Accounting and Finance Events and Seminars
The Division of Accounting and Finance has one of the most active visiting speaker programmes in the UK. If you have questions regarding the seminars, please contact Sangita Mistry on 0161 275 0447 or sangita.mistry@manchester.ac.uk
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Wednesday 29 January 1:30-2.45pm, Room 4.010 |
Finance |
Douglas Cumming Florida Atlantic University |
Manipulation and Innovation |
| Wednesday 29 January 3.00-4:15pm, Room 4.010 |
Accounting |
Bjorn Jorgensen |
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Wednesday 5 February 1.30-2.45pm, Room 4.010 |
Accounting |
Eddy Cardinaels Tilburg University |
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Wednesday 5 February 3.00-4.15pm, Room 4.010 |
Finance |
Xintong Zhan CHUK |
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| Wednesday 12 February 1.30-2.15pm, Room 4.010 | Finance |
Laurent Fresard SFI Lugano |
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Wednesday 12 February 3.00-4.15pm, Room 4.010 |
Accounting |
Niamh Brennan University College Dublin | |
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Wednesday 17 February 1.30-3.00pm, Room 4.010 |
Accounting |
Annette Quayle QUI Business School |
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Wednesday 26 February 3.00-4.15pm, Room 4.010 |
Accounting |
Mahmoud Ezzamel Cardiff University |
Past events
2018/19
| Date | Venue | Type | Speaker | Title of Paper |
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Wednesday 4 December 1:30-2:45pm |
Finance |
Eric Ghysels, UNC Chapel Hill |
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Thursday 5 December 2:00-3:15pm |
Accounting |
Yves Gendron, Laval University |
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Wednesday 11 December 1:30-2:45pm |
Accounting | Rita Samiolo, King’s College, University of London | ||
| Wednesday 19 September 2-3:30pm | Theatre 2 Crawford House | Finance | Torben Andersen Kellogg School of Management | The Pricing of Tail Risk and the Equity Premium |
| Wednesday 19 September 2-4pm | Room B4 AMBS East | Accounting | Tony Kang University of Nebraska-Lincoln | Internet Penetration and Accrual-Based Earnings Management: International Evidence |
| Wednesday 26 September 2-3:30pm | Room 5.1 Crawford House | Finance | Maria Cecilia Bustamante University of Maryland | Strategic Capacity Choice and Supply Chain Risk |
| Wednesday 3 October 2-3.30pm | Room B3 AMBS East | Finance | ||
| Wednesday 10 October 2-4pm | Room 5.1 Crawford House | Accounting | Yasmine Chahed LSE | Disrupted Disruptors: How Technology Investments Change the Professional Firm |
| Wednesday 17 October 2:30-4pm | Room B3 AMBS East | Finance | Paolo Fulghieri University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Uncertainty and Contracting in Organizations |
| Wednesday 17 October 2-4pm | Room 5.1 Crawford House | Accounting | Internal qualitative research seminar | |
| Thursday 18 October 2-3:30pm | Room 5.1 Crawford House | Finance | Ron Masulis University of New South Wales (sabbatical in Cambridge) | Private Benefits and Corporate Investments: The Case of Corporate Philanthropy |
| Wednesday 24 October 2-3.30pm | Room B10 AMBS East | Finance | Stephen Figlewski NYU Stern | An American Call IS Worth More than a European Call: The Value of American Exercise When the Market is Not Perfectly Liquid |
| Wednesday 24 October 2-4pm | Room 5.1 Crawford House | Accounting | Ed Vosselman Radboud University | Accounting as a mattering practice: exploring the full potential of the performativism |
| Wednesday 31 October 2-3:30pm | Room B3 AMBS East | Finance | Lyndon Moore University of Melbourne (sabbatical in Dublin) | Rejected Stock Exchange Applicants: the fish that John West rejects |
| Wednesday 31 October 2-4pm | Room 5.1 Crawford House | Accounting | Martin Messner University of Innsbruck | Boundary Work and the Shifting Relationships between Accounting Technologies: Insights from the Emerging Field of Beyond Budgeting |
| Wednesday 7 November 2-3.30pm | Room B10 AMBS East | Finance | Richard Payne Cass Business School | The Skewness of the Stock Market at Long Horizons |
| Wednesday 7 November 2-3.30pm | Room 5.1 Crawford House | Accounting | Robert Charnock University of Birmingham | Civil Society as a Quasi-Regulator: A study of emergent coordination in decentred climate governance |
| Wednesday 14 November 2-3:30pm | Room B10 AMBS East | Finance | Enrico Onali Nottingham University | Debtholder Monitoring and Earnings Opacity |
| Friday 16 November 2-4pm | Room 5.1 Crawford House | Accounting | T J Wong University of Southern California | Politics and Idiosyncrasy of Information: Evidence from Financial Analysts' Earnings Forecasts in a Relationship-based Economy |
| Wednesday 21 November 2-3:30pm | Room 4.206 University Place | Finance | Dimitris Petmezas Surrey Business School | Terrorist Attacks and Corporate Acquisitions |
| Wednesday 21 November 2-4pm | Room 5.1 Crawford House | Accounting | Mariann Liguori Queen's University Belfast | Justifying public-sector accounting change from the inside: ex-post reflections from three countries |
| Wednesday 28 November 2-3:30pm | Room B3 AMBS East | Finance | Eser Arisoy NEOMA Business School | Anticipated Regret in Financial Decision Making under Volatility Uncertainty |
| Thursday 29 November 2-3:30pm | Room 5.1 Crawford House | Finance | Ashwini Agrawal LSE | Takeovers and Employee Job Search |
| Wednesday 5 December 2-3:30pm | Room 5.1 Crawford House | Finance | Hans Degryse KU Leuven | Inspect what you expect to get respect Can bank supervisors kill zombie lending? |
| Wednesday 5 December 2-4pm | Room 5.205 University Place | Accounting | Mingzhu Wang King's College London | The Way to a Star Sell-side Analyst: Canvassing or Performing? |
| Wednesday 19 December 2-4pm | Room 5.1 Crawford House | Accounting | Igor Goncharov Lancaster University | (Why) Do Central Banks Care about Their Profits? |
| Wednesday 30 January 1:30-3pm | Room 4.011 AMBS | Finance | Ruediger Fahlenbrach Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne | Why Are Firms with More Managerial Ownership Worth Less? |
| Wednesday 6 February 1:30-3pm | Room 4.011 AMBS | Accounting | Joaquim Miranda Sarmento Lisbon School of Economics (ISEG) | Renegotiating Public-Private Partnerships |
| Wednesday 13 February 3-4:15pm | Room 4.011 AMBS | Accounting | Luc Paugam HEC | Policing Financial Markets: The Rhetorical Battle of Whistleblowing Short Sellers |
| Wednesday 20 February 3-4:15pm | Room 4.011 AMBS | Finance | Oliver Spalt Tilburg University | Proxy Variables in Empirical Corporate Finance: Why Does Size Matter for Bidder Announcement Returns? |
| Wednesday 20 February 1:30-2:45pm | Room 4.011 AMBS | Accounting | Renata Stenka University of Reading | Exploring regulatory habitus: The hegemonic discourse of the IASB |
| Wednesday 27 February 3-4:15pm | Room 4.011 AMBS | Accounting | Vaughan Radcliffe Ivey Business School | Pulling at the Boundaries: Boundary Work and the Auditing of Government Advertising in Ontario |
| Tuesday 5 March 2-3:15pm | Room 3.060 AMBS | Finance | Yuri Tserlukevich Arizona State University | Competition, No-Arbitrage, and Systematic Risk |
| Wednesday 6 March 1:30-2:45pm | Room 4.011 AMBS | Accounting | Jim Ohlson Hong Kong Polytechnic University | Accruals and Forecasting |
| Friday 15 March 2-4pm | Room 3.014 AMBS | Accounting | Ted Christensen University of Georgia | |
| Wednesday 20 March 1:30-2:45pm | Room 4.011 AMBS | Accounting | Yuping Jia Frankfurt School of Finance and Management | An Examination of Earnings Management that is Beneficial to Incumbent Shareholders |
| Wednesday 20 March 3-4:15pm | Room 4.011 AMBS | Accounting | Mary Canning University College Dublin | Embedding offshoring within an audit firm: An exploration of the consequences |
| Thursday 21 March 2-3:15pm | Room 3.060 AMBS | Finance | Paolo Pasquariello University of Michigan (Ross) | Speculation with Information Disclosure |
| Wednesday 27 March 1:30-2:45pm | Room 4.011 AMBS | Finance | Dirk Jenter London School of Economics | Does Board Size Matter? |
| Wednesday 27 March 3-4:15pm | Room 4.011 AMBS | Accounting | Jihun Bae Erasmus School of Economics | Anti-Pledging Policy, CEO Compensation and Investment |
| Wednesday 3 April 2-3:15pm | Room 4.011 AMBS | Accounting | Qi Chen Duke University | A Balance-Sheet-Based Measure of Accounting Quality |
| Wednesday 24 April 1:30-2:45pm | Room 4.011 AMBS | Finance | Amir Rubin Simon Fraser University | Guidance Governance and Firm Performance |
| Wednesday 1 May 3-4:15pm | Room 4.011 AMBS | Finance | Renee Adams University of Oxford | Corporate Gender Culture |
| Wednesday 1 May 1:30-2:45pm | Room 4.011 AMBS | Accounting | Keith Hoskin University of Birmingham | |
| Thursday 2 May 2-3:15pm | Room 3.013 AMBS | Finance | Adam Reed University of North Carolina | Anomaly Time |
| Tuesday 7 May 2-4pm | Room 3.013 AMBS | Accounting | Chung-Yu Hung University of Melbourne | Does Peer-Specific Knowledge Improve Relative Performance Evaluation? |
| Wednesday 8 May 1:30-2:45pm | Room 4.011 AMBS | Finance | Stefanos Delikouras University of Miami | Asset Pricing With and Without Garbage: Cross-sectional Implications of Alternative Consumption Measures |
| Wednesday 8 May 1:30-2:45pm | The Penthouse AMBS | Accounting | Carlos Larrinaga Gonzalez Universidad de Burgos | Can accounting mediate between science and culture in the Anthropocene |
| Wednesday 15 May 3-4:15pm | Room 4.011 AMBS | Finance | Kim Christensen Aarhus University | High-Frequency Trading During Flash Crashes: Walk of Fame or Hall of Shame? |
| Wednesday 15 May 1:30-2:45pm | Room 4.011 AMBS | Accounting | Sarah Kroechert Lancaster University | Exploratory Analysis of University President Compensation |
| Thursday 23 May 2-3:15pm | Room 4.011 | Finance | David Yermack New York University | Initial Coin Offerings: Financing Growth with Cryptocurrency Token Sales |
| Wednesday 29 May 2-3:15pm | Room 4.011 | Finance | Gideon Saar Cornell University | From Market Making to Matchmaking Does Bank Regulation Harm Market Liquidity? |
| Wednesday 5 June 1:30-2:45pm | Room 4.011 | Finance | Tarun Chordia Emory | Market Efficiency in Real Time: Evidence from Low Latency Activity around Earnings Announcements |
| Monday 10 June 2-3:15pm | Room 2.065 | Accounting | Agnes Cheng The Hong Kong Polytechnic University | Accounting Comparability and Short Selling Interest |
2017/18
| Date | Venue | Type | Speaker | Title of Paper |
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| Wednesday 4 October 2-4pm | Room 5.1 Crawford House | Accounting | Assist Prof Gianfranco Siciliano University of Bocconi | What's in a Name? Eponymous Private Firms and Financial Reporting Quality |
| Thursday 5 October 2-4pm | Room 5.1 Crawford House | Finance | Assoc Prof Gustavo Manso University of California | Shareholder Litigation and Corporate Innovation |
| Wednesday 11 October 2-4pm | Room 5.1 Crawford House | Accounting | Assoc Prof Bertrand Malsch Queens University Canada | How to Become an Ex-Auditor: Exiting Work and Restorative Memory |
| Wednesday 18 October 2-4pm | Room 5.1 Crawford House | Finance | Dr Anastasios Kagkadis Lancaster University Management School | Forward Moments and Risk Premia Predictability |
| Wednesday 18 October 2-4pm | Theatre 2 Crawford House | Accounting | Assist Prof Anita Meidell Norwegian School of Economics | Risk Appetite and its Materalization in Risk Management Practices: A Case Study in the Aerospace Industry |
| Wednesday 25 October 2-4pm | Room 5.1 Crawford House | Finance | Prof Ran Duchin University of Washington | Dissecting Conglomerates |
| Wednesday 25 October 2-4.30pm | Room B6 AMBS East | Accounting | Prof Brendan O'Dwyer Alliance Manchester Business School | |
| Wednesday 1 November 10am-3pm | Theatre 2 Crawford House | Finance | Prof Michael Brennan UCLA Anderson School of Management | |
| Wednesday 1 November 2-4pm | Room 5.1 Crawford House | Accounting | Terhi Chakhovich (Postdoctoral Researcher) University of Turku | Time Rationalities: Complementing "The Orientation from the Present" and the Focus on "short" and "long terms" in Performance Measurement |
| Wednesday 8 November 2-4pm | Room 5.1 Crawford House | Finance | Prof Ian Marsh Cass Business School | Volatility and the Cross -Section of Returns on FX Options |
| Wednesday 15 November 2-4pm | Room 5.1 Crawford House | Finance | Mr Siyang Tian Cass Business School | Cross-Border Buyout Performance |
| Wednesday 22 November 2-4pm | Theatre 2 Crawford House | Finance | Prof Murillo Campello Cornell University | Exporting Uncertainty: The Impact of Brexit on Corporate America |
| Wednesday 22 November 2-4pm | Room 5.1 Crawford House | Accounting | Dr Jonathan Jona University of Melbourne | Measurement and Market Valuation of Climate Risk |
| Wednesday 29 November 2-4pm | Room 5.1 Crawford House | Finance | Assist Prof Gi Kim Warwick Business School | On the Dynamics of Corporate Bond Ownership |
| Wednesday 6 December 2-4pm | Room 5.1 Crawford House | Finance | Assist Prof Walter Pohl Norwegian School of Economics | Asset Pricing with Heterogeneous Agents and Long-Run Risk |
| Wednesday 6 December 2-4pm | Theatre 2 Crawford House | Accounting | Dr Shaohua He University of Lancaster | Do Financial Statements of Audit Firms Provide Information about Auditor Independence? |
| Wednesday 7 February 2-4pm | Theatre 2 Crawford House | Finance | Prof Peter Feldhutter Copenhagen Business School | Leveraged Buyouts and Credit Spread |
| Wednesday 7 February 2-4pm | Room 5.1 Crawford House | Accounting | Ms Saipriya Kamath London School of Economics | Ismorphism in Working Capital |
| Tuesday 13 February 4pm | Room G045 Dover Street | Accounting | Prof Ian Thomson University of Birmingham | Accountability, Maps and Inter-generational Equity: Evaluating the Nigerian Oil Spill Monitor |
| Tuesday 20 February 2-4pm | Room B3 AMBS East | Accounting | Professor Sheila Killian University of Limerick | Social Accounting and Co-creation of Corporate Legitimacy |
| Wednesday 28 February 2-4pm | Room 5.1 Crawford House | Finance | Prof Andrew Patton Duke University | What You See is Not What You Get: The Costs of Trading Market Anomalies |
| Wednesday 28 February 2-4pm | Room B7 AMBS East | Accounting | Prof Antti Rautiainen University of Jyvaskyla Finland | Hybridization or escalating conflicts in health care? The role of accounting as an affective technology |
| Wednesday 7 March 2-4pm | Theatre 2 Crawford House | Finance | Prof John Cotter University College Dublin | Nowhere to Run, Nowhere to Hide: Asset Diversification in a Flat World |
| Wednesday 7 March 2-4pm | Room 5.1 Crawford House | Accounting | Prof Chris Chapman University of Bristol | Values and Management Control in Practice: Routines of Measurement and Deliberation |
| Wednesday 14 March 2-4pm | Room 5.1 Crawford House | Finance | Prof Tyler Shumway University of Michigan | Can Individual Investors Time Bubbles? |
| Wednesday 14 March 2-4pm | Room B7 AMBS East | Accounting | Prof Marie-Soleil Tremblay Ecole nationale d'administration publique in Quebec Canada | When do Accounting Firms Produce Public Outcomes? (Re)Positioning the Public Interest in Auditing |
| Wednesday 21 March 2-4pm | Room B3 AMBS East | Finance | Prof Chu Zhang HKUST Business School | Why Did the Investment-Cash Flow Sensitivity Decline over Time? |
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Wednesday 21 March 1.45-3.15pm 3.30-5pm |
Room B7 AMBS East
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Joint Accounting Seminars
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Prof Jim Ohlson New York University
Prof Matthias Mahlendorf Frankfurt School of Finance and Management |
Researchers' Data Analysis Choices: An Excess of False Positives Expectation Accuracy, Cost Behavior and Slippery Prices |
| Wednesday 18 April 2-4pm | Room B6 AMBS East | Accounting | Mr Ruishen Zhang Frankfurt School of Finance and Management | Language Commonality and Sell-side Information Production |
| Monday 23 April 2-4pm | Room B3 AMBS East | Accounting | Prof Sugata Roychowdhury Boston College | Does Litigation Encourage or Deter Real Earnings Management? |
| Wednesday 25 April 2-4pm | Room 5.1 Crawford House | Finance | Assoc Prof Vidhi Chhaochharia University of Miami | Child Care Provision and Women's Careers in Firms |
| Wednesday 25 April 2-4pm | Room B7 AMBS East | Accounting | Prof Ulf Bruggemann Humboldt-Universitat Zu Berlin | Asset Reclassification and Bank Recapitalization during the Financial Crisis |
| Wednesday 2 May 2-4pm | Room 5.1 Crawford House | Accounting | Prof Jeffery Unerman Royal Holloway University of London | Encoding, decoding and recoding value and capital in integrated reporting: from policy to practice |
| Wednesday 2 May 2-4pm | Theatre 2 Crawford House | Finance | Assist Prof Pat Akey Rotman School of Management | The Limits of Limited Liability: Evidence from Industrial Pollution |
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Thursday 3 May 2-4pm |
Room 5.1 Crawford House | Finance | Assist Prof Jan Bena University of British Columbia | Multinational Firms and the International Transmission of Crises: The Real Economy Channel |
| Wednesday 9 May 2-4pm | Room 5.1 Crawford House | Finance | Pia Helbing Dublin | The Determinants of IPO Withdrawal - Evidence from Europe |
| Wednesday 16 May 2-4pm | Room 5.1 Crawford House | Finance | Prof Christian Wagner Copenhagen Business School | What is the Expected Return on a Stock? |
| Wednesday 23 May 2-4pm | Room 5.1 Crawford House | Finance | Prof Chris Veld Monash University | The Role of Institutional Investors |
| Thursday 31 May 2-4pm | Room 5.1 Crawford House | Finance | Prof Bohui Zhang UNSW | Panda Games: Corporate Disclosure in the Eclipse of Search |
| Wednesday 6 June 2-4pm | Room 5.1 Crawford House | Finance | Prof Elizabeth Berger Cornell | Does Stock Mispricing Drive Firm Policies? Mutual Fund Fire Sales and Selection Bias |
