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Accounting and Finance

Spring 2024
Date	Presenter and topic	Organizing Group
March 21	Asset pricing with clustered, controllable disasters Claus Munk, CBS	Finance
April 11	Performance measurement with the Omega ratio: Some pitfalls and how to avoid them Nikolaus Schweizer, Tilburg University	Finance
May 7	The measurement of quarterly earnings: Integral versus discrete method Colin Koutney, George Mason University	Accounting
May 23	Fiscal Constraints, Disaster Vulnerability, and Corporate Investment Decisions Florian Nagler, Bocconi University	Finance
June 6	Shadow of Loss: Mutual Fund Tail Behavior and Investor Flows Yong Chen, Texas A&M University	Finance
June 25	Doing Good or Mitigating Bad? How Sustainability Fund Disclosure Frames Influence Retail Investors Joseph Johnson, University of South Carolina	Accounting
July 2	The Impact of Raising Employee Pay on Manager-Employee Relationships Yin Huaxiang, Nanyang Technological University	Accounting

Fall 2023
Date	Presenter and topic	Organizing Group
September 14	Credit Rating under Ambiguity Stefan Hirth, Aarhus University	Finance
September 21	Liquidity Forecasts and Stock Returns Claus Schmitt, Erasmus University	Finance
October 12	Danish Finance Institute annual meeting	Finance
October 26	Use of Proceeds in Private Equity-Backed Initial Public Offerings Benjamin Hammer, Lancaster University	Finance
October 27	SDU Honorary Doctor of 2023: Being at the Right Place at the Right Time Thomas Hemmer, Rice University	Accounting
November 2	Trade Credit in the Digital Age: The Role of Cybersecurity Risk Yanlei Zhang, CBS	Accounting
November 9	High Frequency Traders without Trading Darya Yuferova, NHH	Finance
November 23	Philipp Schreck, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg	Accounting

Spring 2023
Date	Presenter and topic	Organizing Group
June 19	Moral Hazard and The Value of Information: A Structural Approach / Ethical Noise Jeremy Bertomeu, Washington University in St. Louis	Accounting
June 8	Navigating Through the Noise: The Effect of Color-Coded Performance Feedback on Decision-Making Victor Maas, University of Amsterdam	Accounting
May 25	Conservative Holdings, Aggressive Trades: Ambiguity, Learning, and Equilibrium Flows Thomas Dangl, Universität Wien	Finance
May 10	Voluntary Disclosure in the Presence of Potentially Fake Public News Ilan Guttman, New York University	Accounting
April 27	A Principal-Agent Framework for Optimal Incentives in Renewable Investments Annika Kemper, Bielefeld University	Finance
February 15	Contracting on Value Jonathan Bonham, University of Chicago	Accounting

Fall 2022
Date	Presenter and topic	Organizing Group
November 24	Lieske Coumans Tilburg School of Economics and Management Robust Hedging of Terminal Wealth under Interest Rate Risk and Inflation Risk	Finance
November 3	Leyla Yusifzada Aarhus University How does subordinated debt affect the cost of capital for banks?	Finance
September 29	Jeremiah W. Bentley University of Massachusetts Amherst Show me the money! Supply and demand misalignment for tangible rewards in business	Accounting

Spring 2022
Feb 24	Eva Labro UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School Managing Employee Retention Concerns: Evidence from US Census Data
May 5	Jake Zureich Tilburg University Do public disclosures of physician performance improve patient care? The role of behavioral factors
June 16	Iván Marinovic Stanford University Cancel Culture and Social Learning

Autumn 2021
Sept 9	Jana Holze (Leibniz Universität Hannover)
Sept 29	Markus Nöth (University of Hamburg) “Disruption Opportunities: Cab Drivers’ Target-focused and Optimizing Behavior”
Oct 7	DFI Annual Conference
Oct 14	Wei Wu (Texas A&M)
Oct 28	Yehuda Izhakian (NYU Stern)
Nov 4	Marcin Kacpercyk (Imperial College London)
Nov 11	Nordic Accounting Conference
Nov 18	Florian Heider (European Central Bank)

Spring 2021
March 4	Julian Thimme, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
April 8	Alexander Hillert, Goethe University Frankfurt
April 22	Christian Heyerdahl-Larsen, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University
May 6	DFI retreat
June 3	6th SDU Finance Workshop

Fall 2020
November 12	Criminals, Bankruptcy, and Cost of Debt Kasper Regenburg Jønsson, CBS
November 13	The Impact of Joint Risk Disclosure on Auditor Liability: Evidence from China Jiahe Liu, University of Texas at El Paso

Spring 2020
March 5	Marcus Opp, Stockholm School of Economics Regulatory Forbearance in the U.S. Insurance Industry: The Effects of Eliminating Capital Requirements
June 11	5th SDU Finance Workshop

2019
March 14	Markus Schmid, St. Gallen As California goes, so goes the nation? The impact of board gender quotas on firm performance and the director labor market
April 4	Jan Wrampelmeyer, VU Amsterdam Liquidity Risk and Funding Cost
April 11	Grzegorz Pawlina, Lancaster University
May 9	Kim Peijnenburg, EDHEC
June 25	Naomi Soderstrom, University of Melbourne Digital Insiders and Informed Trading before Earnings Announcement
September 23	Ilan Cooper, BI Oslo
October 3	Julien Cujean, University of Bern. Endogenous Knowledge Cycles and Corporate Investment
October 24	Henry Jarva, Aalto University. Has financial reporting quality converged under IFRS? International differences in conditional conservatism
November 7	Markku Kaustia, Aalto University
November 21	Peter Schäfer, Technische Universität München. Relative Performance Evaluation, Strategic Differentiation and Endogenous Correlation Levels
November 26	Nikolaj Kirkeby Niebuhr, Aarhus University. Managerial Overconfidence, Conservatism and Self-Reported Success
December 5	Andrea Gamba, University of Warwick. Debt covenants and the value of commitment
December 16	Sebastian Kronenberger, Leibniz University Hannover. Trade-offs in the Design of Fair Value Standards

2018
February 28	Martin Holzhacker, Michigan State University
March 22	Evgeny Lyandres, Boston University Owners' portfolio diversification and firm investment: Theory and evidence from private and public firms
April 26	Ralf Elsas, LMU The dark side of short-selling
May 3	Tim Adam, HU Berlin
May 9	Michael Zierhut, HU Berlin The Arbitrage Pricing Theory in Incomplete Markets
May 17	Christopher Hennessy, London Business School Beyond random assignment: Credible inference of causal effects in dynamic economies
May 23	Christian Wagner, CBS What is the expected return on a stock?
June 25	Stefan Schantl, University of Melbourne Corporate Fraud, Public Enforcement, and the Dual Role of Investor Litigation
September 6	Howard Kung, London Business School Size Premium Waves
September 20	Silvio Vismara, University Bergamo
October 4	Alexander Szimayer, University Hamburg Information Asymmetry and Bond Prices
October 25	Honorary Doctorate Professor at SDU in 2018 Anil Arya, Ohio State University Implications of Dual Distribution Channels
October 31	Nicole Branger, University Münster
November 8	Daniel Metzger, Stockholm School of Economics
November 15	3rd SDU Finance Workshop
November 16	Frank Zhou, University of Pennsylvania Management Forecasts and Competition for limited investors
December 6	Peter Feldhütter, Copenhagen Business School

2017
April 6	Angelo Ranaldo, University of St. Gallen Explaining the Failure of the Expectations Hypothesis with Short-Term Rates
April 20	Günter Strobl, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management Credit Ratings: Strategic Issuer Disclosure and Optimal Screening
May 17	Angelo Ditillo, Bocconi University Management Control Systems for Creative Teams: Managing Stylistic Creativity in Fashion Companies
May 18	Martin Ruckes, KIT Collateral in Corporate Financing
June 2	Hui Chen, University of Zürich Misreporting and Feedback Effect
September 7	Tim Kroencke, University of Basel How does the equity premium respond to monetary policy, and why?
September 28	Linda Sandris Larsen, Copenhagen Business School Consumption-smooting with Interest-Only Mortgages?
October 12	Joseph Gerakos, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth Prediction versus inducement and the informational efficiency of going concern opinions
October 20	Thomas Hemmer, Rice University Income Smoothing as Rational Equilibrium Behavior? A Second Look
October 26	Boris Nikolov, University of Lausanne
November 2	Ran Sun Lyng, Aarhus University
November 16	2nd SDU Finance Workshop
December 14	Marcel Fischer, University of Konstanz Spillover Effects in Residential House Prices
2016
March 17	Dong Yan, SSE Do Private Firms (Mis)Learn from the Stock Market?
March 31	Sakshi Girdhar, Groningen Practice Variation in Big-4 Transparency Reports
April 21	Esben Christensen, LBS Adjustable- or Fixed-rate Mortgages? Optimal Mortgage Choice with Idiosyncratic Income Risk
May 12	Paulo Maio, Hanken New evidence on conditional factor models
May 17	Shannon W. Anderson, UC Davis Evidence for the Decision-facilitating Feedback Role of Performance Measurement Systems
September 8	Matthias Mahlendorf, Frankfurt School of Finance and Management Relative Performance Evaluation and the Ratchet Effect Joint seminar with SOD, IMM
September 22	Martin Artz, Frankfurt School of Finance and Management Joint seminar with SOD, IMM
September 30	Diane Pierret, HEC University of Lausanne Lender of Last Resort versus Buyer of Last Resort – Evidence from the European Sovereign Debt Crisis
December 1	1st SDU Finance Workshop
December 1	Ron Giammarino, UBC Sauder School of Business Ambiguity and Corporate Finance
December 15	Sandra Kukec, Leibniz Universität Hannover Board Independence and Managerial Oversight in Dynamic Agency
2015
March 12	Laurent Calvet, HEC Paris Who are the value and growth investors?
April 23	Johann Reindl, BI Norwegian Business School Deleveraging Via Asset Sales: Agency Costs, Taxes, and Government Policies
June 1	Steve Huddart, Smeal College of Business at Penn State University Drs. Blackwell & Markov Infer Value from Accounting Signals
June 1	Stefano Giglio, Chicago Booth School of Business The price of variance risk
June 3	Ramona Westermann, CBS Debt covenant renegotiation and investment
August 27	Lars Peter Hansen, University of Chicago Sets of Models and Prices of Uncertainty
September 17	Isabel Casas, University of Southern Denmark Time varying GLS VAR: application to financial data
October 22	Naomi Soderstrom, University of Melbourne In Search of Money and Fame: Narcissistic Managers and MCS Incentive Design
October 29	Karin Thorburn, NHH Bergen Are stock-financed takeovers opportunistic?
November 12	Francisco Gomes, London Business School Background expenditure risk: Implications for household finances and psychological well-being
December 3	Daniel A. Rettl, Humboldt University of Berlin The stability of dividends and wages: effects of competitor inflexibility
2014
March 19	Jarrad Harford, University of Washington Mergers that Matter: The Value Impact of Economic Links
April 2	Jungsuk Han, Stockholm School of Economics Contractual Incompleteness, Limited Liability and Bubbles
May 8	Naciye Sekerci, Lund University Corporate Investment in Swedish Family Firms: Do Investment Horizon and Diversification Level of Family Owners Matter
May 22	Holger Kraft, Goethe University Frankfurt Asset pricing and consumption-portfolio choice with recursive utility and unspanned risk
June 3	Jochen Lawrenz, University of Innsbruck
September 4	Eva Ferreira, University of the Basque Country Time Varying Stock Market Comovements in Europe
September 25	Mia Hinnerich, Stockholm Business School Modelling and Forecasting the Term Structure of Futures Prices
October 2	Frank Moers, Maastricht University School of Business and Economics Implicit incentives for human capital acquisition
October 30	Morten Sørensen, Columbia Business School and Copenhagen Business School Skill and Luck in Private Equity Performance
November 6	Jonathan Glover, Carnegie Mellon University Team Incentives with Non-Verifiable Performance Measures
November 20	Albert Menkveld, VU University of Amsterdam Should Fast Money in Crowded Trades Be Avoided?
December 4	Jesper Rangvid, CBS Global economic growth and expected returns around the world
2013
February 4	Sergey Tsyplakov, University of South Carolina Incentive Effects of Contingent Capital
March 11	Kasper Larsen, CMU Incomplete Continuous-time Securities Markets with Stochastic Income Volatility
March 20	Geir Bjønnes, BI Sources of Information Advantage in the Foreign Exchange Market
April 4	Alexey Rubtsov, Aarhus University Portfolio management with stochastic interest rates and inflation ambiguity
April 9	Ilan Cooper, BI The Expected Returns and Valuations of Private and Public Firms
April 24	Lu Liu, Lund University A spatial analysis of international stock market linkages
May 14	Henrik Hasseltoft Aggregate news tone, stock returns, and volatility
May 29	Thomas Kokholm, Aarhus University Pricing and Hedging Derivatives in Contagious Markets
May 31	Kim Pettersson, Copenhagen Business School Auditor liability caps and economic consequences/efficacy
June 14	Marliese Uhrig-Homburg, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology A Heterogeneous Agents Equilibrium Model for the Term Structure of Bond Market Liquidity
September 11	Yves Rannou, Univeristy of Poitiers Influence of heterogeneous traders beliefs and information asymmetry in European carbon markets: A limit order book investigation
September 18	Florin Sabac, University of Alberta On the Stewardship Value of Soft Managerial Reports
September 19	Hans B. Christensen, University of Chicago Is Knowledge Power? The Effects of Price Transparency Regulation on Prices in the Healthcare Industry
October 24	Katarina Kvasnakova, Vienna Graduate School of Finance Is Imperfection Better? Evidence from Predicting Stock and Bond Returns
November 12	Peter Feldhütter, London Business School The Credit Spread Puzzle – Myth or Reality?
November 20	Hong Liu, Washington University in St.Louis, Olin Business School Short-sale Constraints, Bid-Ask Spreads, and Information Acquisition
2012
February 2	Hae Wong Jung CEO talent, CEO compensation, and product market competition
February 16	Afrasiab Mirza Illiquidity, fire-sales and capital structure
March 8	Marliese Uhrig-Homburg, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Sovereign credit risk
March 13	Grzegorz Pawlina, Lancaster University External monitoring, managerial entrenchment and corporate cash holdings
March 15	Chris Chapman, Imperial College, London Designing effective cost systems for cost management: Evidence from the Field
March 27	Hening Liu, University of Manchester Ambiguity Aversion and Asset Prices in Production Economies
June 13	Helene Samyschew, Europa-Universität Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder) Global risk premia and sentiment
September 11	David Lando, Copenhagen Business School Financial Sector Linkages and the Dynamics of Bank and Sovereign Credit Spreads
October 10	Sandy Suardi, La Trobe University, Melbourne Factor Reversal in the Euro Zone Stock Returns: Evidence from the Crisis Period
October 25	Naomi Rothenberg, University of Memphis Communication and Information Sharing in Teams
November 6	Christian Heyerdahl-Larsen, London Business School Disagreement about Inflation and the Yield Curve

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