19.00 - 20.00 Early bird reception: Browns Bristol, 38 Queens Road, Clifton

Note: Sessions will take place in The Fry Building, Woodland Road, University of Bristol 

8.45 - 9.15 Registration

9.20 -9.30 Opening Remarks

Session 1: The Gender Position Gap and Firm Performance

Chuchu Liang* (University of California, Irvine), Ben Lourie (University of California, Irvine), Alex Nekrasov (University of Illinois, Chicago) and Terry Shevlin (University of California, Irvine)

Discussant: Francesca Franco (Bocconi University)

10.30 - 11.00  Coffee break

11.00 - 12.00

Session 2:  Equity Book-to-Market Ratios Above One and Macroeconomic Risk

Mary Barth (Stanford), Doron Israeli (Reichman University and Nazarbayev University) and Suhas Sridharan* (Emory University)

Discussant: Oliver Binz (ESMT, Berlin)

12.05 - 13.05

Session 3: Investor Sentiment and Information Demand

Devon Erickson (Utah State University), Jayson Talakai* (Utah State University), Kevin H. Kim (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) and Lynn Rees (Utah State University)

Discussant: Eirini Konstantinidi (University of Manchester)

13.05 - 14.15 Lunch

14.15 - 15.15

Session 4: Auditors’ Response to Client Corruption: Evidence from Google Document Frequency

Nerissa Brown* (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Jennifer R. Joe (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Pamplin), Kecia Williams Smith (North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University) and Henry Wang (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

Discussant: Frank Heflin (University of Georgia)

15.15 - 15.45 Coffee break

15.45 - 16.45

Session 5: Disclosure Benchmarking by Lawyers: Evidence from the IPO Setting

Mike Drake (Brigham Young University), Jeff McMullin (Indiana University), Kenneth Merkley (Indiana University), Chase Potter* (Washington State University) and John Treu (West Virginia University)

Discussant: Anne Jeny (IÉSEG School of Management, Paris)

17.00 - 18.00 Meetings of Editorial Board and Editors

19.30 - Conference dinner: The Orangery, Goldney Hall, Clifton

* Presenting authors

9.00 -10.00

Session 6: Retail Investors’ Trades around Comment Letter Disclosures

Pawel Bilinski (City University of London), Ruby Brownen-Trinh* (University of Bristol) and Joe Joonghi Cho (University of Bristol)

Discussant: Bret Johnson (George Mason University)

10.05 -11.05

Session 7: The Nexus of Corporate Disclosure and Investors’ Information Needs: An Analysis Using Topic Modelling

Daphne Lui (ESSEC), Cong Tao (ESSEC), Andreea Moraru-Arfire* (ESSEC)

Discussant: Christof Sextroh (University of Oldenburg and Tilburg University)

11.05 -11.35 Coffee break

11.35 -12.35

Session 8: The Unintended Consequences of Data Breach Notification Laws on Insider Trading

Xi Chen* (University of Bristol), Gilles Hilary (Georgetown University) and Xiaoli Tian (Georgetown University).

Discussant: Christina Dargenidou (Exeter University)

12.35 - 12.45  Wrap-up

12.45 – 14.00 Lunch

* Presenting authors

Bristol Airport serves many international destinations and is served by easyjet, Ryanair, Lufthansa and KLM. Bristol is also easily accessible via London Heathrow. If arriving in Bristol Airport, you will need to take the A1 bus or taxi to your hotel in Bristol city centre. Buses cost about £10 each way and take around 30 minutes. Taxis cost approximately £30 each way and usually take 20-25 minutes.

If travelling via London Heathrow, you will need to first travel into London Paddington train station (either via Heathrow Express or the Elizabeth line) and then take the train to Bristol Temple Meads station.

From London Paddington, there are frequent trains direct to Bristol Temple Meads station. The journey takes around 90 minutes. (There are also trains to Bristol Parkway and from there, you can take the short journey to Temple Meads, which takes 10 minutes.)

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