Sebastian Stirnkorb

My name is Sebastian and I am an Assistant Professor in Accounting from the University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Business School. You can find more information about me and my work on this site.

My research examines how the formatting and complexity of firm disclosure influences users, preparers and auditors of financial statements in their judgment and decision making. While my research projects involve several agents, they all relate to fundamental topics in financial accounting, such as disclosure credibility, investor learning, earnings management and fraud. Using mostly economics based experimental methods, I capitalize on the comparative advantage of experiments at disentangling the effect of disclosure on investment decisions, measuring intervening processes and drawing strong causal inferences.

Companies

• Assistant Professor in Accounting University of Amsterdam - Amsterdam Business School (2021)
• Researcher PhD Candidate Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (2016 — 2021)
• Visiting Research Scholar University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2018 — 2018)
• Intern Credit Suisse (2012 — 2012)
• Intern Deutsche Bank (2012 — 2012)
• Intern IMAP Spain (2010 — 2011)

Education

• PhD in Accounting and Control - Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Sept. 2016 – Aug. 2021
• Visiting Scholar - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Aug. 2018 - Dec. 2018
• Master in Economics and Management Studies - Humboldt University of Berlin and University of California, Santa Barbara Sept. 2013 - July 2016
• Studies in International Management (B.Sc. double-degree program) - European School of Business, Reutlingen (Germany) and ICADE Madrid Sept. 2009 - June 2013