From September 5-7, 2018, the Hayek Summer Workshop provides an opportunity to selected students of economics and neighboring disciplines to discuss causes, consequences, and remedies of the current low-growth and high debt environment. In this context, Prof. Christian P. Hoffmann will hold a workshop.

At the DPRG Financial Communication Working Group meeting on July 5, 2018 in Leverkusen, Sandra Tietz gave an insight into the current research on the triangular relationship of the Supervisory Board, Management Board and Communications Department.

On August 16-17, 2018, a joint doctoral colloquium with the Center for Research in Financial Communication and the Chair of Accounting, Auditing and Controlling at HHL was held as part of the fourth RIC conference.

In the 13th edition of The Reporting Times, an guest article on the research project “Digital Leasdership in Investor Relations” of the Center for Research in Financial Communication has been published.

Three book articles by the Center for Research in Financial Communication in the area of financial communication and investor relations have appeared in international publications in recent months.

With its paper “Establishing a dialogue between the supervisory board and investors: Empirical insights” the team of the Center for Research in Financial Communication was contributing to the 7th Conference of European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA) which took place from October 31 to November 03, 2018 in Lugano.

Lea Knabben starts as a new PhD candidate, supported by the “Center for Corporate Reporting” scholarship for Financial Communication; Lena Biberacher and Maximilian Van Poele support the team as research assistants.

The study “Investors and Supervisory Board in dialogue” in cooperation with the DIRK describes the status quo of the dialogue between investors and supervisory boards.

In the January edition of PR Magazin, the results of the study “Integrated Financial Communication” were published in the guest article “Two voices – one goal? How do investor relations and corporate communications cooperate in financial communication?”

As part of the DIRK workshop “Digital IR trends 2019” on 24 January 2019, Sandra Tietz discussed the results of the study “Digital Leadership in Investor Relations – How digital is Investor Relations in Germany?” with investor relations departments.