THIRD ACCOUNTING RESEARCH WORKSHOP JULY, 4 – 5, 2003 SPONSORED BY: DEUTSCHE FORSCHUNGSGEMEINSCHAFT AND BOSTON CONSULTING GROUP ½ 2 EDITORIAL ½ EDITORIAL Dear Participant, welcome to the Third Accounting Research Workshop in Stuttgart. Since our meetings in Cologne, 1998, and Magdeburg, 2000, there has been much progress in the European accounting research community This progress is reflected in the high in quantity and quality of paper submissions for this workshop. We are therefore happy to present a program that will hopefully please you. Nobody can successfully organize a conference without professional assistance and sponsoring. We therefore gratefully acknowledge both the contributions of our sponsors, the Boston Consulting Group and the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the professional efforts by Sandra Romahn (SIMT) and Francoise Tercier (University of Fribourg). We are especially grateful to Hans Tümmers, president of the SIMT, for hosting our conference in its beautiful building in Stuttgart Plieningen. We hope that you will find a constructive atmosphere, interesting and stimulating discussions, and that you take the opportunity to meet old and new friends around the workshop, briefly: We hope that you enjoy the workshop! Robert F. Göx, University of Fribourg Ulf Schiller, University of Berne 3 ½ ½ PROGRAM FRIDAY, JULY 4, 2003 13.00 - Ground Floor, Registration SIMT 13.30 - 14.15 Room 7/8, Welcome address: Ulf Schiller, University of Berne, and Hans Tümmers, SIMT First Floor Opening session (Chair: Ulf Schiller, Berne), Pascal Xhonneux , The Boston Consulting Group, Düsseldorf: "Expecation premium and BCG's valuation model" 14.15 - 15.45 Room 7/8, Invited speaker session I (Chair: Ulf Schiller, Berne) First Floor Nahum Melumad, Columbia : "Integrating Managerial and Tax Objectives in Transfer Pricing", Discussant: Frøystein Gjesdal, Bergen. 16.15 - 18.00 Room 7/8, Paper session I a: Contract Theory, (Chair: Robert F. Göx, Fribourg) First Floor Sunil Dutta, Berkeley :"Leading Indicator Variables, Performance Measurement and Short Term versus Long Term Contracts", Discussant: Christian Hofmann, Hannover. Volker Laux , Frankfurt: "The Ignored Performance Measure", Discussant: Jörg Budde, Bonn. Room 13 Paper session I b: Disclosure (emp.), (Chair: Dirk Hachmeister, Hohenheim) Second Floor Marco Trombetta, Madrid: "The Reputational Consequences of better Disclosures Quality", Discussant: Claudio Loderer, Berne. Lale Guler, Texas A&M "The Effect of Disclosure Strategy On Cost of Equity Capital", Discussant: Eric Nowak. 19.00 - Schlosskeller Dinner Uni Hohenheim ½ 4 PROGRAM ½ SATURDAY, JULY 5, 2003 09.00 - 10.30 Room 7/8, Invited speaker session II (Chair: Robert F. Göx) First Floor Ronald A. Dye , Northwestern, "Financial Innovations, Hidden Debt, and Firms’ Capital Structure Choices", Discussant: Ralf Ewert, Frankfurt/M. 11.00 - 12.45 Room 13 Paper session II a : Stock Options (Chair: Renate Hecker, Tuebingen) Second Floor Markus C. Arnold, Clausthal: "How to use stock and stock options for interest alignment: managerial investment behavior and portfolio considerations " Discussant: Barbara Pirchegger, Magdeburg Dirk Simons , Bielefeld: "Costs, Benefits and Tax-induced Distortions of Stock Options Plans", Discussant: Christoph Kaserer, Munich Room 7/8, Paper session II b: Budgeting & Transfer Pricing (Chair: Michael Bromwich, LSE) First Floor Stephan Lengsfeld, Tuebingen: "Duopolistic Competition, Taxes, and the Arm's- Length Principle", Discussant: Wolfgang Lein inger, Dortmund Thomas Pfeiffer, Vienna: "Capital Budgeting and the Option to Wait: Ex-Ante- versus Ex-Post Capital Rationing", Discussant: Anne Chwolka, Bielefeld. 14.00 - 15.45 Room 7/8, Paper session III: Accounting Standards and Governance Issues (Chair: First Floor Hans-Ulrich Küpper, Munich) Joshua Ronen, New York University: "Financial Statement Insurance", Discussant, Ernst Maug, Berlin Alfred Wagenhofer, Graz: "Economic Effects of Tightening Accounting Standards to Restrict Earnings Management", Discussant: Stefan Wielenberg, Bielefeld. 16.15 - 18.00 Room 13 Paper session Iv a: Investment Incentives (Chair: Hermann Jahnke, Bielefeld) Second Floor Gunther Friedl, Munich: "Growth Options, Organizational Slack, and Managerial Investment Incentives", Discussant: Heike Schenk-Mathes, Clausthal. Christian Gaber, Frankfurt: "Project Selection, Income Smoothing and Bayesian Learning, Discussant: Jens Robert Schöndube, Magdeburg. Room 7/8, Paper session IV b: Disclosure (theoretical) (Chair: Christian Ernst, Frankfurt) First Floor Jeroen Suijs , Tilburg: "Voluntary disclosure and risk sharing", Discussant: Michael Krapp, Augsburg. Evelyn Korn, Tuebingen: "Knowing Whom to Trust. Voluntary disclosure of Partially Verifiable Information in the Course of an Initial Public Offering", Discussant: Alwine Mohnen, Cologne. From 18.00 SIMT BBQ in the Garden of SIMT 5 ½ ½ INFORMATION ½ 6 PARTICIPANTS ½ LIST OF PARTICIPANTS Allmendinger, Silvia, Budde, Jörg, Universität Zürich, University of Bonn, Inst. für Rechnungswesen und Department of Economics, Controlling, Adenauerallee 24-42, Plattenstrasse 14, 53113 Bonn, Germany, 8032 Zürich, Switzerland, email: [email protected], email: [email protected], phone: +49-228-739247, phone: +41-1-6342984 fax: +49-228-735048. fax: +41-1-6344912. Chwolka, Anne, Arnold, Markus C., University of Bielefeld, Clausthal University of Technology, Department of Economics and Business Department of Economics and Business Administration, Administratiion, Postfach 10 01 31, Julius-Albert-Str. 2, 33501 Bielefeld, Germany, 38678 Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany, email: [email protected] email: [email protected], bielefeld.de, phone: +49-5323-727605, phone: +49-521/1063931, fax: +49-5323-727699. fax: +49-521/1066036. Berghäuser, Marcus, Crasselt, Nils, University of Cologne, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Department of Management Accounting, LS f. Internationale Albertus Magnus Platz, Unternehmensrechnung, 50923 Cologne, Germany, Universitätsstr.150, GC 2/135, email: [email protected], 44801 Bochum, Germany, phone: +49-221/470-4451, email: [email protected], fax: +49-221/470-5012. phone: +49-234/3225519, Bromwich, Michael, fax: +49-234/3214228. London School of Economics, Diaw, Khaled, Department of Accounting and Finance, Tilburg University, Houghton Street, Accounting and Accountancy, WC2A 2AE London, UK, Warandelaan 2, email: [email protected], 5000LE Tilburg, Netherlands, phone: 0044-2079557323, email: [email protected], fax: 0044-209557323. phone: 0031-13-4663339, fax: 0031-13-4668001. 7 ½ ½ PARTICIPANTS Dutta, Sunil, email: [email protected], University of California at Berkeley, phone: 0047-55959687, Walter A. Haas School of Business, 545 fax: 0047-55959320. Student Services Building # 1900, Foros, Oystein, 94720-1900 Berkeley, CA, USA, Norwegian School of Economics and email: [email protected], Business Administration, Departement phone: 001-510-643-1229, of Economics, fax: 001-510-643-1412. Helleveien 30, Dye, Ronald A., 5045 Bergen, Norway, Northwestern University, Kellog School email: [email protected], of Management, Dept. of Accounting phone: 0047-91750707, Information & Management, fax: 0047-55959543. 6229 Jacobs Center,6th Floor, Friedl, Gunther, 2001 Sheridan Rd, University of Munich, IL 60208 Evanston, USA, Inst. of Production Management and email: [email protected]. Management Accounting , Ernst, Christian, Ludwigstr. 28, RG, Goethe-University of Frankfurt/M., 80539 Munich, Germany, Chair of Controlling and Auditing, email: [email protected], Mertonstr. 17-25, phone: +49-89/21803889, 60054 Frankfurt/M., Germany, fax: +49-89/89344054. email: [email protected], Gaber, Christian, phone: +49-69/798-28482. Universität Frankfurt/Main, Ewert, Ralf, Accounting and Auditing, Goethe-University of Frankfurt/M., Mertonstr. 17-25, Chair of Controlling and Auditing, 60325 Frankfurt/M., Germany, Mertonstr. 17-25, email: [email protected], 60054 Frankfurt/M., Germany, phone: +49-69/798-23176, email: [email protected], fax: +49-69/798-23618. phone: +49-69/798-23880, Gabor, Günther, fax: +49-69/798-22718. Universität Zürich, Fjell, Kenneth, Inst. f. Rechnungswesen u. Controlling, Norwegian School of Economics and Plattenstrasse 14, Business Administration, Dept. of 8055 Zürich, Schweiz, Accounting, Auditing & Law, email: [email protected], Helleveien 30, phone: +41-1-6342984, 5045 Bergen, Norway, fax: +41-1-6344912. ½ 8 2 PARTICIPANTS ½ Gjesdal, Fröystein, phone: +41-31-6314714, Norwegian School of Economics and fax: +41-31--6314780. Business Administration, Dept. of Hecker, Renate, Accounting, Auditing & Law, University of Tübingen, Helleveien 30, International Accounting and Auditing, 5045 Bergen, Norway, Nauklerstr. 47, email: [email protected], 72074 Tübingen, Germany, phone: 0047-55959316, email: [email protected], fax: 0047-55959316 phone: +49-7071/29775977, Göx, Robert F., fax: +49-7071/295102. University of Fribourg, Henze, Frank, Chair of Managerial Accounting, Universität Tübingen, Fakultät f. Av. De l'Europe 20, Wirtschaftswissenschaft, 1700 Fribourg, Switzerland, Graduiertenkolleg, email: [email protected], Nauklerstr. 47, phone: +41-26/3008310, 72074 Tübingen, Germany, fax: +41-26/3009659. email: [email protected], Guler, Lale, phone: +49-7071/29-78173, Texas A&M University, fax: +49-7071/5838. Mays Business School, Hofmann, Christian, TAMU 4353, University of Hannover, 77843 College