ÖFG Workshop on Accounting, Information, and Financial Crises in Graz

On November 4th and 5th, CAR hosted the workshop ‘Accounting, Information, and Financial Crises’ initiated by the research group ‘Financial Crisis’ of the Austrian Research Association (Österreichische Forschungsgemeinschaft, ÖFG) at the University of Graz. CAR’s Alfred Wagenhofer contributed to the organizing and scientific committee. The workshop began with a panel discussion moderated by Josef Zechner (Vienna University of Economics and Business). The panelists, Stefan Bruckbauer (Bank Austria), Robert Bushman (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), and Marco Pagano (University of Naples Federico II), discussed causes and lessons from financial crises and current issues in the banking industry. On the second day, a number of selected international researchers presented their work related to the topic, including Sebastian Kronenberger (DART) with a paper titled ‘Signaling in Debt Contracting via Timely Voluntary Verification.’