Naturally, the TRR 266 values exchange with the international scientific community and representatives from business and politics. We are very pleased to welcome many international guests throughout the years.
We are pleased to have welcomed many long-term and short-term guests over the last years. Our guests often visit us for just one or a few days – for example as presenters in our TRR 266 Seminar Series. In addition to these valued guests there are several researchers who visit us for a longer period of time as a long-term guest or through a Mercator Fellowship. If you are interested in a research stay with the TRR 266 or a Mercator Fellowship, you can find our opportunities here.
Mercator Fellows
Svenja Dube Fordham University Mercator FellowVisit website
Harm Schütt Tilburg University Mercator FellowWrite email
Chung-Yu Hung The University of Melbourne Mercator Fellow
The Mercator Fellowship is a scholarship within the DFG’s funding program. More information about the scholarship as well as interviews with our TRR 266 Mercator Fellows can be found here.
Long-Term Guests
Jillian Adams University of Waterloo Visiting Scholar 2022
Janja Brendel Chinese University of Hong Kong Research FellowWrite email
Christoph Endenich ESSEC Business School Visiting Scholar 2021
Darci Fischer Boston University Visiting Scholar 2023
Oliver Hegers University of St. Gallen Visiting Scholar 2020Visit website
Martina Rechbauer University of Graz Visiting Scholar 2019Visit website
Zhi Wang Southwestern University of Finance and Economics Visiting Scholar 2019
Long-term guests have visited the TRR 266 for an extended period of time or at least more than two weeks to collaborate with TRR 266 members on a joint research project.
Darci Fischer about her experience in the TRR 266
Darci Fischer was a Guest Researcher in the TRR 266 from September to October 2023. Completing her PhD at Boston University she focuses on tax and financial reporting regulation. During her stay in Germany, she visited the University of Mannheim and went to the Mannheim Taxation Conference. Darci Fischer remembers: “Starting my visit with the Mannheim Taxation Conference was fantastic. I listened to presentations from tax researchers worldwide from both public economics and accounting and also met many local researchers from the University of Mannheim that I continued to interact with throughout my stay.”
Then, after a short visit to the WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management in Vallendar, she stayed at the taxation department of the University of Paderborn for a couple of weeks. In Paderborn, she had the opportunity to present her current research during a brown bag seminar. “I was impressed by the quality of papers and comments I received. It is a welcoming, lively community supplemented with active seminars and great external speakers. There was always someone interesting to talk to and eat lunch with. There is such a range of interests within the TRR 266 that I had opportunities to discuss many topics. Frequent areas included how corporate tax incentives affect business decisions, tax disclosure, and financial reporting quality”, she explains. Besides the intense academic exchange, she also bonded with colleagues through free time activities like a city tour of Paderborn and going to the local autumn fair “Herbst Libori”.
Overall, Darci Fischer enjoyed her stay at the TRR 266: “One valuable lesson I learned was that a cross-institutional community of researchers that are familiar with each other’s work and collaborate often can be greater than the sum of its parts. That is something I will keep in mind as I try to create my own network. The stay helped me with my research by providing a space to form relationships with others who share my interests and multiple opportunities to present my work. I also thought it was valuable to learn more about the German tax system and institutions and compare that to US institutions I’m more familiar with to generate ideas.”
Short-Time Guests
Harald Amberger WU Wien
Markus Arnold University of Bern
Ulrich Atz New York University
Oliver Binz Duke University
Jennifer Blouin Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Jeffrey Burks University of Notre Dame
Richard Cazier University of North Texas
Peter Easton University of Notre Dame
Elizabeth Evans University of Stirling
Peter Fiechter University of Neuchatel
Henry Friedman UCLA Anderson School of Management
Beatrice García Osma Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Robert Göx University of Zurich
Nathan Goldman NC State University
Luzi Hail Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Dominik Katzer University of Würzburg
Kenneth Klassen University of Waterloo
Saskia Kohlhase Erasmus University Rotterdam
Lisa Koonce McCombs School of Business
Nico Lehmann Humboldt University of Berlin
Christian Leuz Chicago Booth
Yijun Li Erasmus University Rotterdam
Sofia Lourenco Lisbon School of Economics & Management
Daniele Macciocchi University of Utah
Paul Madsen Warrington College of Business
Kevin Markle Michigan State University
Antonio Marra Universitá Bocconi
Giovanna Michelon University of Bristol
Martin Nienhaus Goethe University Frankfurt
Reining Petacchi Georgetown University
Jochen Pierk Erasmus University Rotterdam
Kristina Rennekamp Cornell University
Sugata Roychowdhury Northwestern University
Dirk Schindler Norwegian School of Economics
Martin Simmler Saïd Business School
Shiwon Song INSEAD
Derrald Stice HKU Business School
Lorien Stice-Lawrence University of Southern California
Phillip C. Stocken Tuck School of Business
Erin Towery University of Georgia
Aljosa Valentincic University of Ljubljana _
Alfred Wagenhofer University of Graz
Michael Welker Smith School of Business
Teri Lombardi Yohn Emory University Goizueta Business School
Benjamin Yost Carroll School of Management
Eric Zwick Chicago Booth
Short-term guests have visited the TRR 266 for just one or a few days – for example as presenters in the TRR 266 Seminar Series that is an integral part of the local seminar series at the participating universities. Apart from researchers, practitioners and policymakers also regularly visit us to share their knowledge during the TRR 266 lecture series. You can find an overview about all our previous and future short-term guests on our events page.
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.