On February 16th, 2022, Prof. Dr. Christian Hofmann and Prof Dr. Dr. h.c. Caren Sureth-Sloane give a presentation on "Transparenz. Herausforderung für Regulierung, Organisation und Forschung" at the farewell symposium for Prof. Dr. Mark Ebers at the University of Cologne.
Prof. Dr. Caren Sureth-Sloane was admitted as a full member of the North-Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts (AWK NRW) back in 2013. Since the beginning of this year, Caren Sureth-Sloane has also been represented on the presidium there as deputy secretary of the Class for Engineering and Economic Sciences.
Caren Sureth-Sloane is especially looking forward to the interdisciplinary dialog between the different faculties.…
TAF Research Seminar
On January 25, 2022, Stefan Zeisberger (Radboud University, Netherlands and University of Zurich, Switzerland) presented the paper "What is Risk? How Investors Perceive Risk in Return Distributions" at the TAF Research Seminar.
Most textbook finance literature assumes risk to be the standard deviation of returns (volatility), which is not only used by academics but also financial advisors, regulators and more. The paper…
On January 20th, 2022, Henning Giese gives a presentation on "Towards Green Driving - The Effect of Tax Incentives on the Registration of Plug-in Hybrids" at the 5th Vienna Doctoral Consortium at the WU Vienna, Austria.
As part of the Brown Bag Seminars, Sebastian Krull gave a presentation on January 11, 2022 on the topic "Skill, effort, luck: the impact of rankings on risk-taking in a social setting".
In the upcoming summer semester, Assistant Professor Elisa Casi-Eberhard will offer a new module called "Data Analytics Using R" (5 ECTS). The course offers a unique opportunity to learn the programming language and statistical software R using applied examples from the field of taxation and accounting.
R is a widely used tool in both academia and practice. The skills learned in dealing with R are thus relevant both in the further course of…
TRR 266/TAF Research Seminar
On Dezember 21, 2021, Marcel Olbert held a presentation at the TRR 266/TAF Research Seminar with the title "Private Equity, Taxes, and Local Governments".
On December 08th, 2021, Henning Giese successfully defended his dissertation "The Effect of Management Structure and Manager Liability on Tax Avoidance" at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt and, thus, successfully completed his Ph.D..
We congratulate Henning Giese and wish him all the best for the future.
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