Finance-Accounting Research Seminar
This seminar is a joint initiative of Humboldt-Universität and ESMT, and provides a forum to discuss current research in the areas of finance and accounting. External guests are welcome.
Seminar organizers: Beatriz Mariano / Ulf Brüggemann / Guillermo Baquero
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| Date | Speaker | Time and Location |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 Oct 18 | Open date (t.b.a.) | |
| 2018 Oct 23 Tuesday |
Francesco D'Acunto (Boston College) - Human Frictions to the Transmission of Economic Policie Host: Alex Stomper |
16:15 - 17:45 SPA 1, Room 23 |
| 2018 Nov 01 | Open date (t.b.a.) | |
| 2018 Nov 08 | Open date (t.b.a.) | |
| 2018 Nov 15 | Open date (t.b.a.) | |
| 2018 Nov 22 | Hami Amiraslani (INSEAD) - Board Independence and Bondholder Agency Risk Host: Joachim Gassen |
14:15 – 15:45 SPA 1, Room 23 |
| 2018 Nov 30 Friday |
Emanuele Colonnelli (Chicago Booth) - Corruption and firms: Evidence from randomized audits in Brazil Host: Guillermo Baquero |
12:00 – 13:15 ESMT, LC Bookshop |
| 2018 Dec 06 | Ralf Meisenzahl (Fed) - The Rise of Shadow Banking: Evidence from Capital Regulation Host: Max Bruche |
14:15 – 15:45 DOR 1, Room 405 |
| 2018 Dec 11 Tuesday |
Alexei Ovtchinnikov (HEC Paris) - cancelled Host: Alex Stomper |
16:15 – 17:45 SPA 1, Room 23 |
| 2018 Dec 13 | Lorenzo Garlappi (UBC) - The Term Structure of Credit Spreads with Dynamic Debt Issuance and Incomplete Information Host: Alex Stomper |
12:15 – 13:45 DOR 1, Room 405 |
| 2018 Dec 20 | Thomas Rauter (Chicago Booth) - The Effect of Foreign Corruption Regulation on Corrupt Countries Host: Joachim Gassen |
14:15 – 15:45 SPA 1, Room 23 |
| 2019 Jan 10 | Open date (t.b.a.) | |
| 2019 Jan 17 | Open date (t.b.a.) | |
| 2019 Jan 24 | Open date (t.b.a.) | |
| 2019 Jan 29 Tuesday |
Farzad Saidi (SSE) - The Effects of Credit Supply on Wage Inequality between and within Firms Host: Alex Stomper |
16:15 - 17:45 SPA 1, Room 23 |
| 2019 Jan 31 | Melissa Porras Prado (Nova School) - Capital Commitment and Investment Decisions: The Role of Mutual Fund Charge Host: Guillermo Baquero |
14:00 – 15:30 ESMT, Bookshop |
| 2019 Feb 06 Wednesday |
Yangming Bao (Goethe University Frankfurt) - cancelled Host: Tim Adam |
14:15 – 15:45 DOR 1, Room 405 |
| 2019 Feb 07 | Christian Stadler (Royal Holloway) - Measuring Environmental Performance: The Case of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Host: Ulf Brüggemann |
14:15 – 15:45 SPA 1, Room 23 |
| 2019 Feb 14 | Open date (t.b.a.) | |
Preview Following Semester
2019 summer term
| Date | Speaker | Time and Location |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 Apr 11 | Petri Jylha (Aalto University) Host: Tim Adam |
14:15 – 15:45 DOR 1, Room 405 |
| 2019 Apr 18 | Darren Bernard (LBS) Host: Joachim Gassen |
14:15 – 15:45 SPA 1, Room 23 |
| 2019 Apr 25 | Enrico Sette (Bank of Italy) Host: Max Bruche |
14:15 – 15:45 DOR 1, Room 405 |
| 2019 May 02 | Open date (t.b.a.) | |
| 2019 May 09 | Open date (t.b.a.) | |
| 2019 May 16 | Jiří Novák(Charles University in Prague) Host: Joachim Gassen |
14:15 – 15:45 SPA 1, Room 23 |
| 2019 May 23 | Thomas Mattys (Vlerick Business School) Host: Tim Adam |
14:15 – 15:45 DOR 1, Room 405 |
| 2019 Jun 06 | Matti Keloharju (Aalto University) Host: Tim Adam |
14:15 – 15:45 DOR 1, Room 405 |
| 2019 Jun 13 | Gyoengyi Loranth (Vienna) Host: Alex Stomper |
14:15 – 15:45 DOR 1, Room 405 |
| 2019 Jun 20 | Jan Starmans (SSE) Host: Tim Adam |
14:15 – 15:45 DOR 1, Room 405 |
| 2019 Jun 27 | Russ Wermers (Maryland) Host: Tim Adam |
14:15 – 15:45 DOR 1, Room 405 |
| 2019 Jul 04 | Open date (t.b.a.) | |
| 2019 Jul 11 | Steven Vanhaverbeke (Erasmus University Rotterdam) Host:Joachim Gassen |
14:15 – 15:45 SPA 1, Room 23 |
Archive Previous Semesters
2018 summer term
| Date | Speaker – Title |
|---|---|
| 2018 Jul 19 | Andre Güttler (Ulm) – The effect of bank competition on access to finance |
| 2018 Jul 12 | Tolga Demir (SSE) – Utilizing Management Technology Advantages in Cross-Border Acquisitions |
| 2018 Jul 05 | Pepa Kraft (HEC Paris) – Commitment to Regulation and Demand for Crypto Tokens |
| 2018 Jun 28 | Bianca Beyer (Oulu Business School) – Are convicted CEOs overpaid? |
| 2018 Jun 28 | Sergio Vicente (UC3M) – Default penalties and fee structure in private equity partnerships |
| 2018 Jun 21 | Daniel Streitz (CBS) – Inference in the presence of spillover effects |
| 2018 Jun 19 | Denis Gromb (HEC) – Financial Restructuring and Resolution of Banks |
| 2018 Jun 14 | Simon Gervais (Duke) – The equilibrium value of employee ethics |
| 2018 Jun 11 | Thorsten Hens (UZH) – An application of evolutionary portfolio theory to factor investing |
| 2018 May 31 | Internal seminar |
| 2018 May 24 | Ethan Rouen (HBS) – Corporate Tax Cuts Increase Income Inequality |
| 2018 May 17 | Daniel Metzger (HHS) – Since You're so Rich, You Must be Really Smart |
| 2018 May 16 | Angelo Ranaldo (s/bf-HSG) |
| 2018 Apr 26 | Reint Gropp (IWH) – The cleansing effect of banking crises |
| 2018 Apr 19 | Internal seminar |
2017 winter term
| Date | Speaker – Title |
|---|---|
| 2018 Feb 15 | Internal seminar |
| 2018 Feb 08 | Martin Walker (Manchester) – Understanding how the effects of conditional conservatism measurement bias vary with the research context |
| 2018 Feb 01 | Josef Zechner (WU Vienna) |
| 2018 Jan 25 | Laurence van Lent (Frankfurt School of Finance & Mgmt.) – Firm-Level Political Risk |
| 2018 Jan 18 | Thomas Gehrig (Vienna) – Political Favoritism and Industrial Structure in the Banking Sector |
| 2018 Jan 11 | Internal seminar |
| 2017 Dec 21 | Dan Amiram (Columbia) – Do Executive Compensation Contracts Maximize Firm Value? |
| 2017 Dec 20 | Tarek Hassan (Boston) |
| 2017 Dec 14 | Florin Vasvari (LBS) – Portfolio Performance Manipulation in Collateralized Loan Obligations |
| 2017 Dec 07 | Marno Verbeek (Rotterdam School of Management) |
| 2017 Nov 30 | Rainer Jankowitsch (WU Wien) – The Rules of the Rating Game |
| 2017 Nov 23 | Internal seminar |
| 2017 Nov 15 | Thomas Gehrig (Vienna) – Did the Basel Process of Capital Regulation Enhance the Resiliency of European Banks? |
| 2017 Nov 08 | Axel Stahmer (ESMT Berlin) – An examination of tail risk taking by active mutual funds |
| 2017 Nov 02 | Internal seminar |
| 2017 Oct 26 | Internal seminar |
| 2017 Oct 19 | Internal seminar |
2017 summer term
| Date | Speaker – Title |
|---|---|
| 2017 Jul 20 | Internal seminar |
| 2017 Jul 13 | Internal seminar |
| 2017 Jul 06 | Internal seminar |
| 2017 Jun 29 | Victor Maas (Amsterdam) – Finding Partners in Crime? |
| 2017 Jun 28 | Harald Hau (SFI, Geneva) |
| 2017 Jun 22 | Internal seminar |
| 2017 Jun 15 | Tanseli Savaser (Bilkent) – Differential Risk Taking Implications of Performance Incentives from Stock and Stock Option Holdings |
| 2017 Jun 08 | Internal seminar |
| 2017 Jun 01 | Emmanuel De George (LBS) – Fair-Value Adjustments and Debt Contracting |
| 2017 May 18 | Suresh Sundaresan (Columbia) – An explanation of negative swap spreads |
| 2017 May 11 | Max Bruche (Cass Business School) – Pipeline Risk in Leveraged Loan Syndication |
| 2017 May 08 | Martin Kanz (Worldbank) – Status goods |
| 2017 May 05 | Heiko Jacobs (Mannheim) – Anomalies Across the Globe |
| 2017 May 04 | John Barrios (Chicago) – Corporate Tax Departments |
| 2017 Apr 27 | Paul Madsen (Florida) – University-Level Recruiting and Black Underrepresentation in the Auditing Profession |
| 2017 Apr 20 | Internal seminar |
2016 winter term
| Date | Speaker – Title |
|---|---|
| 2017 Feb 16 | Internal seminar |
| 2017 Feb 09 | Internal seminar |
| 2017 Feb 02 | Internal seminar |
| 2017 Jan 23 | Ekkehart Boehmer (SMU SKBI) – Tracking Retail Investor Activity |
| 2017 Jan 19 | Internal seminar |
| 2017 Jan 12 | Internal seminar |
| 2017 Jan 05 | Laurenz Klipper (Humboldt) – Pennies in Front of a Steamroller? |
| 2016 Dec 15 | Jens Hilscher (UC Davis) – Inflating away the public debt? |
| 2016 Dec 05 | Danielle Zhang (Norwegian Business School) – CEOs' Personal Portfolio and Corporate Policies |
| 2016 Dec 01 | Engelbert Dockner (WU Vienna, VGSF) – Fund promotion and individual investors' fund flows |
| 2016 Nov 29 | Ron Giammarino (UBC) – Tax Loss Carry-Forwards and Returns |
| 2016 Nov 24 | Yun Lou (HEC Paris) – Major government Customers and Loan Contract Terms |
| 2016 Nov 10 | Amir Amel-Zadeh (Oxford) – 10-K Narrative Disclosures |
| 2016 Nov 03 | Eliezer Fich (Drexel) – The effect of takeover protection on the value of cash |
| 2016 Nov 02 | Nicole Branger (Münster) – Asset Pricing |
| 2016 Oct 27 | Dan Segal (IDC Herzliya) – The Discovery Role of Analysts |
| 2016 Oct 20 | Jochen Lawrenz (Innsbruck) – Contingent Convertible Bonds in a General Equilibrium Model |
2016 summer term
| Date | Speaker – Title |
|---|---|
| 2016 Jul 06 | Antonio Mello (Wisconsin) – Collateral in corporate financing |
| 2016 Jul 05 | Maria Kasch (Humboldt) – Systematic Risk and Share Turnover [or Beta as a Measure of Mispricing] |
| 2016 Jun 30 | Gavin Cassar (INSEAD) – Hedge Fund Voluntary Disclosure |
| 2016 Jun 23 | Sheridan Titman (UT Austin) – Swimming Upstream |
| 2016 Jun 16 | Martin Schmalz (Michigan) – Common Ownership, Competition, and Top Management Incentives |
| 2016 Jun 13 | José Azar (Charles River Associates) – A New Look at Oligopoly |
| 2016 Jun 09 | Christof Beuselinck (IESEG) – Determinants of Subsidiary Cash Holdings in Multinational Corporations |
| 2016 Jun 07 | Marco Pagano (Naples Federico II) – Bank Exposures and Sovereign Stress Transmission |
| 2016 Jun 06 | Eduardo Schwartz (UCLA) – Optimal carbon abatement in a stochastic equilibrium model with climate change |
| 2016 May 26 | Olga Kuzmina (New Economic School) – Capital structure and exporting |
| 2016 May 19 | Yuri Tserlukevich (Arizona State) – Is Market Timing Good for Shareholders? |
| 2016 May 12 | Rik Sen (HKUST) – Inside Brokers |
| 2016 Apr 28 | Wolfgang Drobetz (Hamburg) – Cyclicality of Growth Opportunities and the Value of Cash Holdings |
| 2016 Apr 21 | David Oesch (University of Zurich) – Financial Constraints and Corporate Disclosure |
| 2016 Apr 15 | Avri Ravid (Yeshiva University) – Intellectual Property Contracts |
2015 winter term
| Date | Speaker – Title |
|---|---|
| 2016 Feb 11 | Christian Schlag (Frankfurt) – Does Ambiguity About Volatility Matter Empirically? |
| 2016 Feb 04 | Internal seminar |
| 2016 Jan 28 | Nicole Branger (Münster) – Equilibrium Asset Pricing in Directed Networks with Mutually Exciting Jumps |
| 2016 Jan 21 | Internal seminar |
| 2016 Jan 14 | Jeremy Michels (Wharton) |
| 2016 Jan 07 | Internal seminar |
| 2015 Dec 10 | Ramin Baghai (SSE) – Non-rating revenue and conflicts of interest |
| 2015 Dec 07 | Klaus Ritzberger (VGSF) – The Curse of Poverty and the Blessings of Wealth |
| 2015 Dec 03 | Gaizka Ormazabal (IESE) – Are Directors More Likely to Relinquish Their Riskiest Directorships after the Crisis? |
| 2015 Dec 02 | Michael Weber (Chicago Booth) – Monetary policy through production networks |
| 2015 Nov 26 | Martin Jacob (WHU) – The differential effect of consumption, wage, and capital taxes on corporate investment |
| 2015 Nov 19 | Roland Strausz (HU) – A Theory of Crowdfunding |
| 2015 Nov 12 | Andre Guettler (Ulm) – Public Bank Guarantees and Allocative Efficiency |
| 2015 Nov 05 | Ashish Tiwari (Iowa) – Market Liquidity, Funding Liquidity, and Hedge Fund Performance |
| 2015 Oct 29 | Alexander Ljungqvist (NYU) – State Capitalism vs. Private Enterprise |
| 2015 Oct 22 | Juan Manuel García Lara (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) – Accounting conservatism and the limits to earnings management |
2015 summer term
| Date | Speaker – Title |
|---|---|
| 2015 Jul 16 | Internal seminar |
| 2015 Jul 09 | Internal seminar |
| 2015 Jul 02 | Internal seminar |
| 2015 Jun 25 | Xi Li (Temple University) |
| 2015 Jun 18 | Internal seminar |
| 2015 Jun 11 | Antoinette Schoar (MIT) – Middle Class Origins of the Financial Crisis |
| 2015 Jun 04 | Söhnke Bartram (Warwick) – Fundamental analysis works |
| 2015 May 28 | Diego Garcia (UNC) – The kinks of financial journalism |
| 2015 May 21 | Ann Vanstraelen (Maastricht) – Earnings Management within Multinational Corporations |
| 2015 May 07 | Romain Boulland (ESSEC) – Announcing the Announcement |
| 2015 May 04 | Thierry Foucault (HEC Paris) – Corporate Strategy, Conformism, and the Stock Market |
| 2015 Apr 30 | Michael Halling (Stockholm School of Economics) – Corporate Life-Cycle Dynamics of Cash Holdings |
| 2015 Apr 27 | Dion Bongaerts (Rotterdam School of Management) – Private information about reputation |
| 2015 Apr 20 | Alexander Guembel (Toulouse School of Economics) – A Welfare Analysis of Fragmented Liquidity Markets |
| 2015 Apr 13 | Günter Strobl (Frankfurt School of Finance & Mgmt.) – Credit Ratings |
2014 winter term
| Date | Speaker – Title |
|---|---|
| 2015 Feb 12 | Internal seminar |
| 2015 Feb 05 | Robert Kosowski (Imperial College) – The Effect of Regulatory Constraints on Fund Performance |
| 2015 Jan 29 | Florian Heider (ECB) – Optimal Margins and Equilibrium Prices |
| 2015 Jan 22 | Internal seminar |
| 2015 Jan 19 | Alexander Kempf (Köln) – Trading Efficiency of Fund Families |
| 2015 Jan 15 | Internal seminar |
| 2015 Jan 08 | Internal seminar |
| 2014 Dec 18 | Internal seminar |
| 2014 Dec 15 | Erik Theissen (Mannheim) – GDP Mimicking Portfolios and the Cross-Section of Stock Returns |
| 2014 Dec 11 | Internal seminar |
| 2014 Dec 04 | Alexei Ovtchinnikov (HEC Paris) – Political Activism and Firm Innovation |
| 2014 Nov 27 | Yakov Amihud (NYU) – The pricing of the illiquidity factor's systematic risk |
| 2014 Nov 20 | Maria Correia (LBS) – Asset Volatility |
| 2014 Nov 13 | Tim Adam (Humboldt) |
| 2014 Nov 07 | Douglas J. Skinner (Chicago) – The Evolution of Audit Market Structure and the Emergence of the Big 4 |
| 2014 Oct 30 | Daniel Paravisini (LSE) – Comparative Advantage and Specialization in Bank Lending |
| 2014 Oct 23 | Zacharias Sautner (Frankfurt School of Finance & Mgmt.) – Managerial Short-Termism and Investment |
| 2014 Oct 16 | Ryan T. Ball (Michigan) – An Empirical Examination of Horizon |