Jochen Pierk

Jochen Pierk

Associate Professor

EASYS

The European Accounting Symposium for Young Scholars (EASYS) is an annual meeting that takes place right before the European Accounting Association Annual meeting. 

It is meant to establish research networks among young scholars. Participants present their early-stage work and obtain feedback in a friendly and constructive environment. The target audience of the workshop is European faculty with the rank of post-doctoral researchers or assistant professor (non-tenured). The workshop includes around 25 participants to ensure a friendly environment to present early stage projects / research ideas. Presented research projects should not be under review / submitted to a journal. The symposium focuses on quantitative research in all areas of accounting (e.g., financial, managerial, auditing, taxation). Please note that the symposium is not related to the European Accounting Association. If you have questions about the EASYS meeting, you can contact us. 

EASYS 2024 - Bucharest, Romania

The next EASYS meeting will take place in Bucharest, Romania. The event is by invitation only. More info.


  • Lemonia Marina Rempoutsika (Open University), Accounting disclosure and regulatory intervention: Evidence at the bank holding company level
  • Sara Bormann (Goethe University Frankfurt), Accounting information systems and firms’ financial reporting similarity
  • Tim Martens (Bocconi University), Dividends as Actionable Information: Evidence from Patent Valuations
  • Katharina Weiß (LMU Munich School of Management), ESG Information and Analysts’ Forecasts Accuracy: Evidence from Analysts’ Research Reports
  • Cinthia Valle Ruiz (IESEG School of Management), Tax and non-tax government policies and the location of patents
  • Florian Habermann (Radboud University), Materiality as a Double-Edged Sword: Real effects of SASB Sustainability Topics
  • Ismail El Fassi (University of Lausanne), The Role of Relative Performance Feedback Across Human-Artificial Intelligence Collaboration Strategies

    • EASYS 2023 - Helsinki, Finland

  • Nikolaos Floropoulos (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), The informativeness of short-term and long-term annual analyst forecasts
  • Oliver Binz (INSEAD), Does Monetary Policy Transparency Reduce the Price Sensitivity of Publicly Traded Firms’ Investment?
  • Ionela Andreicovici (Frankfurt School of Finance and Management), CSR Disclosure and Agency Frictions: Evidence from Corporate Philanthropy Disclosure
  • Jeroen Koenraadt (London School of Economics), Do Firms Listen to Social Media Analysts? Evidence from Seeking Alpha
  • Amadeus Bach (University of Mannheim), Real Effects of Internal Information Allocation: Evidence from a Field Experiment
  • Nicolas Rudolf (University of Lausanne), Leading by Example: Can One Universal Shareholder’s Proxy-voting Pre-Disclosure Influence Corporate Governance Outcomes?
  • Stavriana Hadjigavirel (CUNEF University), Auditing on the Edge: Spillover effects of having a scrutinized client
  • Omar de Ines Anton (CUNEF University), Audit materiality and debt contracting

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    EASYS 2022 - Bergen, Norway

  • Sara Bormann (Goethe University), Trade Secret Protection and Firms’ Internal Transparency
  • Cinthia Valle Ruiz (IESEG), The Impact of Intangible Assets’ Mobility on Intangibles Location and Income Shifting: Trademarks vs. Patents
  • Tobias Bornemann (WU Vienna), Accounting Classification and Equity Investors’ Perception of Hybrid Financial Instruments
  • Baptiste Colas (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), A New Measure of Comparability: Do Information Processing Costs Lead to Informational Advantage?
  • Felix Vetter (University of Mannheim), Racial Diversity and Auditor Independence
  • Nathan Goldman (North Carolina State University), PCAOB Inspections, Knowledge Diffusion, and Corporate Tax Planning Effectiveness
  • Ferdinand Elfers (Erasmus University Rotterdam), Historical Cost vs. Fair Value Accounting: Impairment Choice and Trading Incentives

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    EASYS 2021 - Online

  • Sarah Kroechert (Lancaster University Management School), University Spending Efficiency and Diversity Outcomes
  • Pouyan Ghazizadeh (Universiteit van Amsterdam), Reporting Conservatism, Risk Aversion and Corporate Acquisitions
  • Max Margolin (Erasmus University Rotterdam), Multi-Rater Performance Evaluation and Calibration: Managing Multiple Assessments
  • Timo Vogelsang (Frankfurt School of Finance and Management), Behavioral Consequences of Managerial Punishments: The Effect of Termination Notices on Employee Absenteeism
  • Luminita Enache (University of Calgary), Counterpoised Disclosure: Evidence from the Biotechnology Industry
  • Marcel Olbert (London Business School), How Does Private Firm Disclosure Affect Demand for Public Firm Equity?
  • Nathan Goldman (North Carolina State University), Do companies manage earnings less after a critical audit matter disclosure?
  • Tim Martens (City University of London), Capital Market Feedback and Corporate Innovation

    • EASYS 2020 - Online

  • Harald Amberger (WU Wien), Internal Agency Conflicts and the Tax-sensitivity of Debt
  • Marcel Olbert (London Business School) , Private Equity Ownership and Financial Sophistication
  • Thomas Bourveau (Columbia Business School), Is there too much tipping?
  • Caspar David Peter (Erasmus University Rotterdam), Access to disclosure and pollution
  • Sara Bormann (Goethe University), Trade Secret Protection and Firms’ Investment into Internal Information Systems
  • Roberto Vincenzi (Bocconi University), Costumor Concentration and the Debt Structure
  • David Samuel (University of Wisconsin-Madison), “Just BEAT It” Do firms reclassify costs to avoid the base erosion and anti-abuse tax (BEAT) of the TCJA
  • Ann-Kristin Grosskopf (LMU Munich), Corporate social responsibility and stakeholder attention
  • Benjamin Osswald (University of Illinois), Tax Risk and Proprietary Costs
  • Nico Lehmann (Humboldt University Berlin), The effect of CSR disclosure on firm contracting: Evidence from the expansion of CSR rating coverage
  • Jan Riepe (Tübingen University), Do tax accruals trigger bank depositors’ reactions? — Evidence from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
  • Elia Ferracuti (Duke University), Market Inattention: Bounded Rationality or Rational Inattention
  • Sarah Kroechert (Lancaster University Management School) , Do Financial Investment Decisions Affect Individuals’ Non-Financial Decisions?
  • Oliver Binz (INSEAD), U The Information Content of Corporate Earnings: Evidence from the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
  • Ferdinand Elfers (Erasmus University Rotterdam), Does Fair Value Lead to Fire Sales? — Evidence from the Volcker Rule
  • Jochen Pierk (Erasmus University Rotterdam), Does Shark Tank enhance Entrepreneurial Activities
  • Thomas Keusch (INSEAD), Board Risk Oversight and Firms’ Environmental and Social Engagement
  • Ulf Mohrmann (Universitaet Konstanz), Auditors’ Going Concern Opinions for Banks and Market Discipline
  • Antonio De Vito (IE Business School), Austerity Spillovers through Firms’ Internal Networks: Evidence from Subsidiary-Level Data
  • Saskia Kohlhase (Erasmus University Rotterdam), The relation between tax rates, tariffs, and transfer pricing components
  • Aneesh Raghunandan (London School of Economics), (Non-)Enforcement for Sale? Political Connections to State Attorneys General and Corporate Misconduct.
  • Claudia Imperatore (Bocconi University), Are control rights and cash flow rights differences good for corporate investments? The case of family firms

    • EASYS 2019 - Paphos, Cyprus

  • Ulf Mohrmann (University of Konstanz), The Effects of Mandatory Audit Firm Rotation and Joint Audits on Audit Quality and Market Structure: Experimental Evidence
  • Yin Wang (Singapore Management University), Advertising and Disclosure: Do Firms Cluster Their Advertising around Disclosure Periods?
  • Matthias Breuer (Columbia Business School), Reporting Mandates and Innovation
  • Harm Schütt (Tilburg University), Accounting for Uncertainty: An Application of Bayesian Methods to Accruals Models
  • Thomas Bourveau (Columbia Business School), Accounting Standards and the Value Relevance of Private Firms’ Financial Reporting
  • Caspar David Peter (Erasmus University Rotterdam), What a difference a name makes – Disclosure avoidance and relative income
  • Christoph Sextroh (Tilburg University), Capital Market Relationships and Interfirm Information Spillovers
  • Marion Boisseau-Sierra (University of Cambridge), Sovereign ratings and their solicitation status
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    EASYS 2018 - Milan, Italy

  • Jan Riepe (University of Tübingen), The Dark Side of Entrepreneurial Overconfidence: Biased Self-Attribution and Entrepreneurial Advice Taking
  • Claudia Imperatore (Bocconi University), Accounting Conservatism and the Timing of M&A
  • Pietro Bianchi (University of Miami), How do disclosure and litigation affect the outcome of going private transactions
  • Katharina Hombach (Frankfurt School of Finance and Management), Firm Value Effects of Targeted Disclosure Regulation
  • Christophe van Linden (Belmont University), Do too many cooks spoil the broth? The effects of auditor alignment
  • Vivek Raval (University of Illinois at Chicago), The effect of non-timely gain recognition on the accrual-cash flow relation
  • Lorenzo Dal Maso (Erasmus University Rotterdam), Does the Joint Provision of Sustainability Assurance and Financial Audit Services Improve or Impair Financial Audit Quality?
  • Mary Herly (Aarhus University), How do Bank Bailouts Affect Firm Decisions?
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    EASYS 2017 - Valencia, Spain

  • Martin Holzhacker (Michigan State University), Relative Performance Evaluation and Synergies from Cooperation
  • Ulf Mohrmann (University of Konstanz), Can auditors become over-conservative? Evidence from market reactions to auditor changes
  • Caspar David Peter (Rotterdam School of Management), Private firms’ investment efficiency and local news media coverage
  • Zhongwei Huang (City University London), Economic Consequences of Hiring Wall Street Analysts as Investor Relations Officers
  • Harm Schütt (LMU Munich), Do financial news outlets cater to heterogeneous readers?
  • Paulo Maduro (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), Earnings manipulation in an information choice environment
  • Marcus Witzky (London School of Economics), Monitoring by Individual Investors
  • Nico Lehmann (University of Goettingen), Revisiting the monitoring role of sovereign wealth funds: Evidence from a quasinatural experiment
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    EASYS 2016 - Maastricht, The Netherlands

  • Mariano Scapin (University of Bristol), Accounting conservatism and tournament incentives
  • Jan Riepe (University of Tübingen), Public disclosure, depositors, and market discipline: Evidence from Germany
  • Sara Bormann (Washington University in St. Louis), Understanding the cost structure of a firm: Balancing activities and achieving economies of scope
  • Christoph Sextroh (Tilburg University), Why did politicians blame fair value accounting during the financial crisis? The role of conservative ideology and special interests
  • Anna Alexander (WHU), Corporate tax reforms and tax-motivated profit shifting: Evidence from the EU
  • Jochen Pierk (Vienna University of Economics and Business), Do foreign tax authorities benefit from the U.S. worldwide tax system?
  • Thomas Bourveau (HKUST Hong Kong), Proprietary costs and voluntary disclosure: Evidence from tax induced changes in R&D incentives
  • Chung-Yu Hung (University of Melbourne), The information role of proximity for corporate investment
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