TRR 266/TAFResearch Seminar
On November 18, 2025 Prof. Dr. Tobias Berg(Goethe University Frankfurt) has present a paper at the TRR 266/TAF Research Seminar.
Tobias Berg is Professor of Banking at the House of Finance, Goethe-University Frankfurt. His primary research interests include financial intermediation, corporate finance, FinTech, and climate finance. His research has been published in leading journals such as the Journal of Finance, …
As part of the TAF Brown Bag Seminars Josephine Hartmann-Meise held a presentation on December 2, 2025. The title of the presentation is “One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: Understanding Policy Change in Sustainability Reporting through Network Dynamics”.
As part of the TRR Brown Bag at the Humboldt-University of Berlin Mahdi Rahali gave a presentation on June 19, 2025. The presentation was titled by "COVID-19 related insolvency suspension and German firms".
The research, co-authored by Prof. Dr. Urska Kosi, examines the number of insolvency filings over time, shedding light on the impact of Germany’s suspension of the insolvency filing obligation during the Covid crisis.
On June 6, the UGO prizes for outstanding Bachelor's and Master's theses from the Faculty of Business Administration and Economics were awarded at Gräflicher Park Bad Driburg.
We are very proud that Aliana Görtz was honored for her Master's thesis on “The effects of firm transparency on the insolvency process: Evidence from Germany”. The thesis was supervised by Prof. Dr. Urska Kosi, Chair of Financial Accounting and Auditing at the Department…
In module "Mergers, Acquisitions and Divestures" (TAF Master program), we hosted Armin Budde (former managing director of Budde GmbH & Co. KG), Sven Nuener (chief strategy officer PreZero Stiftung GmbH & Co. KG), Martin Westhoff (tax consultant and partner at Horstbrink & Partner) and Dr. Andreas Börger (lawyer, tax consultant and partner at HLB Stückmann). They prepared a very interesting guest lecture and explained how PreZero acquired Budde…
In our module "Fundamentals of Auditing" the students learn how to audit financial statements from two very experienced practitioners. The lecturers are Hendrik Koch and Stefan Kiertscher from KPMG Bielefeld.
This winter semester our students also got an exclusive opportunity to work on a case study about the accounting scandal of FlowTex Technologie GmbH & Co. KG. They applied their knowledge to the practical business case and presented their…
The paper, titled Does private peers' disclosure affect public firms' information environment?, is co-authored by Bianca Beyer (Aalto University) and Vanessa Flagmeier (University of Passau). It examines how private peers' disclosure creates externalities for the public firms' information environment. It finds that the negative externalities occur primarily when private peers are opaque. Prof. Dr. Kosi was honoured to present the paper at the UQ…
On June 6, the UGO prizes for outstanding Bachelor's and Master's theses from the Faculty of Business Administration and Economics were awarded at Gräflicher Park Bad Driburg.
We are very proud that Aliana Görtz was honored for her Master's thesis on “The effects of firm transparency on the insolvency process: Evidence from Germany”. The thesis was supervised by Prof. Dr. Urska Kosi, Chair of Financial Accounting and Auditing at the Department…
In module "Mergers, Acquisitions and Divestures" (TAF Master program), we hosted Armin Budde (former managing director of Budde GmbH & Co. KG), Sven Nuener (chief strategy officer PreZero Stiftung GmbH & Co. KG), Martin Westhoff (tax consultant and partner at Horstbrink & Partner) and Dr. Andreas Börger (lawyer, tax consultant and partner at HLB Stückmann). They prepared a very interesting guest lecture and explained how PreZero acquired Budde…
In our module "Fundamentals of Auditing" the students learn how to audit financial statements from two very experienced practitioners. The lecturers are Hendrik Koch and Stefan Kiertscher from KPMG Bielefeld.
This winter semester our students also got an exclusive opportunity to work on a case study about the accounting scandal of FlowTex Technologie GmbH & Co. KG. They applied their knowledge to the practical business case and presented their…
The paper, titled Does private peers' disclosure affect public firms' information environment?, is co-authored by Bianca Beyer (Aalto University) and Vanessa Flagmeier (University of Passau). It examines how private peers' disclosure creates externalities for the public firms' information environment. It finds that the negative externalities occur primarily when private peers are opaque. Prof. Dr. Kosi was honoured to present the paper at the UQ…
