Events and Seminars
We hold seminars throughout the academic year. If you wish to present a paper to the group or if you would like further information on the seminars please contact us on 024 765 28228 or accounting dot group at wbs dot ac dot uk
Spring Term 2023/24
Date | Presenter | Affiliation | Paper Title |
17/04/24 | Jenny Chu | Cambridge University | TBC |
10/04/24 | Suresh Govindaraj | Rutgers | TBC |
04/04/24 | Sruthi R | Indian Institute of Technology, Madras | Role of Institutional Investors in Pledging Risk: Evidence from India |
03/04/24 | Stefano Cascino | London School of Economics | Does CEO Inside Debt Really Improve Financial Reporting Quality? |
27/03/24 | Mike Power | London School of Economics | The Economy of Traces - Traceability, tracking and the accounts we live by. Theorising Traceability (chapter 1). |
21/03/24 | April Klein | NYU Stern / WBS |
Do Investors Value Workplace Diversity? |
13/03/24 | Leonid Sokolovskyy | Manchester University | Disappointed World-Builders: The Case of Developing Human Rights Services in the Big 4 |
28/02/24 | Patricia Naranjo Olivares | Rice University | The Impact of Mandatory Closed Periods on Corporate Insider Trading |
07/02/24 | Mark Bradshaw | Boston College | Short Sellers’ Information Advantage: Analyzing Short Selling Reports and Information Sources |
24/01/24 | Daniel Qilin Peng | University College Dublin | ESG Considerations in Acquisitions and Divestitures: Corporate Responses to Mandatory ESG Disclosure |
05/01/24 | Dr. Hendrik Vollmer / Prof. Rania KamlaLink opens in a new window / Prof. Nicholas McGuiganLink opens in a new window | British Accounting and Finance Association (BAFA) | 6th Alternative Accounts Europe (AAE) ConferenceLink opens in a new window |
Autumn Term 2023/24
Date | Presenter | Affiliation | Paper Title |
15/012/23 | Clive Lennox | University of Southern California | An explanation of path analysis and recommendations for best practice |
06/12/23 | Hila Fogel-Yaari | University of Texas at Arlington | Fostering Trust: Financial Disclosure Quality and Innovation |
08/11/23 | Xi Li | London School of Economics | Financial Innovation via Sustainable Lending |
25/10/23 | Lewei Zhu | CUNEF University | Auditor and Client Investment Efficiency: Informational Advantage Obtained through Auditing Industry-Leader Clients |
18/10/23 | Bjorn Jorgensen | Copenhagen School of Business | Do Accounting Standards Affect Audit Matters? Evidence from Twin Firms |
12/10/23 | Philip Joos | Tilburg University | ESG Transparency of Private Equity and Debt Firms |
04/10/23 | Dhanya Krishna Kumar | WBS | Prevention is Better than Cure: Leveraging the Anticipatory Power of the Slippery Slope Phenomenon |
Summer Term 2022/23
Date | Presenter | Affiliation | Title |
28/06/23 | Sudipta Basu | Fox School of Business - Temple University | Antitrust laws and Conditional Conservatism |
31/05/23 (online) |
Ane Tamayo | London School of Economics | Sexism, Culture, and Firm Value: Evidence from the Harvey Weinstein Scandal and the #MeToo Movement |
17/05/23 | Steve Young | Lancaster University | Managers’ disclosure response to regulatory prompts for greater transparency on value creation: Evidence from a corpus analysis |
03/05/23 | Jelena Brankovic | Bielefeld University | Rankings, performance, and organizational status dynamics in higher education |
26/04/23 | Per Ahblom | London School of Economics |
Behind closed doors: Exploring the conduct of private meetings between investor and company representatives |