Beginning of August, our colleagues Christoph Schneider and Dr. Paul Friedrich Hark attended the Aarhus Finance Forum 2026 in Denmark and presented their current research papers “The Outsized Role of Tax Havens in Mergers and Acquisitions” and “The 52-Week High and Corporate Announcement Returns”, respectively. The conference program featured research presentations, lively discussions, a keynote by Philip Bond, professor at the University of Washington, and a plenary session on “Compute, Complexity, and the Scaling Laws of Return Predictability” by Allan Timmerman, professor at University of California San Diego.

Beyond the conference, there was some time to explore the lovely city of Aarhus.

 Thanks to Steffen Meyer, Stefan Hirth and Aarhus BSS – Aarhus University for organizing such a great new conference!