Finance brown bag seminars
The Finance subject organizes brown bag seminars in cooperation with the Accounting subject.
| 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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Previous Seminars
| 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 |
| 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 |
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| 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? |