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 02476 528228 or accounting dot group at wbs dot ac dot uk
Autumn Term 2020/21
| Date | Presenter | Affiliation | Title |
| 27/10/20 Online |
Yves Gendron | Laval University, Quebec | Competing for Narrative Authority in Capital Markets: Financial Analysts vs. Activist Short Sellers |
| 04/11/20 Online |
Igor Goncharov | Lancaster University Management School | How do social planners design accounting standards? Evidence from central banks’ accounting choices |
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18/11/20 |
Anette Mikes | Saïd Business School, University of Oxford | Arcs of engagement: Director involvement and the birth of new control processes |
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02/12/20 |
Wenjiao Cao | Erasmus University Rotterdam | TBC |
Summer Term 2019/20
| Date | Presenter | Affiliation | Title |
| 06/05/20 Online |
Chris Chapman | University of Bristol | Gamification as a control strategy |
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13/05/20 |
Hilary Lindsay | ICAEW Past President | Learning frameworks for the future |
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22/07/20 |
Jay Jung | CASS Business School | Is Your Surname Remunerative? Surname Favorability and CEO Compensation |
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23/09/20 |
Gaizka Ormazábal | IESE Business School, University of Navarra | Switching From Incurred to Expected Loan Loss Provisioning: Early Evidence |
Spring Term 2019/20
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Date |
Presenter |
Affiliation |
Title |
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15/01/20 |
Tong Li |
WBS |
The Mutualistic Relationship between Formal Finance and Informal Finance and Invisible Credit Layering: The Case Of China’s Commercial Paper Market |
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29/01/20 |
Xing Huan |
WBS |
Let’s talk about the weather: climate risk and bank earnings management |
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05/02/20 |
Ganesh Viswanath-Natraj |
WBS |
What Keeps Stable Coins Stable? |
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19/2/20 |
Dhanya Krishna Kumar |
WBS |
Detecting Academic Fraud Using Benford Law: The Case of Professor James Hunton. |
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26/2/20 |
David Veenman |
University of Amsterdam |
Crowdsourced Earnings Expectations and the Salience of Sell-Side Forecast Bias |
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04/03/20 |
Annette Quayle |
QUT Business School, Queensland University of Technology |
Public interest disclosures, whistleblowers and accounting for publicness: a review and call for new directions |
Autumn Term 2019/20
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Date |
Presenter |
Affiliation |
Title |
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2/10/19 |
Nadia Matringe |
London School of Economics |
Accounting and the Making of Financial Markets InThe Early Modern Age. |
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16/10/19 |
Dan Segal |
WBS / Arison School of Business, IDC Herzliya |
Filing Speed, Information Leakage, and Price Formation. |
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30/10/19 |
Mohamed Janahi |
WBS |
Does ethnic diversity of the board affect the timeliness of loan loss provision reporting in banks? |
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13/11/19 |
Savvas Papadopoulos |
University of Gothenburg |
Are audit partners shaped by their daughters?: Female socialization and audit quality. |
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27/11/19 |
Pawel Bilinski |
CASS |
Does Regulatory Monitoring Improve M&A Outcomes? |
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4/12/19 |
Ruowen Xu |
WBS |
Data Science work at scale - social credit scoring in China. |
Summer Term 2018/19
| Date | Presenter | Affiliation | Title |
| 5.6.19 | Larkshmanan Shivakumar | London Business School | Analysts’ estimates of the cost of equity capital* |
| 17.6.19 | Cynthia Hardy | University of Melbourne | Organizations, Risk Translation and the Ecology of Risks: The Discursive Construction of a Novel Risk |
Spring Term 2018/19
| Date | Presenter | Affiliation | Title |
| 16.01.2019 | Wim A Van der Stede | London School of Economics | "An Empirical Analysis of Employee Responses to Bonuses and Penalties" |
| 13.02.2019 | Mohamed Janahi | WBS | 'CFO gender and financial reporting decisions in banks' |
| 20.02.2019 | Amedeo Pugliese | University of Padova | "Afraid to Monitor? How Board-CEO Cognitive Conflict and Chair Leadership Shape Outside Director Monitoring." |
| 27.2.2019 | Dimitrios Gounopoulos | University of Bath | 'Corporate Political Activism and Audit Fees'. |
| 6.03.2019 | Karthik Balakrishnan | London Business School | |
| 13 & 14.03.19 | Professor Keith Robson | HEC Paris | 'Moral imaginaries of performance measurement systems in the pharmaceutical industry: Struggles and negotiations to define what is an agent and what is not' |
Autumn Term 2018/19
| Date | Presenter | Affiliation | Title |
| 10.10.2018 | Maria Correia |
London School of Economics |
''Does consumer protection enhance disclosure credibility in reward crowdfunding?'' |
| 31.10.2018 | Beatriz Garcia |
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain |
CEO and CFO Gender and Firm Wide Insider Trading |
| 07.11.2018 | Facundo Mercado |
WBS (Internal Speaker) |
''The role of accounting quality during mutual fund fire sales'' |
| 21.11.2018 | Mark Clatworthy |
University of Bristol |
"Reporting Accountants Disclosures and Accounting Errors: Evidence from UK Private Companies" |
| 28.11.2018 | Andrew Stark |
University of Manchester |
"Independant Sources of Information about UK Expected Returns" |
Spring Term 2017/18
| Date | Presenter | Affiliation | Title |
| 10.01.2018 | Dan Segal | Arison School of Business | Does fiduciary duty to creditors reduce debt-covenant-violation avoidance behavior |
| 15.01.2018 | Arturs Praulins | WBS | TBC |
| 17.01.2018 | Pierre Lescoat | ESCP Europe | Meritocracy and performance indicators in the financial markets industry |
| 24.01.2018 | Palan Ronen | City University of London | The Firm in its own Image: Mapping Equity Ties among the Corporate units that make up the Modern firm’ |
| 31.01.2018 | Asad Kausar | NTU, Singapore | The Usefulness of Negative Aggregate Earnings Changes in Predicting Future Gross Domestic Product Growth |
| 07.02.2018 | Paolo Quattrone | University of Edinburgh | TBC |
| 14.02.2018 | Niamh Brennan | University College Dublin | Do Firms Effectively Communicate with Financial Stakeholders? A Conceptual Model of Corporate Communication in a Capital Market Context? |