Finance brown bag seminars

The Finance subject organizes brown bag seminars in cooperation with the Accounting subject.


Seminars 2025

Date Presenter Paper
Niclas Meyer (Hanken) Insider trading around environmental lawsuits
Jukka Kettunen (Copenhagen Business School) Green transition disclosure laws and plant assets
Aaron Afzali (Hanken) The assurance costs of mandatory sustainability reporting: Preliminary evidence from the CSRD
Gilad Livne (Queen Mary University of London) The impact of the FRC audit inspection program on audit effort and audit fees
Sean Cao (University of Maryland) AI and Fintech research
16.06.2025 David Cabreros (University of Valladolid) Responsible and irresponsible practices in a firm's ESG strategy: the two-fold effect of CEO overconfidence
16.06.2025 Ingrid Serrano Bran (University of Deusto) ESG investing and environmental impact: Do investor preferences align with sustainability goals?
16.06.2025 Anastassia Vilderson (Florida Atlantic University) Directors’ expertise and corporate performance
20.05.2025 Tra Tham (Hanken) Key audit matters in climate risk reporting: Enhancing assurance and regulatory compliance
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Seminars 2024

Date Presenter Paper
Orthodoxia Kyriacou
(Middlesex University London)
Breaking the chains and framing the links: How Big 4 accounting firms normalize modern slavery
Emilio Marti
(Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University)
Relying on other stakeholders to make companies more sustainable: Ethnographic insights from a shareholder engagement fund
Dennis Sundvik
(Hanken)
Audit adjustments and financial reporting quality in private firms
Jan Bebbington
(Lancaster University)
Accounting infrastructures for biodiversity outcomes
Pirta Wentzel
(Hanken)
When management controls make the rules for innovation: two case studies of established firms’ R&D activities
Milda Tylaite
(Stockholm School of Economics)
The choice of accounting standards under competing tax and external reporting preferences: Evidence from intangible asset reporting in small private firms
Qinglan Huang
(Hanken)
Exploring mandatory sustainability reporting in China: Economic implications and regulatory effectiveness
Thorsten Sellhorn
(LMU Munich School of Management)
Climate disclosure in financial statements
Kris Hardies
(University of Antwerp)
The importance of audit partners in explaining audit outcomes: A stylized fact?
16.1.2024 Laurent Weill
(University of Strasbourg)
Do not expect cheaper loan before elections: European evidence

Seminars 2023

Date Presenter Paper
Lee Parker
(Adam Smith Business School, The University of Glasgow)
Third sector crisis management & resilience: messages for accountability & sustainability
Shipeng Yan
(Hong Kong University)
Religious investors and corporate decarbonization
Zhanel DeVides
(Penn State Abington)
Are analysts overly optimistic around earnings strings?
Aaron Afzali
(Hanken)
The impact of relative CEO pay on employee productivity
Eija Vinnari
(University of Tampere)
Accounting, accountability and animals: negotiating the promises and pitfalls of quantification.
Sabine Dörry
(Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research)
Linking alternative economies and sustainable finance with regional development: the examples of France, Germany and Luxembourg.
Aaron Afzali
(Hanken)
The impact of relative CEO pay on employee productivity
Katharina Fellnhofer
(ETH Zürich)
Investor intuition promotes gender equality in access to finance
 
Clara Zhou
(Macquarie University)
Green reckoning in the ESG landscape: Unveiling reputational penalties for environmental violations
Sean Cao
(University of Maryland)
An overview of the research on AI and disclosure
David Cabreros Gonzalez
(University of Valladolid)
Boards, CEO overconfidence and ESG: A two-fold perspective distinguishing between good and bad practices
Gilad Livne
(University of Bristol)
Does the market react to the textual properties of M&A conference calls?
Othmar Lehner
(Hanken)
Developing political theory performativity: An agential realism perspective on social and environmental accounting
Ali Nickpour
(Aalto University School of Business)
Big 4 audit partners’ political activism and audit quality
Paolo Quattrone
(Alliance Manchester Business School)
Beyond transparency? Common good and value-added planning and budgeting at the Istituto per la Ricostruzione Industriale (IRI)
Janicke Rasmussen
(BI Norwegian Business School)
Accounting (performance) on the slippery slope: using CEOs as scapegoats to fix investor disenchantment
Sinh Thoi Mai
(Hanken)
Do investors invest due to their impression of facial trustworthiness? Evidence from Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs)?
Guillermo Badía
(University of Deusto)
Behavioural finance in sustainable finance: could socially responsible investors be more rational than conventional ones?
Mikael Homanen
(PRI)
Which institutional investors drive corporate sustainability?