Schedule
The first SAFE Exploratory Workshop on Transparency:
Information generation, disclosure, and their effects on the economcy
Organized by Guido Friebel, Andrej Gill, Christian Leuz
Goethe University Frankfurt
By invitation only.
| 4th October | |
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| 9.30 am | Welcome coffee and registration |
| 10.00 am | Ruben Enikolopov (Pompeu Fabra, New Economic School Moscow), Maria Petrova, and Konstantin Sonin "Do political blogs matter? Corruption in state-controlled companies, blog postings, and DDOS attacks" Discussant: Devesh Rustagi (Goethe University) |
| 11.00 am | Break |
| 11.15 am | Abbie Smith (University of Chicago Booth School of Business), Robert Davidson and Aiyesha Dey "Executives' Legal Records, Lavish Lifestyles and Insider Trading Activities" Discussant: Christine Zulehner (University Vienna and Goethe University) |
| 12.15 pm | Lunch |
| 1.45 pm | Franck Portier (Toulouse School of Economics), Paul Beaudry "News Driven Business Cycles: Insights and Challenges" Discussant: Laura Moretti (Goethe University) |
| 2.45 pm | Break |
| 3.00 pm | Brainstorming session animated by Christian Leuz (University of Chicago Booth School of Business) "Economic consequences and real-effects of transparency regulation" |
| 4.30 pm | Richard Holden (University of New South Wales) and Roland Fryer "Multitasking, Learning, and Incentives: A Cautionary Tale" Discussant: Alex White (Tsinghua University) |
| 7.00 pm | Conference Dinner at Allgaiers, Frankfurt |
| 5th October | |
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| 8.45 am | Coffee |
| 9.00 am | Fanny Camara (Toulouse School of Ecnomics) "Competition, Information Acquisition and Disclosure: Evidence from Pharmaceutical Industry" Discussant: Sascha Baghestanian (Goethe University) |
| 10.00 am | Break |
| 10.15 am | Christian Laux (WU Wien), Gyöngyi Loranth and Alan Morrison "Internal Auditing and Capital Structure" Discussant: Guido Friebel (Goethe University) |
| 11.15 am | Break |
| 11.30 am | Thomas Mosk (Goethe University Frankfurt) "Delegation of Authority and Information Manipulation: Evidence from Bank Lending Decisions" Discussant: Nick Zubanov (Goethe University) |
| 12.30 pm | Lunch |
| 1.30 pm | Florian Ederer (Yale School of Management), Richard Holden and Margaret Meyer "Gaming and Strategic Ambiguity in Incentive Provision" Discussant: Ferdinand von Siemens (Goethe University) |
| 2.30 pm | Break |
| 2.45 pm | Eugene Soltes (Harvard Business School), (Coauthor TBA) "Who Consumes Public Disclosure? Evidence from Conference Call Engagement" Discussant: Martin Götz (Goethe University) |
| 3.45 pm | Concluding remarks |
| 4.00 pm | Adjourn, possibility for transfer and city/campus tour |
Contact and Venue:
Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften
Am Wingertsberg
461348 Bad Homburg vor der Höhe
Contact details of organizers:
Guido Friebel: gfriebel[at]wiwi.uni-frankfurt[dot]de
Andrej Gill: gill[at]econ.uni-frankfurt[dot]de