Wayne Landsman, from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, visited the University of Graz in April for a DART course in Capital Markets Research in Accounting. The course mainly focused on the research design issues that empirical research faces in financial accounting. Landsman provided a lively and deep insight into the development of several of his own papers. In sum, the students enjoyed a diverting, amusing and informative seminar. In addition, Landsman presented his paper "Does Fair Value Accounting Contribute to Procyclical Leverage?" jointly written with Amir Amel-Zadeh and Mary E. Barth, within a lunch seminar.
