These are past Research Seminar events of the Department of Accounting & Sustainability Reporting

Accounting Research Seminar

Mandatory Energy Assessments and Corporate Climate Behavior*

06/25/26 14:15 - 15:30
Campus Westend, HoF 2.45/Boston
Jody Grewal (University of Toronto) - Part of the TRR 266 Seminar Series
Accounting Research Seminar

The Role of Own-Source Tax Revenue in Disciplining Local Government Spending

06/18/26 14:15 - 15:30
Campus Westend, HoF 1.28/Shanghai
Marco Errico (Tilburg University) - Part of the TRR 266 Seminar Series
Accounting Research Seminar

More Feedback, Less Learning: The Disclosure Trap

06/11/26 14:15 - 15:30
Campus Westend, HoF 1.28/Shanghai
Research Seminar - Hui Chen (University of Zurich) - Part of the TRR 266 Seminar Series
Accounting Research Seminar

Stealth Law: Legal Intermediaries and Antitrust Enforcement

05/21/26 14:15 - 15:30
Campus Westend, HoF 2.45/Boston
Alexandra Scherf (Londond School of Economics) - Part of the TRR 266 Seminar Serie
Accounting Research Seminar

Who gets the benefit of the doubt? CEO gender and news about firm performance*

05/07/26 14:15 - 15:30
Campus Westend, HoF 1.28/Shanghai
Marcela Carvalho (Lonodon Business School) - Part of the TRR 266 Seminar Series
Accounting Research Seminar

Internal Information Quality and Performance Metric Selection

04/15/26 14:15 - 15:30
Campus Westend, RuW 4.202
Wayne Guay (The Wharton School) - Part of the TRR 266 Seminar Series

We examine the role of firms’ internal information quality (IIQ) in designing executive incentive contracts. We…

We examine the role of firms’ internal information quality (IIQ) in designing executive incentive contracts. We find that higher IIQ is associated with a greater number of performance metrics…

Accounting Research Seminar

Standardization, AI, and the processing costs of sustainability disclosures in the field

02/09/26 11:00 - 12:15
Campus Westend, RuW 4.202
Research Seminar - Victor Wagner (LMU Munich Management School for Management)

This paper studies how standardization and Artificial Intelligence (AI) affect the processing costs of…

This paper studies how standardization and Artificial Intelligence (AI) affect the processing costs of sustainability disclosures. Using field data from a large data collection project, I…

Accounting Research Seminar

Corporate project sharing in GitHub

11/10/25 13:00 - 14:15
RuW - 1.201
Jennifer Wu Tucker (University of Florida) - Part of the TRR 266 Seminar Series

We examine why firms publicly disclose their innovations on GitHub and whether the disclosure influences their…

We examine why firms publicly disclose their innovations on GitHub and whether the disclosure influences their ability to acquire and retain talent. We find that firms are more likely to make…

Accounting Research Seminar

Mandatory Pay Range Disclosures in Job Postings – Early Evidence

10/22/25 13:30 - 14:30
HoF 2.45 (Boston)
Edith Leung (Tilburg University) - Part of the TRR 266 Seminar Series
Accounting Research Seminar

Polarizing Corporations: Does Talent Flow to “Good” Firms?

07/10/25 14:15 - 15:30
HoF 2.45 (Boston)
Thomas Rauter (University of Chicago Booth School of Business) - Part of the TRR 266 Seminar Series