1st PhD and Young Accounting Scholars Conference 2021
Friday 8th October 2021
We are proud to host the 1st PhD and Young Accounting Scholars conference at Bayes Business School (formerly Cass Business School), which is organised jointly with the School of Accounting and Finance, University of Bristol.
The conference aims to give final-year PhDs an opportunity to hone their presentation skills and receive feedback before the job market. Young Accounting Scholars are recent PhD graduates who have the opportunity to present their papers and receive feedback from discussants and the audience before journal submission.
The conference builds on the Young Accounting Scholars Network of top UK and European business schools.
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Programme
08:30 - 08:55
Registration and light breakfast
08:55 - 09:00
Welcome
PhD session 1 (Zoom), Chair: Zilu Shan, University of Bristol
09:00 - 09:30
Siqi Liu, Alliance Manchester Business School
09:30 - 10:00
Xiao Chen, University of Exeter
Does the market react to the textual properties of M&A press releases (PRs)?
10:00 - 10:30
Omar de Inés, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Audit materiality and cost of debt
10:30 - 11:00
Duy Tan Do, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Shareholder voting and disclosure in M&As
11:00 - 11:15
Coffee break
PhD session 2 (F2F), Chair: Ivana Raonic, Bayes Business School
11:15 - 11:45
Ronald Lui, University of Bristol
Fair Value Accounting and Debt Contracting: Further Evidence
11:45 - 12:15
Dhanya Krishna Kumar, Warwick Business School
The Influence of an Audit Partner’s First-Born Daughter on Audit Quality
12:15 - 12:45
Junzi Zhang, Bayes Business School
Regulatory Comment Letters in Mergers and Acquisitions: Evidence from China
12:45 - 13:15
Seamus Dufurrena, ESSEC
13:15 - 14:00
Lunch
14:00 - 14:20
Job market panel: Joe Choe, Xiaochi Ge and Mark Clatworthy
YAS session 1 (F2F), Chair: Art Kraft, Bayes Business School
14:20-15:00
Cristina Grande-Herrera, Bayes Business School
Discussant: Zhifang Zhang, Warwick Business School
Race to board independence: Evidence on strategic compliance with corporate governance regulation
15:00 - 16:40
Sarah Kroechert, Lancaster University
Do Financial Investment Decisions Affect Individuals' Non-Financial Decisions?
Discussant: Saipriya Kamath, London School of Economics and Political Science
15:40 - 16:20
Gerald Ward, Lancaster University
Who is Talking about Whom? Determinants and Consequences
Discussant: Dan Zhou, University of Reading
16:20 - 16:30
Coffee break
YAS session 2 (F2F), Chair: Xi Chen , University of Bristol
16:30 - 17:10
Facundo Mercado, Warwick Business School
Conditional Conservatism and Management Earnings Forecasts
Discussant: Gilad Livne, University of Bristol
17:10 - 17:50
Xucheng Shi, ESSEC
Do Parent Firms Influence Proxy Advisors' Recommendations? Evidence from Shareholder Proposals
Discussant: Xi Chen, University of Bristol
17:50 - 17:55
Thanks and depart
Organisers


- Dr Pawel Bilinski, Bayes Business School, pawel.bilinski.1@city.ac.uk
- Prof Mark Clatworthy, University of Bristol, mark.clatworthy@bristol.ac.uk