Programme

• Time
• Title

• Thursday, April 26: Doctoral Consortium

• Registration & Coffee/Tea

• Doctoral Consortium

  - Opening remarks
  - Linda Myers
  - Q&A session with Linda Myers, John Christian Langli, and Ole-Kristian Hope

  10 minutes’ break approx. 10.30. Coffee/tea 

• Lunch buffet

• Doctoral Consortium (continued)

  Breakout sessions with proposal presentations:
  Audit (faculty: Linda Myers, John Christian Langli, and Marleen Willekens)
  Other Accounting Topics (faculty: Bjørn Jørgensen and Ole-Kristian Hope)

• Break and meeting with conference attendees

• Thursday, April 26: Conference

• Registration & Coffee/Tea

• Welcome and presentation of papers

  Ole-Kristian Hope (Rotman School of Management; BI): “Economic Consequences of Hiring Wall Street Analysts as Investor Relations Officers” Discussant: Tobias Svanström (BI; Umeå University) Link to paper
  
  Link to discussion
  
  10 minutes’ break 16.20 – 16.30
  
  Lasse Niemi (Aalto University): “What Drives Differences in Audit Pricing Across the Globe?” Discussant: Christopher Bleibtrue (BI; University of Konstanz) Link to paper

  Link to discussion

• Guided tour of the BI building

• Dinner in Fine Dining

• Friday, April 27 Conference

• Paper presentations

  Han Wu (HEC Paris): The (In)Visibility of Political Connections” Discussant: Tzu-Ting Chiu  (NHH Norwegian School of Economics) Link to paper
  
  Link to discussion
  
  10 minutes’ break 9.50 – 10.00 Coffee/tea/biscuits/cookie
  
  Bjørn Jørgensen (London School of Economics: “What a difference a day makes in executive compensation” Discussant: Dan Zhang (BI) Link to paper

  Link to discussion
  
  10 minutes’ break 10.50 – 11.00
  
  David Veenman (University of Amsterdam): “Does CEO Inside Debt Ownership Affect Financial Reporting Quality?” Discussant: Per Olsson(ESMT Berlin) Link to paper
  
  Link to discussion

• Lunch

• One paper, keynote address and closing remarks

  J-P Kallunki (Oulo Business School): “CEO Personal and Corporate Tax Avoidance Consistency” Discussant: Kizkitza Biguri (BI) Link to paper

  Link to discussion
  
  10 minutes’ break 14.20 – 14.30. Fruit
  
  Linda Myers (The University of Tennessee): Keynote address
  
  Closing remarks: Ole-Kristian Hope