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

We have a long-standing and successful Research Seminar Series, recent presenters include Bjorn Jorgensen, Clive Lennox and Mark Bradshaw.

Spring Term 2025/26

Date	Presenter	Affiliation	Title
25/03/26	Joachim Gassen	Humboldt University of Berlin
18/03/26	Dane Pflueger	WBS
12/03/26	Selina Pei	WBS
11/03/26	Javier Gomez Biscarri	Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona School of Management	Net charge-offs in loan loss provision models: an examination of opposing views and empirical proposals
05/03/26	Yuval Millo	WBS	Navigating expectations: How investor relations officers shape and deliver company guidance
04/03/26	Benjamin Whipple	Terry College of Business, Georgia University	The Usefulness of EBITDA in Equity Markets
25/02/26	Martin Jacob	IESE Business School, University of Navarra	Carbon Pricing and Cross-Border Innovation Spillovers
11/02/26	Jacob Zureich	Lehigh University	A Pink Tax on Failure: How Responding to Negative Feedback Harms Female Leaders
09/02/26	Richard Barker	IFRS’s International Sustainability Standards Board	In this session Richard will talk about his work as a sustainability standards setter.
04/02/26	Victoria Honsel	University of St. Gallen	An illusion of control? Scripting performance and the reality of training accounting
28/01/26	Marti Guasch Mercadé	Esade Ramon Llull University	The effects of disclosure deregulation on the informativeness of earnings in newly public firms: Evidence from the JOBS Act
21/01/26	Marcelo Ortiz	Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona School of Management	The Effect of Mandatory Disclosure on the CEO Market for Private Firms
14/01/26	Thomas Bourveau	Saïd Business School, University of Oxford	Signaling in the Twilight Zone: Disclosure and Credibility in the OTC Market

Autumn Term 2025/26

Date	Presenter	Affiliation	Title
26/11/25	Manyun Maureen Tang	Saïd Business School, University of Oxford	Beyond Financial Statements: The Value of External Assurance of Nonfinancial Disclosure
19/11/25	Lucas Lee	ie University	Diversity, Interrupted? Diversity Hushing and Political Pressure
05/11/25	Juan Felipe Imbed	Paris Dauphine University	The Real Effects of Offshore Data Leaks: Evidence from Private Firms
29/10/25	Bharat Sarath	Rutgers Business School	Tone Dissonance across Corporate Disclosures and future business strategies
23/10/25	Cameron Grant	Schulich School of Business, York University	What we talk about when we talk about scapegoats: The eclipse of revelation in the Evergrande-PwC audit failure case
15/10/25	Marcin Kacperczyk	Imperial Collage London	Infrastructure Capacity, Risk, and Firm Value: Evidence from U.S. Electricity Tightness
08/10/25	Zhongnan Xiang	WBS	Familiar partners, better forecasts? Analyst forecasts in repeated co-patent parnerships
01/10/25	Raffaele Manini	WBS

Summer Term 2024/25

Date	Presenter	Affiliation	Title
18/06/25	Tzu-Ting Chiu	NNH Norwegian School of Economics	Does Social Connectedness between Geographic Regions Mitigate Supply Chain Investment Inefficiency?
05/06/25	Selina Pei / Raffaele Manini	WBS	Green Governance: How Investors Shape Environmental Expertise On Boards
04/06/25	Peter Pope	Bocconi University	Do Employees Value Defined Benefit Pension Plans? Evidence from Employee Satisfaction Ratings
14/05/25	Tomasso Palermo	London School of Economics	Engaging through accounting: Translation work in an NGO network
30/04/25	Bret Johnson	George Mason University	De Facto Tier-Based Regulation in the SEC Filing Review Process
29/04/25	Xiaoxi Wu	Bocconi University	Country-Specific Sentiment and Geographic Segment Disclosure