Accounting Workshop Spring 2018

Date	Speaker	Paper
April 13 3:30 - 5:00pm	Pepa Kraft HEC Paris	Do Rating Agencies Apply Standards Consistently ? Coarseness in Ratings around the Dodd-Frank Act
April 20 3:30 - 5:00pm	Gaizka Ormazabal IESE, U of Navarra	Disclosure Regulation and Corporate Acquisitions
May 4 3:30 - 5:00pm	An-Ping LIN SMU	Star Analyst Voting and Stock Recommendation Bias
May 8 3:30 - 5:00pm	Jennifer Blouin U of Pennsylvania	Corporate Tax Cuts, Merger Activity, and Shareholder Wealth
May 18 3:30 - 5:00pm	Frank Weikai Li SMU	Information Acquisition and Expected Returns; Evidence from EDGAR Search Traffic
June 1 3:30 - 5:00pm	Szu-fan Chen HKUST	Unlucky Firms and Unforgiving Banks and Auditors: the Cost of Nuisance Securities Litigation
8 June 3:30 - 5:00pm	Thomas Bourveau HKUST	Rent-Extraction in Audit: Evidence from Hurricanes
June 15 3:30 - 5:00pm	Jochen Pierk Erasmus U	Multinational Tax Avoidance: Is It All About Profit Shifting?
june 22 3:30 - 5:00pm	Kevin Chen HKUST	Disclosure of Internal Control Weaknesses and Auditors' Litigation Risk
5 Jul 3:30 - 5:00pm	Mingyi Hung HKUST	The Effect of Bank Health on Borrowers' Voluntary Capital Expenditure Forcasts: Evidence from the ECB's Liquidity Injection

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