Education, Grants, Honors & Fellowships
Education
JW Goethe Universität Frankfurt (Germany) "Habilitation" in Business Administration (German Post-Doctoral Degree), 2000
JW Goethe Universität Frankfurt (Germany), Dr. rer. pol., summa cum laude (German Doctorate, Business Administration), 1996
University of Wisconsin, Madison (USA), M.S., Finance and Management, 1991
JW Goethe Universität Frankfurt (Germany) Business Economics, 1987 – 1990
Grants, Honors, and Fellowships
Highly Cited Researcher, Thomson Reuters, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014
Distinguished Contribution to Accounting Literature Award, American Accounting Association, 2016, 2014
FARS Best Dissertation Supervision Award, American Accounting Association, 2017, 2016
FARS Best Paper Award, American Accounting Association, 2016
Fellow, European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI), 2014
Humboldt Research Award (Forschungspreis), 2012
Spaengler IQAM Best Paper Prize, Review of Finance, 2012
Emerald Management Reviews Citations of Excellence Awards, 2016, 2014, 2012, 2011
Research Fellow, Center for Financial Studies, Goethe Universität Frankfurt, 2011
AAA/Deloitte Wildman Medal (with Luzi Hail, Perter Wysocki), 2011
Allen & Overy Law Prize, 2011
Richard N. Rosett Faculty Fellowship, 2010 – 2012
Business and Public Policy Faculty Scholar, 2010 – 2011
Notable Contribution to the Accounting Literature Award (with Luzi Hail), 2010
Fellow, CESifo Research Network, since 2010
Neubauer Family Faculty Fellowship, 2009 – 2010
Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), since 2008
Joseph Sondheimer Chair, since 2008
ERIM Best Paper Award, European Accounting Association Congress, 2008
The Charles M. Harper Faculty Fellowship, 2007 – 2008
JFE All Star Paper Award ("Earnings Management and Investor Protection")
Research Associate, European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI), 2007-2014
The David G. Booth Faculty Fellowship, 2006 – 2007
Ford Foundation Visiting Faculty, 2005 – 2006
Fellow, Wharton Financial Institutions Center, since 2001
Geewax Terker Prize, Honorable Mention, 2004
Chair, Harold Stott Term Assistant Professor, 2003 – 2006
Research Grant, SMU-Wharton Research Center, 2003
Best Paper Award, German Association of Business Professors, 2002
Grant, International Summer School, University of Bonn, 1999
Harry Reynolds International Visiting Professor, 1998 – 1999
DFG Scholarship, German National Science Foundation, 1996
Invitation, Ernst & Young Doctoral Consortium, 1994
Fulbright Scholarship, 1990 – 1991