 3.30pm
Location:  OLD 3.21, 3rd floor, Old Building

Speaker: V.G. Narayanan, Harvard Business School  

4 February

Do Client Characteristics Really Drive the Big N Audit Quality Effect?

Date: Wednesday 4 February, 3.30pm

Location: Graham Wallas room, 5th floor, Old Building 

Speaker: Mark DeFond, USC

1 July

Investment Horizons and Price Indeterminacy in Financial Markets

Date: Wednesday 1 July, 3.30pm
Location: 32L.G.06, Ground floor, 32 Lincolns Inn Fields

Speaker: Shyam Sunder, Yale School of Management

Financial Accounting Seminars

1 October

Accounting Harmonization and Equity Market Contagion

Date: Wednesday 1 October, 3.00pm
Location: OLD 3.21, 3rd floor, Old Building

Speaker: Emmanuel De George, LBS

9 October

Real activity forecasts using loan portfolio information

Date: Thursday 9 October, 3.00pm
Location: OLD 3.21, 3rd floor, Old Building

Speaker:Bugra Ozel, UCLA

20 October

Information Frictions and Productivity Dispersion

Date: Monday 20 October, 2.15pm
Location: CON 7.05, 7th floor, Connaught House

Speaker: Rebecca Hann, University of Maryland

26 November

Qualitative Corporate Disclosure and Credit Rating Analysts' Soft Adjustments

Date: Wednesday 26 November, 3.00pm
Location: Graham Wallas room, 5th floor, Old Building

Speaker: Pepa Kraft, NYU Stern

15 December

Auditor-Provided Lobbying Service and Audit Quality

Date: Monday 15 December, 9.30am
Location: OLD.3.28, 3rd floor, Old Building

Speaker: 
Hui Chen, University of Zurich

17 December

Firm Fundamentals and Sensitivity to Aggregate Earnings Growth

Date: Wednesday 17 December, 3.00pm
Location: OLD.3.28, 3rd floor, Old Building 

 

Speaker: Atif Ellahie, LBS 

 

21 January

Leaders vs. Laggards: Conditional Firm Life Cycle and its Effect on Operating and Market Performance

Date: Wednesday 21 January, 3.00pm
Location: 32L.B.07, Basement, 32 Lincolns Inn Fields 

Speaker: Victoria Dickinson, University of Mississippi

4 March

Financial Market Developments and Management Compensation

Date: Wednesday 4 March, 3.00pm
Location: CON 7.05, 7th floor, Connaught House

Speaker: Scott Liao, Rotman School of Management

9 March

The Effects of CDS Trading Initiation on the Loan Syndication Market

Date: Monday 9 March, 3.30pm
Location: 32L.LG.02, Lower Ground, 32 Lincolns Inn Fields

Speaker: Wayne Landsman, UNC

11 March

Audit Partner Performance: A Network Perspective

Date: Wednesday 11 March, 3.00pm
Location: CON 7.05, 7th floor, Connaught House

Speaker: Jo Horton, University of Exeter

25 March

A Tale of Two Regulators: Risk Disclosures, Liquidity, and Enforcement in the Banking Sector

Date: Wednesday 25 March, 3.00pm
Location: OLD.3.28, 3rd floor, Old Building

Speaker: Luzi Hail, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

23 April

The Standard-setters’ Toolkit: Can Principles Prevail over Bright Lines?

Date: Thursday 23 April, 3.00pm
Location: OLD.3.23, 3rd floor, Old Building

Speaker: Patricia O'Brien, University of Waterloo

13 May

The Valuation Premium for a String of Positive Earnings Surprises: The Role of Earnings Manipulation

Date: Wednesday 13 May, 3.00pm
Location: 32L.LG.11, Lower Ground, 32 Lincolns Inn Fields

Speaker: Jenny Chu, University of Cambridge

20 May

Understanding Uncontested Director Elections:
Determinants and Consequences


Date: Wednesday 20 May, 4.00pm
Location: 32L.B.07, Basement, 32 Lincolns Inn Fields

Speaker: Yonca Ertimur, University of Colorado 

3 June

Goodwill Impairments Certified by Independent Valuation Experts

Date: Wednesday 3 June, 4.00pm
Location: OLD.3.23, 3rd floor, Old Building

Speaker: Miles Gietzmann, Università Bocconi

10 June

Private Ownership and the Cost of Debt: Evidence from the Bond Market 

Date: Wednesday 10 June, 3.00pm
Location: OLD.3.23, 3rd floor, Old Building

Speaker: Sharon Katz, Columbia Business School

17 June

Regulatory Oversight and Reporting Incentives: Evidence from SEC Budget Allocations

Date: Wednesday 17 June, 3.00pm
Location: OLD.3.23, 3rd floor, Old Building

Speaker: Terrence Blackburne, University of Washington

24 June

Strategic Choice of Fair Value Estimates

Wednesday 24 June, 3.00pm
Location:  NAB.1.19, 1st floor, New Academic Building

Speaker: Alan Jagolinzer, University of Colorado Boulder

26 June

A Matter of Principle: Accounting Reports Convey Both Cash-Flow News and Discount-Rate News

Friday 26 June, 10.30am
Location: NAB.2.08, 2nd floor, New Academic Building

Speaker: Stephen Penman, Columbia Business School

Accounting, Organisations and Institutions Seminars

19 November

Regulating the accounting profession: Identity formation in the regulatory oversight of accountants

Wednesday 19 November, 2.00pm
Location: Graham Wallas room, 5th floor, Old Building

Speaker: Brendan O'Dwyer, University of Amsterdam   

3 December

Mediating and Connecting: Reflecting on Ted O'Leary's Work

Wednesday 3 December, 11.00
Location: Vera Anstey Room, Old Building

28 January

Managing Legitimacy to Attract Millennial Employees

Date: Wednesday 28 January, 2.00pm
Location: Graham Wallas room, 5th floor, Old Building

Speaker: Sylvain Durocher, University of Ottawa

6 May

Top 10 Valuation Devices

Date: Wednesday 6 May, 2.00pm
Location: 32L.B.07, Basement, 32 Lincolns Inn Fields

Speaker: David Stark, Columbia University

2009-2013

  • Transnational standard setting in accounting: Organizing expertise-based self-regulation in times of crises
    Sebastian Botzem
    Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB)
    Tuesday 21 May 2013, 16.00-15.30pm, OLD.3.21
  • Corporate Governance, Product-Related Voluntary Disclosure and Analysts' Forecasts Properties
    Luminita Enache
    University of Wellington
    Tuesday 14 May 2013, 14.00-15.30pm, OLD.6.06
  • Information Policies, Collusion, and Honor Amongst Thieves
    Don Moser
    University of Pittsburgh
    Wednesday 01 May 2013, 16.00-17.30pm, OLD.3.21
  • Does Accounting Conservatism Impede Corporate Innovation?
    Gilles Hilary
    INSEAD
    Wednesday 20 March 2013, 4.00-5.30pm, OLD.3.21
  • Mandatory IFRS Reporting and Changes in Enforcement
    Christian Leuz
    Booth School of Business, University of Chicago
    Wednesday 20 February 2013, 4.00-5.30pm, CON.7.05
  • Earnings Management Decisions: The Role of Economics and Ethics    
    Paul Coram
    The University of Melbourne
    Wednesday 5 December 2012, 4.00-5.30pm, OLD.3.21
  • Earnings Quality: Evidence from the Field
    Illia Dichev
    Goizueta Business School, Emory University
    Wednesday 14 November 2012, 4.00-5.30pm, NAB.2.08
  • The auditing oligopoly and lobbying on accounting standards
    Karthik Ramanna
    Harvard Business School
    Wednesday 24 October 2012, 4.00-5.30pm, OLD.3.21
  • Valuation Accuracy and Cross-border Accounting Comparability: The Impact of Mandatory Adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards
    Steven Young
    Lancaster University
    Wednesday 10 October 2012, 4.00-5.30pm, OLD.3.21
  • Forecast Uncertainty, Earnings Management, and Zero or Small Positive Earnings Surprises
    David Veenman
    Erasmus School of Economics
    Wednesday 26 September 2012, 11.00-12.30, OLD.3.21
  • Accounting conservatism and the limits to earnings management
    Juan Manuel Garcia Lara
    Carlos III University of Madrid
    Wednesday 06 June 2012, 4.00-5.30pm, OLD.3.28
  • Ethics, Agents’ Choices and Incentive Contract Design
    Laurence van Lent
    Tilburg University
    Tuesday 29 May 2012, 4.00-5.30pm, OLD.3.21
  • Macro to Micro: Country exposures, firm fundamentals and stock returns
    Irem Tuna
    LBS
    Wednesday 16 May 2012, 4.00-5.30pm, OLD.6.06
  • Estimating the Amount of Estimation in Accruals
    Feng Li
    Michigan Ross School of Business
    Wednesday 02 May 2012, 4.00-5.30pm, CLM.3.07
  • A new measure of competition based on 10-K filings: Derivations and implications for financial statement analysis
    Russell Lundholm  
    University of Michigan
    Wednesday 25 April 2012, 4.00-5.30pm, OLD.3.21
  • Internal Control Weaknesses in the Market for Corporate Control: Disclosure vs. Propensity
    Emanuel Zur
    City University of New York
    Wednesday 20 March 2012, 4.00-5.30pm, NAB.2.16
  • The Timeliness of Private Company Financial Reporting
    Mark Clatworthy
    Cardiff Business School
    Wednesday 14 March 2012, 4.00-5.30pm, CLM.3.04
  • Accounting and Rehabilitation
    Stephen Walker
    Cardiff Business School
    Wednesday 07 March 2012, 4.00-5.30pm, CLM.2.05
  • Market Reactions to Securitization Retained Interest Impairments during the Financial Crisis of 2007-2008
    Wayne Landsman
    University of North Carolina
    Wednesday 29 February 2012, 4.00-5.30pm, CLM.2.04
  • Performance Measures in Earnings-Based Financial Covenants in Debt Contracts*
    Ningzhong Li
    London Business School
    Wednesday 01 February 2012, 4.00-5.30pm, OLD3.21
  • The Voice of the Market: Conformity and Deviance among Securities Analysts
    Fabrizio Ferraro
    IESE Business School 
    Wednesday 11 January 2012, 4.00-5.30pm, OLD3.21 
  • Fair Value Accounting and the Business Model of Banks
    Holger Daske
    University of Mannheim
    Wednesday 7 December 2011, 3.30-5.00pm, NAB1.14
  • The Audit Committee: Management Watchdog or Personal Friend of the CEO?
    Eddy Cardinaels
    Tilburg University
    Wednesday 23 November 2011, 4.00-5.30pm, OLD3.21
  • Commodification of Risk and Determinants of Credit Supply in U.S. Mortgage-Backed Securities Markets
    Kurtuluş Gemici
    National University of Singapore
    Wednesday 26 October 2011, 4.00-5.30pm, OLD3.21
  • The Effect of SFAS 141 and 142 on the Market for Corporate Control
    Ashiq Ali
    University of Dallas 
    Wednesday 12 October 2011, 4.00-5.30pm, NAB.1.14
  • Mandatory IFRS Adoption and the Stewardship Role of Financial Reporting
    Bin Ke
    Nanyang Business School
    Thursday 29 September 2011, 1.00-2.30pm, OLD3.21 
  • The Emergence of Islamic Accounting: From Ideology to Practice
    Christopher Napier
    University of London
    Wednesday 04 May 2011, 4.00-5.30pm, OLD3.21 
  • Framing Games for Hardening Accounting Information
    Casey Rowe
    Purdue University
    Wednesday 16 March 2011, 4.00-5.30pm, EAS.E168
  • Aggressive Pro Forma Reporting in the Post-SOX Environment: Do Managers Use Conference Calls to Influence Analysts' Exclusions?    
    Vicky Kiosse
    Lancaster University
    Wednesday 9 March 2011, 4.00-5.30pm, OLD3.21
  • Asset Management Uncertainty and Credit Term-Structure
    Scott Richardson
    BlackRock/London Business School
    Wednesday 16 February 2011, 4.15-5.45pm, NAB2.06
  • Exchange-Sponsored Analyst Coverage
    Lakshmanan Shivakumar
    London Business School
    Wednesday 2 February 2011, 4.00-5.30pm, OLD3.21
  • Into the void: Institutional Sources of De Novo Organizational Identities in Nanotechnology Exploration
    Michael Lounsbury
    University of Alberta School of Business
    Wednesday 1 December, 4.00-5.30pm, OLD3.21
  • The American Corporate Elite and the Historical Roots of the Financial Crisis of 2008
    Mark Mizruchi
    University of Michigan
    Wednesday 24 November, 4.00-5.30pm, OLD3.21
  • The Determinants of Firm-Specific Corporate Governance Arrangementsand the Informativeness of Accounting Reports: Evidence from Brazil
    Alexsandro Broedel Lopes
    Universidade de São Paulo and Securities and Exchange Commission of Brazil
    Wednesday 3 November, 4.00-5.30pm, OLD3.21    
  • Regulating Audit through Standards in a Globalising World
    Anne Loft
    Lund University
    Wednesday 17 March, 4.30-6.00pm, A379
  • Management reporting on internal control and accruals quality: Insights from a "comply-or-explain" internal control regime
    Ann Vanstraelen
    Maastricht University
    Wednesday 3 March, 4.00-5.30pm, A379
  • Mandatory Adoption of IFRS and Analysts' Forecasts Information Properties
    Philip Joos
    Tilburg University
    Wednesday 17 February, 4.45-6.15pm, A318
  • Implicit Control Mechanisms and Organizational Learning
    Dennis Campbell
    Harvard Business School
    Wednesday 10 February, 4.00-5.30pm, AGWR
  • Organizational Learning and Control System Design
    Henri Dekker
    Amsterdam Business School
    Wednesday 20 January, 4.00-5.30pm, AGWR 
  • Fraud Detection and Financial Reporting and Audit Delay
    Andrew Yim
    Tilburg University
    Wednesday 25 November, 4.00-5.30pm, A318
  • Earnings quality effects of mandatory IFRS adoption
    Peter Pope
    Lancaster University
    Wednesday 18 November, 5.00-6.30pm, A318