Best TRR 266 Conference Paper 2019 awarded to three papers

During the TRR 266 Annual Conference on 28 & 29 November 2019 the attending members could vote for the best conference paper (“Best TRR 266 Accounting for Transparency Conference Paper Award”). Surprisingly, after counting votes it turned out there was not just one winner, but 3 papers had equally received the most votes. The awarded researchers and papers were:

Johannes Voget, Marcel Olbert, Thomas Hoppe, Caren Sureth-Sloane, Hans-Peter Huber, Joachim Gassen

Marcel Olbert (University of Mannheim): “Loss or Lost? Economic Consequences of Internal Capital Markets in Business Groups”
Hans-Peter Huber & Ralf Maiterth (HU Berlin): “Steuerbelastung deutscher Kapitalgesellschaften von lediglich 20% – Fakt oder Fake News?“
Thomas Hoppe, Caren Sureth-Sloane (Paderborn University), Susann Sturm and Deborah Schanz (LMU Munich) and Johannes Voget (University of Mannheim): “The Relation between Tax Complexity and Foreign Direct Investments: Evidence across Countries”

Participating Institutions

TRR 266‘s main locations are Paderborn University (Coordinating University), HU Berlin, and University of Mannheim. All three locations have been centers for accounting and tax research for many years. They are joined by researchers from LMU Munich, Frankfurt School of Finance and Management, Goethe University Frankfurt, University of Cologne and Leibniz University Hannover who share the same research agenda.