As of the 2023-24 academic year the seminars are jointly organized by:
The Finance & Accounting Department of MBS School of Business (France)
The Department of Banking & Finance of the University of Southampton (UK)
The Department of Finance & Accounting of the University of Surrey (UK)
2025-2026 Academic Year
Tuesday 30 September 2025, 17:00 (Paris Time): Professor Bill Francis, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Bill Francis is the Warren H. and Pauline U. Bruggeman Distinguished Professor of Finance at the Lally School of Management at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He conducts his research on issues in initial public offerings, corporate restructurings, and international asset-pricing. He has published numerous articles in reputable journals from various fields such as the Review of Financial Studies, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of Financial & Quantitative Analysis, The Accounting Review, Strategic Management Journal, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, etc. He serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Financial Stability.
Title of presentation: The Big Three and Green Innovation (by Francis B., Sharma Z., Waisman M.)
Thursday 30 October 2025, 17:00 (Paris Time): Professor Kristine W. Hankins, University of Kentucky, USA
Kristine Hankins is the William E. Seale Professor of Finance at the University of Kentucky. Her research interests include corporate finance and risk management and she has published in the Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Management Science, Harvard Business Review, and Journal of Corporate Finance. Her research has been recognized with the 2012 Jensen Prize (2nd place) for the best corporate finance paper in the Journal of Financial Economics as well as the 2016 Emerald Citation for Excellence for high-impact research. She is one of the two Co-Editors-in-Chief at the Journal of Corporate Finance. Prior to her academic career, she held positions with Merrill Lynch's Private Equity Group and PricewaterhouseCoopers' Financial Securities Litigation practice, both in New York City.
Title of presentation: Driving a Bargain: Negotiation Skill and Price Dispersion (by Hankins K., Liu T., Sosyura D.)
Thursday 27 November 2025, 17:00 (Paris Time): Professor Laurent Fresard, Universita della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland
Laurent Fresard is Professor of Finance at Universita della Svizzera italiana (USI), Research Chair at the Swiss Finance Institute, Research Fellow at CEPR, and one of the Editors of the Review of Finance. In the past, he held faculty positions at HEC Paris and the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland. His research interests lie on the fields of Corporate finance, real effects of finance, product markets, industrial organization, international finance, mergers and acquisitions, cross-listings, innovation, text analytics. His work has been published in leading journals, like: Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Finance, Management Science.
Title of presentation: Are New Technologies Replacing the Information Produced by Financial Markets? (by Fresard L., Zanotti M.)
Thursday 26 February 2026, 17:00 (Paris Time): Professor Christa H.S. Bouwman, Texas A&M University, USA
Christa Bouwman is the Patricia & Bookman Peters Professor of Finance at Mays Business School at Texas A&M University; Fellow of the Wharton Financial Institutions Center at the University of Pennsylvania; and Research Member of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI). Her research interests are in Financial Intermediation and Corporate Finance. She is Director of the Financial Intermediation Research Society, Managing Editor of the Journal of Banking and Finance, and Associate Editor of Financial Management. She is former Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Financial Intermediation, and former Associate Editor of several Journals. Her research papers have been published in the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, MIT/Sloan Management Review, etc.
Title of presentation: TBA
Tuesday 24 March 2026, 17:00 (Paris Time): Professor Simi Kedia, Rutgers University, USA
Simi Kedia is the Albert R. Gamper Chair in Business at Rutgers Business School. She has also been a faculty at Harvard Business School. Professor Kedia’s research interests are in empirical corporate finance and span corporate governance, financial misconduct, credit ratings, proxy voting and hedge fund activism. Her research has been published in several top journals (Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Accounting Review, Management Science, Journal of Business) and it has been cited in the popular press (e.g. The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Forbes, Financial Times, etc.). Key awards include Brenan Award for the Best Paper published in Review of Finance Studies in 2009, Dean’s Meritorious Research Award 2016, 2013, 2011 at Rutgers Business School, Distinguished Referee Award 2012 from Review of Financial Studies and 2012 Glen McLaughlin Prize for Research in Accounting Ethics. She is an Editor for Journal of Corporate Finance, and she has served as an Associate Editor for Management Science, Review of Financial Studies and Financial Management.
Title of presentation: TBA
Tuesday 28 April 2026, 17:00 (Paris Time): Professor Andreas Fuster, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
Andreas Fuster is an Associate Professor of Finance at the EPFL, a Senior Chair at the Swiss Finance Institute and a Research Fellow at the CEPR. Previously, he worked at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the Swiss National Bank. Andreas's main research interests are in empirical finance, macroeconomics, and behavioral economics. His recent work has focused in particular on the effects of technological advances on household credit markets. Andreas’s research has been published in academic journals such as the Journal of Finance, the Review of Financial Studies, Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Review of Economic Studies, Review of Finance, Management Science. Andreas obtained his Ph.D. from Harvard University and also holds an M.Phil. from Oxford University and a B.A. from the University of Lausanne (Switzerland), all in economics. He is an associate editor at the Review of Financial Studies and the Journal of Financial Economics.
Title of presentation: TBA
Tuesday 04 June 2026, 17:00 (Paris Time): Professor Daniel Ferreira, London School of Economics, UK
Daniel Ferreira is a professor at the Department of Finance at the London School of Economics, a research fellow at CEPR and ECGI, and a council member of the Society for Financial Studies. He is one of the Department Editors (Finance) of Management Science , and an associate editor of The Economic Journal. He works at the intersection between corporate finance and organisational economics, from both empirical and theoretical perspectives. His current research focuses on topics such as biased promotions, decentralised governance, AI in organisations, and capital structure. He has also worked on corporate boards, firm polarisation, biases and discrimination, blockchain governance, ownership and control structures, organisational design, knowledge and hierarchies, innovation and risk-taking incentives, corporate strategy, personnel economics, group decision-making, markets with adverse selection, and bank governance, amongst others. His work has appeared in top journals such as Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial Economics, Management Science, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Accounting & Economics, Review of Finance, RAND Journal of Economics.
Title of presentation: TBA
Past MBS - Southampton - Surrey Seminars
2024-2025 Academic Year
26 September 2024, 17:00 (Paris Time): Professor Zacharias Sautner, Universität Zürich, Switzerland
Zacharias Sautner is Professor of Sustainable Finance at the Department of Finance of the University of Zurich (UZH) and a senior chair at the Swiss Finance Institute (SFI). Through his research on ESG topics such as climate change or biodiversity, he provides insights on how finance can contribute to a more sustainable future. His research has been published in leading international journals, like the Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Finance, Journal of Accounting Research, Management Science, Strategic Management Journal. He was ranked #23 globally across 12,000 business authors in a ranking based on SSRN research paper downloads (January 2023, calculated over the past 12 months). Two of his papers were ranked #3 and #4 in a Financial Times ranking of “Business School Sustainability Research: What is Read Most?” (July 2023). His research has been cited more than 7,500 times according to Google Scholar and downloaded about 100,000 times on SSRN, and his expertise is referenced in newspapers such as Wall Street Journal, New York Times, or Financial Times, and in reports by the IMF, ECB, or European Commission as well as in speeches by central bankers. Professor Sautner acts as Associate Editor at the Review of Financial Studies, Management Science, Journal of Financial & Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Banking & Finance, Financial Management, and Journal of Corporate Finance. He is also a Research Consultant (Regular Research Visitor) at the ECB and advises institutional investors on ESG issues.
Title of presentation: Corporate Climate Lobbying (by Leippold M., Sautner Z., Yu T.)
31 October 2024, 17:00 (Paris Time): Professor Bo Becker, Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden
Bo Becker the Cevian Capital Professor of Finance in the Department of Finance at the Stockholm School of Economics and Director of the Swedish House of Finance. Professor Becker's research is on corporate finance, especially corporate credit markets. Recent topics include corporate bank lending and bond issuance through the business cycle, credit ratings, covenant structures of loans and bonds, in-court and out-of-court restructuring, and the impact of Covid-19 on corporate credit markets. His research has been published in, among others, the Journal of Finance, the Review of Financial Studies, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, the Management Science, the Review of Finance, the Journal of Monetary Economics. He has been awarded several prizes and grants, including the Standard Life Prize for best paper in the ECGI Finance WP series, the Nordea Price for Best Corporate Finance Paper at the European Finance Association's annual meeting and the Lamfalussy Research Fellowship from the European Central Bank. He previously worked at the University of Illinois and at Harvard Business School. Professor Becker has served as an associate editor of the Review of Financial Studies, Management Science and Financial Management, and is currently a Department Editor for finance at Management Science. He is a Research Fellow of the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), a Research Member of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI). He previously served on the board of directors of the Swedish National Debt Office, as a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), and as an expert for public inquiries into possible Swedish membership of the EU Banking Union and on the future of payment services. He serves as a member of the Advisory Scientific Committee of the European Systemic Risk Board as well as on several non-for profit and corporate boards, including the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. He advises SEB and AP7 on sustainability issues.
Title of presentation: Non-Financial Liabilities and Effective Corporate Restructuring (by Bo Becker & Jens Josephson)
28 November 2024, 17:00 (Paris Time): Professor Renée Adams, University of Oxford, UK
Renée Adams is Professor of Finance at Said Business School at the University of Oxford. After receiving an MS in Mathematics from Stanford University and a PhD in Economics from the University of Chicago, she held positions at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the Stockholm School of Economics, the University of Queensland and the University of New South Wales and visiting positions in Germany, Italy, Japan, Norway, Sweden and the US. She is a Fellow of the European Corporate Governance Institute and a Senior Fellow of the Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research. Her work focuses on information flows on boards, bank governance, group decision-making, the governance of central banks and gender diversity on and off board. Her work has been featured in news outlets such as the Financial Times, the Economist, the Daily Telegraph, Boston Globe, Australian Associated Press, The Australian, Irish Herald, Scotland on Sunday, Board IQ, Press Trust of India, The New Zealand Herald, Berlingske Nyhedsmagasin, NK (Norway), Politiken (Denmark), DN (Norway) among others. She has published in major academic journals like: Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Finance, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Strategic Management Journal, Management Science.
Title of presentation: Directors Discussing Diversity (by Renée B. Adams, Thomas Mosk, Eleanor Murry,, Ken Okamura)
27 February 2025, 17:00 (Paris Time): Professor Anna Pavlova, London Business School, UK
Anna Pavlova is Professor of Finance at London Business School. She is also an Editor of the Review of Financial Studies and the Programme Director of the Asset Pricing Programme at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). She serves on the European Economic Association Council and the SFI Scientific Council. Formerly, she was a Director of the American Finance Association and a Director of the European Finance Association. She has published in top journals such as American Economic Review, Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, and Review of Economic Studies. Her recent research focuses on the impact of institutional investors on asset prices, ESG investing, retail trading in options, the financialisation of commodities in frictions in international financial markets. Her work has been cited in a large number of international newspapers like the Economist, FT, and Wall Street Journal. She has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant and has received a number of other prestigious awards for her research and teaching.
Title of presentation: Sparse Portfolios and Benchmarking Intensity in Fixed Income Markets (by Zheng Li, Anna Pavlova, Taisiya Sikorskaya)
27 March 2025, 17:00 (Paris Time): Professor Theresa Kuchler, New York University, USA
Theresa Kuchler is a Professor of Finance at NYU’s Stern School of Business. At NYU Stern, Professor Kuchler is the current John L. Vogelstein Fellow in Finance and the director of NYU Stern’s Glucksman Institute. She is also an Associate Editor at the Journal of Financial Economics. Prior to joining NYU, she earned a Ph.D. in Economics at Stanford University. Professor Kuchler completed her undergraduate studies with a diploma in Business Economics from the University of Mannheim and spent a year as a Fulbright visiting student in the Economics department at UC Berkeley. Professor Kuchler’s research generally leverages large micro datasets to better understand questions in the areas of household, behavioral and real estate finance. A substantial body of her work explores the role of social networks in finance and economics, how individuals form expectations and the interactions between the economy and the natural world. Her work has appeared in numerous major journals like Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Political Economy, Management Science, Review of Economic Studies.
Title of presentation: The Economics of Biodiversity Loss (by Stefano Giglio, Theresa Kuchler, Johannes Stroebel, Olivier Wang )
30 April 2025, 17:00 (Paris Time): Professor Margarita Tsoutsoura, Washington University in St. Louis, USA
Margarita Tsoutsoura is Associate Professor of Finance at Olin Business School, at the Washington University in St. Louis. She is also a Research Associate at the NBER, Research Fellow at CEPR and Research Member at ECGI. She serves as Associate Editor at the Journal of Finance, The Review of Economics and Statistics, and the Review of Finance. She was formerly tenured Associate Professor at the Johnson Graduate School of Management (Cornell University) and Associate Professor at the Booth School of Business (University of Chicago). Professor Tsoutsoura's research focuses on corporate finance with an emphasis on privately held firms, corporate governance, and labor and finance. She has published in the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, and the Quarterly Journal of Economics. Her research has been covered extensively in print and electronic media, including The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, The Economist, New York Times, Washington Post, Guardian, BusinessWeek, International Herald Tribune, and CNBC.
Title of presentation: The Political Economy of Firm Networks: CEO Ideology and Global Trade (by Elisabeth Kempf, Mancy Luo, Margarita Tsoutsoura)
29 May 2025, 17:00 (Paris Time): Professor Rajkamal Iyer, Imperial College London, UK
Rajkamal Iyer is Professor of Finance at Imperial College London (UK). Additionally, he serves or has served as a Research Fellow at CEPR, a Visiting Scholar at Bundesbank, a Co-Editor at the Journal of Corporate Finance. Previously, he held faculty positions at MIT Sloan School of Management and the University of Amsterdam. His research focuses on banking and corporate finance. He has been published in major journals like the American Economic Review, Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial Economics, Management Science, etc.
Title of presentation: Distortive Effects of Deposit Insurance: Administrative Evidence from Deposit and Loan Accounts (by Dominic Cucic, Rajkamal Iyer, Sotirios Kokas, José-Luis Peydró, Stefano Pica)
2023-2024 Academic Year
28 September 2023, 17:00 (Paris Time): Professor Evgeny Lyandres, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Evgeny Lyandres is Professor of Finance and Head of Hogeg Blockchain Research Institute at the Coller School of Management at Tel Aviv University. He also serves as a Co-Editor of the Journal of Corporate Finance and as an Associate Editor of several journals. His research focuses on the interaction between firms' financial and operating strategies, and on the effects of product market compeition on various firms' financial decisions, such as capital structure choices, M&A strategies and the going public choices. Hie is also interested in applications of real options theory to firms' financial and investment decisions. Recently his research focus shifted largely to applications of blockchain technology in finance. His papers have been published in leading journals, such as the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Management Science, Journal of Business, Review of Finance, and Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis. He has received numerous awards and prizes.
Title of presentation: Does Market Efficiency imply Capital Allocation Efficiency? The Case of Decentralized Exchanges (by Evgeny Lyandres, Alexander Zaidelson)
26 October 2023, 17:00 (Paris Time): Professor Mariassunta Giannetti, Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden
Mariassunta Giannetti is the Katarina Martinson Professor of Finance at the Stockholm School of Economics, a CEPR research fellow, and a research associate of the ECGI. She is or has been an associate editor of several journals, including the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Review of Financial Studies, the Review of Finance, the Journal of Corporate Finance, Financial Management, etc. She has been honored with numerous prestigious international awards including the Review of Finance Pagano-Zechner Prize, the NYU Stern/Imperial/Fordham Rising Start in Finance award, etc. She has broad research interests in corporate finance and financial intermediation, and she has published in leading journals like: Journal of Political Economy, American Economic Review, Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Review of Finance, Management Science.
Title of presentation: Supply Chain Shortages, Large Firms’ Market Power, and Inflation (by Francesco Franzoni, Mariassunta Giannetti, Roberto Tubaldi)
30 November 2023, 17:00 (Paris Time): Professor Raghavendra Rau, University of Cambridge, UK
Raghavendra Rau is the Sir Evelyn de Rothschild Professor of Finance at the University of Cambridge, where he is also the Founder and Academic Director of the Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF). He is a past president of the European Finance Association, a past editor of Financial Management, and former Principal at Barclays Global Investors in San Francisco. He is also an Associate Editor of many journals like the Journal of Corporate Finance and the Journal of Banking and Finance. His research interests include how investors and firms acquire and use information. His work has been published in major journals like the Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Financial & Quantitative Analysis, Review of Finance, Journal of Accounting Research, Accounting Review, Management Science, etc.
Title of presentation: Hazed and Confused: Prenatal Pollutant Exposure and CEO Risk-Taking (by Raghavendra Rau, YiLin Wu, Lok-Si leong)
29 February 2024, 17:00 (Paris Time): Professor Edith Hotchkiss, Boston College, USA
Edith Hotchkiss is Professor of Finance in the Carroll School of Management at Boston College and Co-Editor of the Journal of Banking & Finance. She has worked for New York University as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Finance and at Standard & Poor's Corporation as an Assitant Vice President. She is a member of academic advisory boar and board of directors of the Turaround Management Association. Her research focus mainly on corporate finance, more specifically, the efficiency of Chapter 11 bankruptcy procedures; restructuring mechanisms for financial distressed firms; transparency and efficiency of the corporate bond market. She has published in several major journals like: Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Finance, Journal of Corporate Finance.
Title of presentation: Can Small Businesses Survive Chapter 11? (by Benjamin Iverson, Edith Hotchkiss, Xiang Zheng)
21 March 2024, 17:00 (Paris Time): Professor Wim A Van der Stede, London School of Economics & Political Science, UK
Wim A Van der Stede is the CIMA Professor of Accounting and Financial Management at the London School of Economics & Political Science, where he also serves as Dean of LSE Extended Education. Additionally, he is the Editor-in-Chief of the of the Management Accounting Research. His research interests are in management control systems (budgeting, performance measurement and incentives systems), and corporate governance (executive compensation and internal controls). His work has appeared in several major journals, like: Accounting Review; Contemporary Accounting Research; Accounting, Organizations & Society; Management Science, etc.
Title of presentation: Employee Self-Ratings in Performance Evaluations (by Wim A. Van der Stede, Anne Wu, Steve Yuching Wu)
25 April 2024: 17:00 (Paris Time): Professor Mary Ellen Carter, Boston College, USA
Mary Ellen Carter is the Joseph L. Sweeney Chair Professor of Accounting at the Carroll School of Management at Boston College. She is also an editor at The Accounting Review and associate editor at Management Science. Before joining the faculty at Boston College, she was an Assistant Professor at the Columbia Business School (Columbia University) and at the Wharton School (University of Pennsylvania). She is a CPA, and prior to her academic career, she worked for Coopers and Lybrand in Boston as a senior audit associate. Prof. Carter studies the effects of financial reporting and regulation on incentives and executive compensation. Recent research includes gender pay gaps, labor market pressures on compensation and the influence of compensation consultants on CEO pay. She has published in several major journals, like the Journal of Accounting & Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, The Accounting Review, Review of Accounting Studies, Journal of Financial Economics, Management Science, etc.
Title of presentation: Strategic Silence: The Impact of the CEO Pay Ratio Disclosure on Conference Call Content (by Mary Ellen Carter, Lisa LaViers, Jason Sandvik, Da Xu)
PAST SEMINARS
(Organized by the Department of Finance, Accounting & Law, Montpellier BUsiness School, France)
2022-2023 Academic Year
29 September 2022, 17:00 (Paris Time): Professor Thorsten Beck, European University Institute, Italy
Thorsten Beck is Director of the Florence School of Banking and Finance and Professor of Financial Stability at the European University Institute. He is also one of the Editors of the Journal of Banking and Finance, as well as a research fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and the CESifo. He was professor of banking and finance at Bayes Business School (formerly Cass) in London between 2013 and 2021 and professor of economics from 2008 to 2014 and the founding chair of the European Banking Center from 2008 to 2013 at Tilburg University. Previously he worked in the research department of the World Bank from 1997 to 2008 and, over the past 12 years, has worked as consultant for – among others - the European Central Bank, the Bank of England, the BIS, the IMF, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the European Commission, and the German Development Corporation. He work has appeared in several major journals like the Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Finance, Journal of Monetary Economics, etc.
Title of presentation: Cooperation externalities: Supranational supervision and regulatory arbitrage (by Thorsten Beck, Consuelo Silva-Buston, Wolf Wagner)
27 October 2022, 17:00 (Paris Time): Professor Sofia Johan, Florida Atlantic University (USA) & University of Aberdeen (UK)
Sofia Johan is an Associate Professor of Finance at the College of Business, Florida Atlantic University and a Phil Smith Fellow at The Phil Smith Center for Free Enterprise at the College of Business. Also, she is a Chair in Entrepreneurial Finance at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland and an Extramural Research Fellow at Tilburg Law and Economics Center (TILEC) in the Netherlands. Additionally, she is a Co-Editor of Venture Capital: An International Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance, and an Associate Editor of the British Journal of Management. Prof. Johan has published several papers in well-known journals, such as the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of International Business Studies, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Corporate Finance, British Journal of Management, European Economic Review, Journal of Banking and Finance ,etc.
Title of presentation: Governance and Success in U.S. Securities-Based Crowdfunding (by Douglas J. Cumming, Sofia Johan, Robert S. Reardon)
01 December 2022, 16:00 (Paris Time): Professor Anna Gold, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Anna Gold is professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU), adjunct professor at NHH, and Editor at The Accounting Review. She obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Amsterdam in 2004. She worked as an assistant professor at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University for six years and has been at VU since 2011. Her research interests are in the judgment and decision-making area, primarily applied to the field of auditing. Her research has focused on the impact of regulatory changes (e.g., fraud consultation, audit firm rotation, and auditor reporting standard changes) on judgments and decisions of auditors and financial statement users. She also examines how auditors and audit firms manage errors and whether varying the error management climate affects auditors’ error reporting willingness and audit firm learning. Her recent work focuses on how auditors use specialist advice, the communication between auditors and audit committees, and auditors' use of data analytics. Her work has appeared in, among other journals, The Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research, Journal of Business Ethics, Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, etc.
Title of presentation: How do Audit Committees Support Audit Engagement Teams and Encourage Professional Skepticism? A Survey and Experimental Evidence (by Brazel J.F., Gold A., Leiby J., Schaefer T.J.)
26 January 2023, 17:00 (Paris Time): Professor Steven Ongena, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Steven Ongena is a professor of banking in the Department of Banking and Finance at the University of Zurich, a senior chair at the Swiss Finance Institute, a research professor at KU Leuven, a research professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology Business School, and a research fellow in financial economics of CEPR. He is also a research professor at the Deutsche Bundesbank and a regular research visitor at the European Central Bank. He is currently a co-editor of Economic Inquiry, the International Journal of Central Banking, the International Review of Finance, and the Journal of Financial Services Research. In 2017 he received an ERC Advanced Grant, in 2012 an NYU-Fordham - RPI Rising Star in Finance Award, and in 2009 a Wim Duisenberg Research Fellowship of the European Central Bank. His work has appeared in numerous top journals like: American Economic Review, Econometrica, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Finance, Management Science, etc.
Title of presentation: “There is No Planet B", but for Banks “There are Countries B to Z": Domestic Climate Policy and Cross-Border Lending (by Emanuela Benincasa, Gazi Kabas, Steven Ongena)
23 February 2023, 17:00 (Paris Time): Professor Marcin Kacperczyk, Imperial College London, UK
Marcin Kacperczyk is a Professor of Finance at the Imperial College London. He is also a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy and Research, Managing Editor of the Review of Finance, Associate Editor of the Journal of Financial & Quantitative Analysis, and Associate Editor of the Financial Management. In the past he served as Associate Editor of Management Science, Review of Financial Studies and Review of Finance, and he is a former Research Fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Professor Kacperczyk’s research focuses mostly on financial markets, financial intermediation, and asset management. His latest work focuses on carbon neutrality goals in portfolio management, the pricing of carbon-transition risk, carbon disclosures, carbon emissions and bank lending. His articles have appeared in Econometrica, Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Finance, Journal of Financial & Quantitative Analysis, Quarterly Journal of Economics.
Title of presentation: The CO2 Question: Technical Progress and the Climate Crisis (by Patrick Bolton, Marcin Kacperczyk, Moritz Wiedemann)
30 March 2023, 17:00 (Paris Time): Professor Omrane Guedhami, University of South Carolina (USA)
Omrane Guedhami is the C. Russell Hill professor and professor of international finance at the Darla Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina. His research interests focus on corporate governance, audit quality, tax enforcement, state capitalism and privatization, national culture, and corporate social responsibility. His publication record includes more than 85 peer-reviewed articles published in leading academic journals (e.g., 31 articles in Financial Times’ Top 50 Journals List), including the Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Management Science, Contemporary Accounting Research, Review of Finance, Journal of International Business Studies, Accounting, Organization, and Society, and Journal of Business Ethics, among others. He has received numerous research distinctions and prestigious awards. He is currently an Editor for the Journal of Business Ethics, Corporate Governance: An International Review, Journal of Applied Accounting Research, Journal of International Accounting Research, Emerging Markets Review, Asia-Pacific Journal of Financial Studies, Review of Corporate Finance, and Journal of Financial Stability, and an ad hoc Editor at Contemporary Accounting Research.
Title of presentation: Do as I Say, Not as I Do: Tax Avoidance by State-Owned Firms (by Chen R., El Ghoul S., Guedhami O., Yang Y.)
26 April 2023, 17:00 (Paris Time): Professor Aleksander A. Aleszczyk, Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University (USA)
Aleksander A. Aleszczyk is Assistant Professor at New York University Stern School of Business. His research interest lies in the intersection of accounting and finance. In particular, he focuses on debt capital markets, financial institutions, corporate bankruptcy, as well as private equity. His research investigates the pricing and the role of accounting information in primary and secondary debt markets. He has presented work at over 20 academic institutions in Europe and the USA. In 2020, Poets & Quants named him one of Top 50 Undergraduate Business Professors. Also, his case study was among the bestselling in finance, accounting and control in The Case Centre in 2018.Prior to his doctoral studies, Professor Aleszczyk gained work experience in investment banking (J.P. Morgan, Santander), central banking (National Bank of Poland) and auditing (Ernst & Young).
Title of Presentation: The Debt Market Role of Asset Valuation Uncertainty (by Aleksander A. Aleszczyk, Florin P. Vasvari, Dushyantkumar Vyas)
25 May 2023, 17:00 (Paris Time): Professor Lakshmanan Shivakumar, London Business School, UK
Lakshmanan Shivakumar is the Lord David Sainsbury of Turville Professor, Professor of Accounting at London Business School. He was formerly the subject area Chair for the Accounting group at LBS and has been a member of the School's Executive Committee. He has held visiting positions in various universities and is (or has been) a co-editor of the Review of Accounting Studies and The Accounting Review. His main research interests are in the areas of financial reporting quality, stock-return predictability, and macro-accounting. His work has appeared in several top-journals like Journal of Accounting and Economics, The Accounting Review, Review of Accounting Studies, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Financial & Quantitative Analysis.
Title of presentation: Shareholder voting: A complementary mechanism to mandatory disclosure regulation (by Aleksander A. Aleszczyk, Tathagat Mukhopadhyay, Lakshmanan (Shiva) Shivakumar)
2021-2022 Academic Year
09 December 2021, 17:00 (Paris Time): Professor Beatriz Garcia Osma , Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Spain).
Professor Garcia Osma is the Managing Editor of the European Accounting Review. Her research focuses on the links between financial reporting, corporate governance and capital markets. Her work has been published in top accounting journals like Accounting Review; Journal of Accounting & Economics; Review of Accounting Studies.
Title of presentation: The Confirmatory Role of Conditional Conservatism over Voluntary Disclosure (co-authored by Garcia Osma B., Guillamon Saorin E., Mercado F.)
27 January 2022, 17:00 (Paris Time): Professor Ruediger Fahlenbrach, Swiss Finance Institute Professor, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland).
Professor Fahlenbrach is Associate Editor of the Review of Finance, and former Associate Editor of the Review of Financial Studies (2013-2016) and Financial Management (2012-2016). He has research interests in empirical corporate finance, in particular corporate governance and entrepreneurship. He has published in all the top finance journals (i.e. Journal of Finance; the Journal of Financial Economics; the Review of Financial Studies; the Review of Finance; the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis).
Title of presentation: Direct Democracy, Corporate Political Strategy, and Firm Value (authors: Rudiger Fahlenbrach, Alexei Ovtchinnikov, Philip Valt)
24 February 2022, 17:00 (Paris Time): Professor Morten Bennedsen, University of Copenhagen (Denmark) and INSEAD (France and Singapore)
Morten Bennedsen is the Niels Bohr is Professor at the University of Copenhagen (Denmark) and the André and Rosalie Hoffmann Chaired Professor of Family Enterprise at INSEAD (France and Singapore). He is one of the Editors of the Journal of Corporate Finance, and academic director of the Wendel International Center for Family Enterprise at INSEAD and the FAMBUSS group at the University of Copenhagen. Furthermore, he was the founding director of the Center for Owner-managed Firms at Copenhagen Business School, and he has served as an advisor to the Danish and UK Governmenst, the EU, private equity funds and the World Bank. He has written 3 book manuscripts, published 30+ articles (mostly) in top economics and finance journals (e.g. Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of Economics ), 30+ business cases, 30+articles in Danish and Swedish economic journals and policy reports
Title of presentation: Title Neighborhood Firms (by Mario Amore, Morten Bennedsen, Birthe Larsen)
31 March 2022, 17:30 (Paris Time): Professor Iftekhar Hasan, Fordham University, USA
Iftekhar Hasan holds the title of university professor at Fordham University, where he also serves as the E. Gerald Corrigan Chair in Finance at the Gabelli School of Business, co-director of the Center for Research in Contemporary Finance, and director of the Ph.D. program. He is the managing editor of the Journal of Financial Stability. He further serves as a scientific advisor at the Bank of Finland; as a fractional faculty member at the University of Sydney; as a research fellow at the Financial Institution Center at the Wharton School as well as at the IWH Institute in Halle, Germany. Professor Hasan's research interests are in the areas of financial institutions, corporate finance, capital markets, and emerging economies. He has more than 280 peer-reviewed articles in distinguished academic outlets in finance, economics, international business, management, accounting, operation research, and information systems, including JFE, JFQA, JB, JME, RF, JFI, JMCB, JCF, FM, JBF, JIMF, SMJ, JIBS, HRM, JoM, BJM, JBE, RP, JAR, CAR, RAST, JAPP, JAAF, ABR, MSc, EJOR, and JMIS.
Title of presentation: The Great Equalizer? Banking Competition and Mortality Inequality (by Iftekhar Hasan, Thomas Krause, Stefano Manfredonia, Felix Noth)
28 April 2022, 17:00 (Paris Time): Professor Gaizka Ormazabal University of Navarra, Spain.
Gaizka Ormazabal holds the Grupo Santander Chair of Financial Institutions and Corporate Governance and serves as academic director at the IESE Center for Corporate Governance at IESE Business School (University of Navarra).
He is one of the Editors of the Review of Accounting Studies, a Research Affiliate in the Financial Economics program of the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and research member in the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI). His research focuses on executive compensation and corporate governance. His work examines the choice and valuation implications of corporate governance mechanisms. His current research projects analyze recent trends in managerial compensation, corporate governance intermediaries, financial regulation, bank accounting, and the role of corporate governance in sustainable development. He has published in leading academic journals including Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Law and Economics, The Accounting Review, Journal of Finance, and Journal of Accounting Research.
Title of presentation: Executive Compensation Tied to ESG Performance: International Evidence (by Shira Cohen, Igor Kadach, Gaizka Ormazabal, Stefan Reichelstein)
02 June 2022, 17:00 (Paris Time): Professor Kose John, New York University, USA
Kose John holds the Charles William Gerstenberg Professorship in Banking and Finance at the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University. His research interests are in the fields of Fintech, Banking, Corporate Finance, Economics of Information, Capital Market Theory. He has published more than 100 papers, many of them appearing in top journals like: Journal of Finance; Review of Financial Studies; Journal of Financial Economics; Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis; Management Science, Strategic Management Journal; Journal of Business.
Title of presentation: Institutions and Innovation (by Amar Gande, Kose John, Vinay B. Nair, Lemma Senbet)