2016 Meeting

The sec­ond EASYS meet­ing will take place on May 9–10, 2016 in Maas­tricht. 
This event is pri­mar­i­ly by invi­ta­tion but inter­est­ed schol­ars can con­tact the orga­niz­ers. Space per­mit­ting, addi­tion­al par­tic­i­pants may reg­is­ter. 
The venue is the Gulden Tulip Apple Park Maas­tricht Hotel.

You can see the pro­gram below. 

Euro­pean Account­ing Sym­po­sium for Young Schol­ars (EASYS)
Day 1, May 9
13:00 — 13:30 Wel­come address / Cof­fee (JP)
13:30 — 14:15 Mar­i­ano Scapin (Uni­ver­si­ty of Bris­tol)
Account­ing con­ser­vatism and tour­na­ment incen­tives
14:15 — 15:00 Jan Riepe (Uni­ver­si­ty of Tübin­gen)
Pub­lic dis­clo­sure, depos­i­tors, and mar­ket dis­ci­pline: Evi­dence from Ger­many
15:00 — 15:30 Cof­fee
15:30 — 16:15 Sara Bor­mann (Wash­ing­ton Uni­ver­si­ty in St. Louis)
Under­stand­ing the cost struc­ture of a firm: Bal­anc­ing activ­i­ties and achiev­ing economies of scope
16:15 — 17:00 Christoph Sex­troh (Tilburg Uni­ver­si­ty)
Why did politi­cians blame fair val­ue account­ing dur­ing the finan­cial cri­sis? The role of con­ser­v­a­tive ide­ol­o­gy and spe­cial inter­ests
18:30 Din­ner, Restau­rant La Bodega 

Day 2, May 10
09:00 — 09:30 Cof­fee
09:30 — 10:15 Anna Alexan­der (WHU)
Cor­po­rate tax reforms and tax-moti­vat­ed prof­it shift­ing: Evi­dence from the EU
10:15 — 11:00 Jochen Pierk (Vien­na Uni­ver­si­ty of Eco­nom­ics and Busi­ness)
Do for­eign tax author­i­ties ben­e­fit from the U.S. world­wide tax sys­tem?
11:00 — 11:30 Cof­fee break
11:30 — 12:15 Thomas Bourveau (HKUST Hong Kong)
Pro­pri­etary costs and vol­un­tary dis­clo­sure: Evi­dence from tax induced changes in R&D incen­tives
12:15 — 13:00 Chung-Yu Hung (Uni­ver­si­ty of Mel­bourne)
The infor­ma­tion role of prox­im­i­ty for cor­po­rate investment 

Here you can find the list of participants .