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Faculty of Management, Economics and Social SciencesProfessorship of Empirical Accounting

Extramural Funding

 

The following section lists our key third-party-funded research projects conducted in the last five years. Details on the outcomes of these research projects are provided in due time. These projects were/are conducted under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Michael Stich and were/are pursed at the Ruhr-University Bochum, the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, and the University of Cologne.

  • Accounting enforcement - Competitive advantage or burden? (funding institution: Munkert and Partner Audits)
  • Accounting standards and sustainable development (funding institution: Schoeller Research Centre for Business and Society)
  • Determinants and consequences of sustainability reporting and assurance around the world (funding institution: KPMG International)
  • Do accounting standards break sustainable development? (funding institution: Metropolitan Council of Nuremberg)
  • Does competition on the audit market really reduce audit quality? (funding institution: Ludwig-Erhard-Research Centre for Cooperative Economics)
  • How do fixed expenses influence operational corporate decisions? (funding institution: Hans-Frisch-Foundation)
  • Incentives of auditors of medium-size clients (funding institution: Alumni Association of the University of Erlangen)
  • Sustainable financing and investing (funding institution: ifu - Management Institute)
  • Why are enforcement errors sometimes good news? (funding institution: Dr. Werner Jackstaedt Foundation)