Programme

• Time
• Title

• Thursday, April 25, 2019: Doctoral Consortium

• Registrations and coffee/tea. Outside room A2-095

• Doctoral Consortium Room A2-095

  10 minutes’ break with coffee/tea at 10:10

• Breakout sessions with proposal sessions

  - Room A5-110
  - Room A5-103
  - Room A5-158

• Lunch buffet, social zone between A5 indre and A5 ytre.

• Doctoral Consortium (continued)

• Break and meeting with conference attendees. Outside room A2-095

• Thursday, April 25: Conference

• Registration and coffee/tea. Outside room A2-095

• Welcome by Prof. Ingunn Myrtveit, Head of Department of Accounting, Auditing and Business Analytics, and Ole-Kristian Hope (Rotman/BI). Presentation of papers. Room A2-095

  David Oesch (Zurich): "The Effect of International Subsidiaries on Voluntary Disclosure - Evidence from Natural Disasters"
  Discussant: Marleen Willekens (KU Leuven/BI)

  10 minutes’ break 4:20 – 4:30

  Ole-Kristian Hope (Rotman/BI): “Information Sharing between Mutual Funds and Auditors”
  Discussant: Tzu-Ting Chiu (NHH)

• Dinner in Fine Dining, BI, A7. Please show up at main desk at 06:30

• Friday, April 26 Conference

• Paper presentations. Room A2-075

  Christian Hoffman (LMU): “Transparency and Decentralization in Hierarchies”
  Discussant: Hans Frimor (Odense)

  10 minutes’ break 9:50 – 10:00

  Alastair Lawrence (LBS): “Pulling Back the Curtain on the Drivers of Signed Earnings Announcement Returns”
  Discussant: Morten Jensen (CBS)

  10 minutes’ break 10:50 – 11:00

  Kim Ittonen (Hanken): “Price Competition Among Big 4 Audit Firms: Evidence from the Nordic Countries”
  Discussant: Henry Jarva (Aalto)

• Lunch, A7

• One paper, keynote address and closing remarks. Room A2-075

  Henrik Nilsson (SSE): “Is Leadership Ability Rewarded by the Auditing Profession?”
  Discussant: Aasmund Eilifsen (NHH)

  10 minutes’ break 2:20 – 2:30.

  Bjørn Jørgensen (LSE): “Research Inspiration, Innovation, and Implementation”

  Closing remarks: Ole-Kristian Hope and John Christian Langli

   

  
  For questions, please contact Ole-Kristian Hope (academic; okhope@rotman.utoronto.ca) or Mariell Elisabeth Berg (administrative; mariell.e.berg@bi.no)