Ulrich Schäfer - Presentations

Workshop presentations

On the Costs and Benefits of More Transparency about Equity-based Incentives, AES Weekly Webinar, 2025
Reliability-Relevance Trade Offs with an Attention-Constrained Manager, Duke University, Durham, 2024
Reliability-Relevance Trade Offs with an Attention-Constrained Manager, Dartmouth College, Hanover, 2024
Information Leaks and Voluntary Disclosure, Charles University, Prague, 2024
Information Leaks and Voluntary Disclosure, University of Passau, Passau, 2023
Information Leaks and Voluntary Disclosure, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 2022
The Effect of Financial Incentives and Career Concerns on Reporting Bias, Penn State University, State College, 2018
The Effect of Financial Incentives and Career Concerns on Reporting Bias, Columbia University, New York, 2017
The Effect of Financial Incentives and Career Concerns on Reporting Bias, DART Lunch Workshop, Graz, 2017
Mandatory Deferred Compensation and the Stewardship Perspective of Financial Accounting, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, 2015
Mandatory Deferred Compensation and the Stewardship Perspective of Financial Accounting, Research Seminar Accounting & Taxation, Hannover, 2014

Invited discussions

Chaigneau, P. and N. Sahuguet: Motivational and Informational Financial Ratings, Accounting Research Workshop, Zurich, 2025
Bertomeu, J. and E. Cheynel: Truth and Deception, Accounting and Economics Society Annual Conference, New York, 2024
Fleer, S.: Disclosing Quantitative Information to a Rationally Inattentive Trader, 22nd Conference of the German Economic Association of Business Administration, Paderborn, 2023
Arya, A. and R.N.V. Ramanan: Long-term Firm Gains from Short-term Managerial Focus, Accounting Research Workshop, Zurich, 2023
Smith, K.: How Useful Is the Information in Earnings? Evidence from a Structural Model, Haskayne and Fox Accounting Conference, Lake Louise, 2023
Knacker, L. and A. Rohlfing-Bastian: Strategic Use of Tone in Disclosures, 21st Conference of the German Economic Association of Business Administration, Konstanz, 2022
Flassak, K. and C. Hofmann: The Effect of Career Concerns on Team Assignment, Management Accounting Section Midyear Meeting, Portland, 2022
Bertomeu, J.: Disclosure Paternalism, Hawai’i Accounting Research Conference, Honolulu, 2022
König, P.J., C. Laux and D. Pothier: The Adverse Effect of Market Discipline on Bank Leverage and Risk, Annual Congress of the European Accounting Association, 2021
Löffler, C.: Information Sharing in Procurement Contracting with Multiple Suppliers, European Accounting Review Conference, Berlin, 2020
Gayle, G.-L., C. Li and R.A. Miller: Was Sarbanes-Oxley Costly? Evidence from Optimal Contracting on CEO Compensation, Management Accounting Section Midyear Meeting, Houston, 2020
Fan, Q.: Stock Price Based Compensation and Managerial Myopia in a Dynamic Agency Setting, Hawai'i Accounting Research Conference, Hilo, 2020
Verrecchia, R.E.: Disclosure Redux, Accounting Research Workshop, Zurich, 2019
Ebert, M. and G. Schneider: Is There More Voluntary Disclosure if Investors Are Better Informed? 79. Wissenschaftliche Jahrestagung des Verbandes der Hochschullehrer für Betriebswirtschaft e. V., St. Gallen, 2017
Rohlfing-Bastian, A. and A. Schöttner: Incentives and the Delegation of Task Assignment, Accounting Research Workshop, Basel, 2017
Hoffmann, S. and S.P. Walker: When Accounting Breaks Down, 4th Workshop on the Politics of Accounting, Paris, 2017
Berger, K.: Identity, Cost of Benchmark and Incentives, 12th Workshop on Accounting and Economics, Tilburg, 2016
Löffler, A. and L. Kruschwitz: Marginal Tax Rates under Asymmetric Taxation, 17th Conference of the German Economic Association of Business Administration, 2016
Hakenes, H. and S. Katolnik: On the Incentive Effect of Job Rotation, 11th Workshop on Accounting and Economics, Odense, 2014
Mauch, C.: Feedback in a Multi-Task Dynamic Tournament, 14th Conference of the German Economic Association of Business Administration, Magdeburg, 2013
Brockmann, C.: The Ratchet Effect in a Two Lag Setting and the Mitigating Influence of Yardstick Competition, 8th Conference of the German Economic Association of Business Administration, Tübingen, 2007

Conference presentations

Reliability-Relevance Trade Offs with an Attention-Constrained Manager, 48th Annual Congress of the European Accounting Association, Rome, 2025
On the costs and benefits of more transparency about equity-based incentives, Analytical Research in Financial Accounting Workshop, Graz, 2025
Real Effects of Measuring and Reporting Unrealized Fair Value Gains, Haskayne and Fox Accounting Conference, Lake Louise, 2023
Reliability-Relevance Trade Offs with an Attention-Constrained Manager, Financial Accounting and Reporting Section Midyear Meeting, Denver, 2022
Reliability-Relevance Trade Offs with an Attention-Constrained Manager, Management Accounting Section Midyear Meeting, Portland, 2022
Reliability-Relevance Trade Offs with an Attention-Constrained Manager, Hawai’i Accounting Research Conference, Honolulu, 2022
Information Leaks and Voluntary Disclosure, 12th Accounting Research Workshop, 2021
Investor Sophistication, Earnings Management, and Price Efficiency, 44th Annual Congress of the European Accounting Association, 2021
Deceiving Two Masters: The Effects of Financial Incentives and Reputational Concerns on Reporting Bias, 83. Wissenschaftliche Jahrestagung des Verbandes der Hochschullehrer für Betriebswirtschaft e. V., Frankfurt, 2020
The Allocation of Responsibility between CEO and CFO for Financial Misreporting: Implications for Earnings Quality, Management Accounting Section Midyear Meeting, Houston, 2020
Deceiving Two Masters: The Effects of Financial Incentives and Reputational Concerns on Reporting Bias, Hawai’i Accounting Research Conference, Hilo, 2020
Information Leaks and Voluntary Disclosure, Magdeburg Accounting Workshop, Magdeburg, 2019
The Allocation of Responsibility between CEO and CFO for Financial Misreporting: Implications for Earnings Quality, OR 2019, Dresden, 2019
The Allocation of Responsibility between CEO and CFO for Financial Misreporting: Implications for Earnings Quality, 2019 Annual Meeting of the American Accounting Association, San Francisco, 2019
Information Leaks and Voluntary Disclosure, 42th Annual Congress of the European Accounting Association, Paphos, 2019
The Effect of Financial Incentives and Career Concerns on Reporting Bias, 2018 Annual Meeting of the American Accounting Association, Washington, D.C., 2018
The Allocation of Responsibility between CEO and CFO for Financial Misreporting: Implications for Earnings Quality, 13th Workshop on Accounting and Economics, Paris, 2018
The Effect of Financial Incentives and Career Concerns on Reporting Bias, 41th Annual Congress of the European Accounting Association, Milan, 2018
The Effect of Financial Incentives and Career Concerns on Reporting Bias, Annual Accounting Conference, Berlin, 2018
The Effect of Financial Incentives and Career Concerns on Reporting Bias, Erasmus Accounting and Economics Workshop, Rotterdam, 2017
The Allocation of Responsibility between CEO and CFO for Financial Misreporting: Implications for Earnings Quality, XVIII. Symposium zur Ökonomischen Analyse der Unternehmung, Hohenheim, 2017
The Effect of Financial Incentives and Career Concerns on Reporting Bias, XVIII. Symposium zur Ökonomischen Analyse der Unternehmung, Hohenheim, 2017
Mandatory Deferred Compensation and the Stewardship Perspective of Financial Accounting, 4th Workshop on the Politics of Accounting, Paris, 2017
The Effect of Financial Incentives and Career Concerns on Reporting Bias, Jr. Accounting Theory Conference, San Diego, 2017
The Effect of Financial Incentives and Career Concerns on Reporting Bias, 10th Accounting Research Workshop, Basel, 2017
Terminal Value for Firms with Multiple Business Units and Heterogenous Return on Investment, 79. Wissenschaftliche Jahrestagung des Verbandes der Hochschullehrer für Betriebswirtschaft e. V., Munich, 2016
Terminal Value for Firms with Multiple Business Units and Heterogenous Return on Investment, 39th Annual Congress of the European Accounting Association, Maastricht, 2016
Mandatory Deferred Compensation and the Stewardship Perspective of Financial Accounting, 78. Wissenschaftliche Jahrestagung des Verbandes der Hochschullehrer für Betriebswirtschaft e. V., Vienna, 2015
Mandatory Deferred Compensation and the Stewardship Perspective of Financial Accounting, Management Accounting Section Midyear Meeting, Newport Beach, 2015
Mandatory Deferred Compensation and the Stewardship Perspective of Financial Accounting, XV. Symposium zur Ökonomischen Analyse der Unternehmung, Regensburg, 2014
Mandatory Deferred Compensation and the Stewardship Perspective of Financial Accounting, 11th Workshop on Accounting and Economics, Odense, 2014
Terminal Value for Firms with Heterogeneous Business Units, 37th Annual Congress of the European Accounting Association, Tallinn, 2014
Mandatory Deferred Compensation and the Stewardship Perspective of Financial Accounting, 37th Annual Congress of the European Accounting Association, Tallinn, 2014
Mandatory Deferred Compensation and the Stewardship Perspective of Financial Accounting, AAA Mid-Atlantic Region Meeting, King of Prussia, 2014
Mandatory Deferred Compensation and the Stewardship Perspective of Financial Accounting, 50th BAFA Annual Conference, London, 2014
Social Comparison in Principal-Agent Models: The Role of Perception, 26th European Conference on Operational Research, Rome, 2013
Corporate Taxes, Capital Structure, and Valuation: Combining Modigliani/Miller and Miles/Ezzell, 36th Annual Congress of the European Accounting Association, Paris, 2013
Corporate Taxes, Capital Structure, and Valuation: Combining Modigliani/Miller and Miles/Ezzell, IAAER Conference, Frankfurt, 2013
Corporate Taxes, Capital Structure, and Valuation: Combining Modigliani/Miller and Miles/Ezzell, 25th European Conference on Operational Research, Vilnius, 2012
The Impact of Different Dimensions of Social Comparison in Principal Agent Relationships, Summer School on Accounting 2008, Vienna, 2008
The Impact of Different Dimensions of Social Comparison in Principal Agent Relationships, Operations Research 2008, Augsburg, 2008
The Impact of Different Dimensions of Social Comparison in Principal Agent Relationships, 9th Conference of the German Economic Association of Business Administration, Augsburg, 2008