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CDSB Alumna Juliane Wutzler started a position as Professor of Finance and Controlling at Hochschule Worms, University of Applied Sciences. In 2018, Juliane received her PhD as doctoral student of our CDSB Accounting PhD Program on the topic “Essays on Voluntary Disclosure in Corporate Narratives”.

We are happy to announce the 11th GESS Research Day to take place online on 7 October 2021. The Research Day will be held as a whole day symposium (starting 9 am) via ZOOM and will include paper sessions, a career advice event, a discussion panel on science communication, and the GESS General ...

CDSB Alumnus Nic Schaub has been promoted to Full Professor of Household Finance at the WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management. The promotion recognizes his accomplishments in research and teaching. Read more: www.whu.edu/en/magazin/whu-general/new-professor-of-household-finance/

Since August 2021, CDSB Alumna Barbara Stage is Assistant Professor of Financial Accounting and Business Taxation at WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management. Her research focuses on the impact of taxes on firms and individuals. She investigates the effectiveness of transparency regimes to combat ...

The German Research Foundation awarded CDSS alumna Stefanie Walther the prestigous Emmy Noether fellowship. Stefanie leads the Emmy Noether Research Group “The media portrayal of majority and minority groups” at the Technical University of Munich. The groups project investigates the news media ...

The German Political Science Association (GPSA) awards Benjamin G. Engst the best dissertation award 2020 for his thesis  “The Two Faces of Judicial Power: Dynamics of Judicial-Political Bargaining”, which is scheduled to be published by Palgrave in 2021. In his book Benjamin assesses the direct ...

We extend a warm welcome to Professor Alexandra Niessen-Ruenzi as the new Academic Director of our Center for Doctoral Studies in Business (CDSB). Prof. Niessen-Ruenzi is familiar to many of our students and alumni in her role as Professor of Finance and Corporate Governance at the University of ...

Professor Carey is organising a Publication Support Series for female PhD students and early career students in Europe working broadly on empirical questions in the area of conflict, peace and human rights research. The series consists of three online workshops (April 2021, October 2021, January ...

Since February 2021, CDSB Alumna Elisa Casi-Eberhard is Assistant Professor at the Norwegian School of Economics (NNH) – Norwegian Center of Taxation (NoCeT). Her research focuses on the determinants and consequences of corporate disclosure and how tax policies affect individual and corporate tax ...

For their article 'Sometimes Less Is More: Censorship, News Falsification, and Disapproval in 1989 East Germany' published in the American Journal of Political Science CDSS alumni Katrin Paula and Christian Gläßel received the Prof. Dr. Anna und Prof. Dr. Jörg Jiri Bojanovsky-Foundation prize. The ...