DART researcher awarded IWP top research prize

DART’s Reinhard Schrank was awarded the main prize of the “Forschungspreis Wirtschaftsprüfung 2019”, granted by the Institut Österreichischer Wirtschafts-prüfer (IWP). He obtained the prize for his dissertation, “A Theoretical Analysis of Strategic Auditor-Client Interaction,” which he successfully defended earlier this year at the University of Graz. The prize was awarded to him at the 6. IWP Wissenschaftsforum at the WU Vienna, where Reinhard presented his award-winning dissertation to a diverse audience of academics and practitioners.

Also at this year’s IWP event, Georg Schneider presented his paper, “Information Leaks and Voluntary Disclosure,” co-authored with Michael Ebert (Paderborn University) and Ulrich Schäfer (University of Zurich).