GEABA Conference in Basel

At the end of September 2016, several DART and CAR members participated in the German Economic Association of Business Administration (GEABA) conference, which took place in Basel. CAR’s Rainer Niemann presented his paper, “Investment Effects of Wealth Taxes under Uncertainty and Irreversibility,” coauthored with Caren Sureth-Sloane (University of Paderborn). Four DART students also presented their papers: Kristina Berger on “Identity, cost of benchmark and incentives,” Harald Hinterecker on “Mandatory Disclosure of Environmental Information Decreases Investments in Green R&D,” Anna Ressi on “Relational Contracts with Positively Reciprocal Managers,” and Sebastian Kronenberger on “The Interplay between Financial Reporting Biases and Audit Quality” (coauthored by Volker Laux, University of Texas). Anna Ressi was also awarded the René Descartes prize for the best discussion.