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Chair of Financial Accounting

Chair

Prof. Dr. Benedikt Franke

Lehrstuhlinhaber
Lehrstuhl für BWL und Externe Unternehmensrechnung
Building: Neue Universität
Room: 312
Phone: +49 931 31 88369
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5126-352X

  • Position: Chair of Financial Accounting at Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg
  • Previous positions: Assistant Professor of Accounting, SKEMA Business School, Paris (France)
     
  • Academic background:
    • Doctorate at the Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences, University of Mannheim
    • Research Assistant and Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Mannheim
    • Visiting Scholar at Simon Fraser University (Canada) and at the University of Graz (Austria)
  • Research focus:
    • Corporate transparency
    • The impact of technological innovations on the provision and use of corporate information
  • Externally funded projects:
    • Collaborative Research Center TRR 266 “Accounting for Transparency,” funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)
    • “Broad-based education and target group-specific information on the prerequisites, possibilities, and measures for more sustainability-oriented procurement in the public sector with a focus on renewable resources,” funded by the Agency for Renewable Resources (FNR)

  • The (Limited) Power of Blockchain Networks for Information Provision. Franke, Benedikt; Fritz, Qi Gao; Stenzel, André. In Management Science, 70(2), pp. 971–990. Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), 2024.
  • Securities law precedents, legal liability, and financial reporting quality. Franke, Benedikt; Huang, Allen H; Li, Reeyarn Z; Wang, Hui. In Review of Finance, 28(2), C. Parsons (ed.), pp. 413–445. Oxford University Press (OUP), 2023.
  • Enforcement and disclosure. Franke, Benedikt; Simons, Dirk. In Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, 42(5), p. 107131. Elsevier BV, 2023.
  • Private Debt and Timely Loss Recognition. Franke, Benedikt; Müller, Sonja. In European Accounting Review, 28(3), pp. 423–450. Informa UK Limited, 2018.
  • The q-factors and expected bond returns. Franke, Benedikt; Müller, Sebastian; Müller, Sonja. In Journal of Banking & Finance, 83, pp. 19–35. Elsevier BV, 2017.
  • Enforcement Actions and Auditor Changes. Brocard, Marcus; Franke, Benedikt; Voeller, Dennis. In European Accounting Review, 27(3), pp. 407–436. Informa UK Limited, 2017.
  • Who benefits from the preferential treatment of business property under the German inheritance tax?. Franke, Benedikt; Simons, Dirk; Voeller, Dennis. In Journal of Business Economics, 86(9), pp. 997–1041. 2016.