TRR 266/TAF Research Seminar On October 24, 2023, Derrald Stice (HKU Business School) presented the paper "Regulatory Exposure, Debt Contract Terms, and Bank Specialization" at the TRR 266/TAF Research Seminar.

TRR 266/TAF Research Seminar On October 17, 2023, Rebecca Lester (Stanford Graduate School of Business) presented the paper "The Spiderweb of Partnership Tax Structures" at the TRR 266/TAF Research Seminar.

As part of the Brown Bag Seminars, Alexander Liß gave a presentation on October 10, 2023, on the topic "IP Disclosure under IP Litigation".

On July 12th, 2023, Maryna Gulenko defended her doctoral dissertation entitled "Three Essays on Corporate Social Responsibility Activities and Reporting" successfully before the examination board. The whole team congratulates her on a fantastic dissertation and disputation!

On July 11, 2023, Simone Euler (Humboldt-University Berlin) presented the paper "Country level private firm transparency and M&A transactions" at the TRR 266/TAF Brown Bag Seminar. She is a PhD candidate at the Institute of Accounting and Auditing at the Humboldt-University Berlin. Her research interest is in the area of private firm transparency, as well as in the relation between NGO lobbyism and non-financial information.

As part of the module "Mergers, Acquisitions and Divestures" Dr. Veit Ostmeier from Beiersdorf, gave a guest lecture on 17. November 2022 from 09:00-13:00 with the topic: Insights into the strategy and challenges of Accounting and Consolidation. The guest lecture is part of TRR 266.

At 11. November Amira Shala and Elena Gilles from PwC will gave a guest lecture in the module "Financial Accounting I". The topic will be "The Sustainability Jungle: Non-financial reporting for financial institutions".    

Information preparation and processing is a central challenge and is examined within the framework of TRR 266 "Accounting for Transparency". These two topics are of outstanding importance, especially in M&A transactions. Therefore, we are pleased that Dr. Alexander Schmitz from the Boston Consulting Group offered a guest lecture in English entitled “Information Processing in M&A Transactions" as part of the Master's module “Mergers, Acquisitions…

This year's faculty workshop was held in Melle, from September 26-28, 2022. The program of the three-day workshop included 26 presentations and two poster sessions on current research topics. Here, Pia Stoczek gave a presentation on "Current developments in the European corporate bond market", which is part of the TRR 266 Accounting for Transparency. The workshop was a good opportunity to present the work of the young researchers and to exchange…

From October 05. - 07. October, 2022, Prof. Dr. Benedikt Franke and Dominik Katzer visited the Paderborn University to work with Prof. Dr. Urska Kosi and Pia Stoczek on a joint TRR 266 project. 

As part of the module "Mergers, Acquisitions and Divestures" Dr. Veit Ostmeier from Beiersdorf, gave a guest lecture on 17. November 2022 from 09:00-13:00 with the topic: Insights into the strategy and challenges of Accounting and Consolidation. The guest lecture is part of TRR 266.

At 11. November Amira Shala and Elena Gilles from PwC will gave a guest lecture in the module "Financial Accounting I". The topic will be "The Sustainability Jungle: Non-financial reporting for financial institutions".    

Information preparation and processing is a central challenge and is examined within the framework of TRR 266 "Accounting for Transparency". These two topics are of outstanding importance, especially in M&A transactions. Therefore, we are pleased that Dr. Alexander Schmitz from the Boston Consulting Group offered a guest lecture in English entitled “Information Processing in M&A Transactions" as part of the Master's module “Mergers, Acquisitions…

This year's faculty workshop was held in Melle, from September 26-28, 2022. The program of the three-day workshop included 26 presentations and two poster sessions on current research topics. Here, Pia Stoczek gave a presentation on "Current developments in the European corporate bond market", which is part of the TRR 266 Accounting for Transparency. The workshop was a good opportunity to present the work of the young researchers and to exchange…

From October 05. - 07. October, 2022, Prof. Dr. Benedikt Franke and Dominik Katzer visited the Paderborn University to work with Prof. Dr. Urska Kosi and Pia Stoczek on a joint TRR 266 project. 

As part of the TAF Brown Bag Seminars Kim Alina Schulz will hold a presentation on December 9, 2025. The title of presentation is “Tax Department Diversity: How Workforce Composition Shapes Tax Planning and Tax Risk".

As part of the TAF Brown Bag Seminars Marina Köllermeyer will hold a presentation on January 6, 2026. 

As part of the TAF Brown Bag Seminars Benjamin Noordermeer (University of Mannheim) will hold a presentation on January 13, 2026. 

As part of the TAF Brown Bag Seminars Dennis Böing will hold a presentation on January 20, 2026. 

TRR 266/TAF Research Workshop On 7 July 2026, Dr. Doron Reichmann (Goethe University Frankfurt) will hold a presentation at the TRR 266/TAF Research Workshop (TAF Department). Doron Reichmann is a post-doctoral researcher at the AccSus department of Goethe University Frankfurt. In his research, he examines the information content of verbal and nonverbal communications in financial markets. In this context, he primarily focuses on (i) using…