Jonas Heese

Jonas Heese is an assistant professor of business administration in the Accounting & Management Unit. He teaches the Financial Reporting and Control course in the MBA required curriculum.

In his research, Professor Heese focuses on the political economy of regulatory enforcement of accounting standards in the United States, and specifically on the preferences of regulators and the reaction of firms to these preferences. He has explored these ideas in the context of the Securities and Exchange Commission and of agencies that regulate the health-care industry. 

Professor Heese holds a Ph.D. and an M.Sc. in accounting from Maastricht University in the Netherlands.

AWARDS & HONORS

• Winner of the 2021 FESE De La Vega Best Paper Award for “Does Industry Employment of Active Regulators Weaken Oversight?”
• Received the 2020 European Accounting Review Best Reviewer Award.
• Winner of the 2019 Best Management Accounting Paper Award at the Annual Meeting of the American Accounting Association for “When the Boss Comes to Town: The Effects of Headquarters’ Visits on Facility-Level Misconduct” with Gerardo Perez Cavazos.
• Winner of the ACA 2018 Best Paper Award from the University of St. Gallen’s Institute of Accounting, Control and Auditing for “The Effect of Monitoring by Management on Corporate Misconduct” with Gerardo Pérez Cavazos.
• Winner of the 2015 Healthcare Management Division Award for Best Paper Submitted to the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management for "Regulator Leniency and Mispricing in Beneficent Nonprofits" with Ranjani Krishnan and Frank Moers.
• "Regulator Leniency and Mispricing in Beneficent Nonprofits” (with Ranjani Krishnan and Frank Moers) was selected for publication in the 2015 Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings.

AREAS OF INTEREST

• accounting red flags
• corporate accountability
• corporate culture
• corporate governance
• financial reporting