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 2022/23

Date	Presenter	Affiliation	Title
09/03/23	Ted Christensen	University of Georgia	TBC
08/03/23	Ian Thomson	University of Birmingham	TBC
22/02/23	Vera Linke & Jaromir Junne	Helmut-Schmidt University	TBC
08/02/23	Leonard Seabrooke & Johann Ole Willers	Copenhagen Business School	TBC

Autumn Term 2022/23

Date	Presenter	Affiliation	Paper Title
30/11/22	Gerald Ward	Lancaster University	Who is talking about whom? Determinants and Consequences
15/11/22	Eleonore Brouard	ESCP	On the relationship between quantification and valuation: repairing quantification to select consultants in the public sector
09/11/22 (online)	Michele Fabrizi	University of Padova	Follow the Money when Mafia leaves Home: Evidence on peers’ performance
02/11/22	Finia Kuhlmann	London School of Economics	Co-producing User Voices: Making up accounts of experiences of vulnerable service users
01/11/22 (online)	Fengzhi Zhu	Carlos lll University of Madrid	Firms' Disclosure Strategies and Users' Information Acquisition
26/10/22	Yuval Millo	WBS	Pay for Loyalty: Managerial Entrenchment Dynamics and their contribution to Corporate Governance Failure
19/10/22	Pauline Wu	WBS	Matching audit partners with client firms
12/10/22	Qiaoye Yu	WBS	Are retail investors attracted by green firms? Evidence from extreme weather events
06/10/22	Dan Segal / Selina Pei	WBS / Arison School of Business, Reichman University	Are Investors Aware of Relative Operational Inefficiency?
05/10/22	Mohan Venkatachalam	Fuqua School of Business, Duke University	What If There Were No Annual Reports? Evidence from the Great Postal Strike of 1970
28/09/22	Luminita Enache	Haskayne Business School, University of Calgary	Counterpoised Disclosure: Evidence from the Biotechnology Industry
23/09/22	Dirk Black	University of Nebraska-Lincoln	Investor Commitment to Responsible Investing and Firm ESG Disclosure
14/09/22	Yeqin Zeng	Durham University	Executive Team and Corporate Misbehavior: Evidence from U.S. Equity Market

Summer Term 2021/22

Date	Presenter	Affiliation	Title
08/07/22	Bharat Sarath	Rutgers University	Investor perceptions of Real and Unreal Bargain Purchase Gains: An Examination of Acquisitions in the Financial Services Industry during the 2008 crisis
29/06/22	Xiaoxi Wu	Bocconi University	Customer-Base Concentration and Financial Reporting Quality: International Evidence
15/06/22	Elena Giovannoni	Royal Holloway University of London	Travelling to Mars and beyond: time, (in)calculability and performance measurements
01/06/22	Eli Amir	Coller School of Management, Tel Aviv University	Hourly Audit Fees and Corruption Levels: An International Analysis
25/05/22	Waqar Ali	INSEAD	The effects of ASC 606 on Revenue Recognition