Martin Jacob
Professor, Chairholder of WHU’s Chair of Business Taxation at WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management
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- WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management
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WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management
Professor Martin Jacob holds the adidas endowed Chair of Finance, Accounting, and Taxation at WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management. He received his undergraduate degree in business administration and his doctoral degree from the University of Tübingen, Germany. His research focuses on the economic effects of taxation on business decisions. His work has been published in several leading international journals including the Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of Accounting Research, the Review of Financial Studies, The Accounting Review, the Journal of Accounting and Economics, Management Science, Contemporary Accounting Research, and the Journal of Public Economics. He further serves as Associate Editor of the European Accounting Review and Accounting & Business Research since 2016. His research has been widely cited in newspapers as well as policy debates.
Since 2021, Martin Jacob is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the German Ministry of Finance.
Education
- 2016 Initiative on Global Markets, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago Visiting Fellow
- 2012 Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA Visiting Scholar
- 2010 Uppsala Center for Fiscal Studies, Uppsala, Sweden Visiting Scholar
- 2010 Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen PhD
Academic Positions
- Since 10/2019 WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management adidas Professor of Finance, Accounting, and Taxation
- 2013 - 2019 WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management Professor of Business Taxation
- 2010 - 2012 WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management Assistant Professor of Taxation and Accounting
Awards
- 2016 Best Paper Award, German Academic Association for Business Research
- 2016 Best Teacher Award, BSc Program, Lecture: Business Taxation
- 2014 Young Talent Award, German Academic Association for Business Research
- 2014 Best Paper Award, X Workshop on Empirical Research in Financial Accounting, Corunã (Spain)
- 2013 Best Teacher Award, MSc Program, Lecture: International Tax Strategy
- 2013 Best Teacher Award, 2012/2013 BSc Program, Lecture: "Business Taxation"
- 2013 Business Research (BuR) Best Reviewer Award
- 2012 Best Conference Paper Award, 74th VHB Annual Meeting, Bozen, Italy
Videos
Online seminar by Professor Martin Jacob "Environmental Taxes and Corporate Investment"
What is financial accounting? | WHU
Research on Corporate Transparency - Unit 6 - Discussion Session (Martin Jacob, WHU)
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