| Past Seminars |
| Date |
Speaker |
Topic |
| September 25, 2024 |
Ryan Sommerfeldt, Birmingham Young University |
Do Words Matter? The Effect of Recognition Narrative Specificity and Prosocial Motivation on Work Effort |
| September 18, 2024 |
Ben Commerford, University of Kentucky |
Using Unconscious Thought to Improve Evaluations of Complex Accounting Estimates |
| September 11, 2024 |
Christoph Feichter, WU Vienna |
Time Budget Uncertainty and Creativity |
| June 12, 2024 |
McKay Jones, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
Using Reasonable and Rational Guidance from Management as an Informal Control |
| May 29, 2024 |
Adam Presslee, University of Waterloo |
The Effort Effects of Employee Recognition Source in Highly Interdependent Group Tasks |
| May 8, 2024 |
Jordan Samet, University of Illinois, Gies College of Business |
The Effects of Performance Targets on Employee Learning |
| April 24, 2024 |
Sebastian Stirnkorb, University of Amsterdam |
Activating Auditors’ Willingness to Address Risk: A Field Experiment Focusing Auditors on Cognitive Dissonance and Fraud |
June 22, 2023
|
Willie Choi, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
Does allowing employees to set their own pay motivate greater effort? A re-examination of potential drivers |
May 4, 2023
|
Feng Yeo, University of South Carolina |
Can Firms Hide and Guide the Narrative? The Effects of Social Media
Reply Civility and Reply Hiding Behavior on Investors' Judgments |
| March 9, 2023 |
Nicole Cade, University of Pittsburgh |
The Effect of News-Trade Integration on Investors' Perceptions of News |
| December 7, 2022 |
Jeremiah W. Bentley, University of Massachusets Amherst |
The Effect of Reporting Frequency and Summary Metrics on Subjective Performance Evaluation |
| November 16, 2022 |
Zheng Leitter, Nanyang Technological University |
Business Acquisition Disclosures: The Effect of Identifying Intangible Assets in Investors' Judgements |
| September 14, 2022 |
Gary Hecht, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
Then Effects of Compensation Mechanism Variation on Team-Members' Effort and Performance |
| July 28, 2022 |
Eric Chan, University Texas at Austin |
Nonprofit Pay, Market Pay Transparency andGovernance |
| May 4, 2022 |
Nick Seybert, Robert H. Smith School of Business |
Signaling in Accounting Job Postings: Seductive Language of Narcissists |
| May 18, 2022 |
Yao Yu, University of Massachusetts Amherst |
How Do Accounting Estimate Favorability and Method Similarity Influence Investors' Judgements of Financial Reporting Quality? |
| November 3, 2021 |
Jake Zureich, Tilburg University |
The (un)controllability principle: The benefits of holding employees accountable for uncontrollable factors |
| October 27, 2021 |
Bei Shi, University of Amsterdam |
The Effect of Relative Performance Information Level on Team Performance |
| October 13, 2021 |
Evelien Reusen, Erasmus University Rotterdam |
When Guidance Backfires: The Effect of Supervisor Communication and Prior Control Choice on Managers’ Cooperation with External Partners |
| June 2, 2021 |
Sara Bormann, Goethe University Frankfurt |
Trade Secret Protection and Firms’ Internal Transparency |
| Mai 5, 2021 |
Eddy Cardinaels, Tilburg University |
Steering Through the Fog: How Color Coding Improves Decision Making in Noisy Environments |
| December 2, 2020 |
Katlijn Haesebrouck, Maastricht University |
The ripple effect: How managers’ affective reactions to manager-level controls have a contagious impact on subordinates |
| November 19, 2020 |
Ryan Guggenmos, Cornell University |
The Relationship between Non-GAAP Earnings and Aggressive Estimates in Reported GAAP Numbers |
| November 10, 2020 |
Matthias Mahlendorf, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management |
Budget Expectations gone wrong – Budgeting Biases and its Consequences |
| September 29, 2020 |
Christoph Feichter, WU Vienna |
The Impact of Short-term Financial Information on Creativity Assessments for New Product Ideas: A Social Context Perspective |
| March 11, 2020 |
Victor Maas, University of Amsterdam |
The effects of group incentives and transparency on managers' strategic behaviour |
| December 4, 2019 |
Isabella Grabner, WU Vienna |
The complementarity between CSR disclosures and the use of CSR-based performance measures in CEO annual incentive contracts |
| September 11, 2019 |
Karen Sedatole, Emory University |
The folly of forecasting: The effects of a disaggregated demand forecasting system on forecast error, forecast positive bias, and inventory levels |
| July 16, 2019 |
Laura Wang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Cheating for the Cause: The Effects of Performance-Based Pay on Socially-Oriented Misreporting |
| July 3, 2019 |
Andrew Newman, University of South Carolina |
The effects of performance feedback systems in decentralized workplaces |
| June 19, 2019 |
Jasmin Bol, Tulane University |
Status Motives and Agent-to-Agent Information Sharing |
| October 31, 2018 |
Joachim Gassen, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin |
Financial Transparency of Private Firms: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment |
| September 19, 2018 |
H. Scott Asay, Assistant Professor of Accounting, The University of Iowa, Tippie College of Business |
Consumer Responses to Corporate Tax Planning |
| September 11, 2018 |
Karl Schuhmacher, Emory University |
Leading by Example: The Effect of Contract Design on the Ability to Lead |
| September 11, 2018 |
Michael Wolff & Sebastian Firk, Georg-August Universität Göttingen |
The Dark Side of Clawbacks: Clawback Provisions and a Firm’s Strategic Repertoire |
| April 26, 2018 |
Dennis Fehrenbacher, Monash University |
The influence of subordinate bonuses and supervisor process accountability on supervisors’ attention and performance evaluations |
| March 14, 2018 |
Harm Schütt, LMU München |
Competition in Financial News Markets and Trading Activity |
| November 2, 2017 |
Kristina Rennekamp, Cornell University |
Firm Performance, Reporting Goals, and Language Choices in Narrative Disclosures |
| October 18, 2017 |
Frank Moers, University of Maastricht |
The Effect of Target Setting on Employees’ Investment in Long-Term Productivity Improvements |
| September 21, 2017 |
Shankar Venkataraman, Georgia Institute of Technology |
Curbing Earnings Management: Experimental Evidence on how Clawbacks Provisions and Board Monitoring Affect Managers’ use of Discretion |
| June 8, 2017 (In Fribourg) |
Anette Mikes, University of Lausanne |
Opening the Black Box of Board-Level Control: A Longitudinal Study of Board Accounts, Risk Management and Accounting |
| May 15, 2017 |
Bill Tayler, Brigham Young University |
Contracts, Controllability, Fairness, and Misreporting |
| February 22, 2017 |
Georgios A. Papanastasopoulos, University of Piraeus |
Asymmetries in the Persistence and Pricing of Accruals |
| October 19, 2016 |
Peter Kroos, University of Amsterdam |
Pursuing Business Models and Target Setting: The Interplay between Customized and Uniform Targets |
| September 20, 2016 |
Sofia Lourenço, Lisbon School of Economics & Management |
What Do Employees Really Want? Preference-Performance Inconsistencies Regarding Work Incentives |
| May 31, 2016 |
Michael Wiliamson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
The Role of Incentives in Sustaining High-Creativity Production |
| May 19, 2016 |
Brian White, University of Texas at Austin |
Linked Financial Statement Presentation, Causal Reasoning and Risk Assessments |
| May 4, 2016 |
Jeffrey Hales, Georgia Institute of Technology |
Positive and Negative Effects of Disaggregated Reporting: An Experimental Examination of Managerial Opportunism and Capital Investment |
| April 13, 2016 |
Marcel von Rinsum, Erasmus University of Rotterdam |
How Accountability Influences Investment Decision Quality in a Balanced Scorecard Setting: an Eye-tracking Experiment |
| March 23, 2016 (In Fribourg) |
Lukas Roth, University of Alberta |
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| March 16, 2016 |
Max Hewitt, Eller College of Management, University of Arizona |
How Suspicions of the Method of Earnings Management and its Underlying Motive Affect Investors' Trust in Managers and Willingness to Invest in the Firm |
| February 3, 2016 |
Michael Stich, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg |
Does Sustainability Assurance Improve Managerial Investement Decisions? |
| September 2, 2015 |
Steven Kachelmeier, University of Texas |
Prompting the Benefit of the Doubt: The Joint Effects of Auditor Independence and Measurement Uncertainty on Audit Adjustments |
| June 12, 2015 |
Jeremy Doughit, University of Arizona |
The Effect of Endogenous Contract Selection on Budgetary Slack |
| May 5, 2015 * |
Huaxiang Yin, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore |
The Role of the Employees’ Knowledge of Manager Behavior and Manager Discretion |
| April 29, 2015 * |
Ivo Tafkov, Georgia State University, Atlanta |
Managerial Discretion over Relative Performance Information Provision: Implications for Manager and Employee Behavior |
| March 10, 2015 |
Jochen Bigus, Free University of Berlin |
Bank relationships and private firms’ financial reporting opacity |
| January 20, 2015 * |
James Hesford, Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne |
Do Higher Wages Pay for Themselves? An Intra-firm Test of the Effect of Wages on Employee Performance |
| November 27, 2014 * |
Baohua Xin, University of Toronto |
Real Effects of Accounting Uniformity: Implications of Higher-Order Beliefs |
