Mario Schabus

Mario Schabus is an Assistant Professor of Accounting in the Eli Broad College of Business. He teaches Accounting for Management Decision Making (ACC 341) in the undergraduate program. Mario's research interests span managerial and financial accounting, organizational design, corporate governance, and regulation and politics. Prior to joining Michigan State University, Mario was tenure-track faculty at the University of Melbourne (Australia), where he taught Managerial Accounting to graduate students. He obtained a doctoral degree and Masters from the University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands), and was a visiting doctoral student at the University of Michigan. He holds an undergraduate degree in Business Administration from the University of Graz (Austria).

Education

• Visiting PhD University of Michigan - Stephen M. Ross School of Business (2015 — 2017)
• Master of Science (MSc) University of Amsterdam (2011 — 2012)
• Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz / University of Graz (2007 — 2011)

PUBLICATIONS

• Voluntary Clawback Adoption and the Use of Financial Measures in CFO Bonus Plans (with Peter Kroos and Frank Verbeeten), The Accounting Review, Vol. 93, No.3, May 2018, pp. 213-235.

• Surprise Election for Trump Connections (with Travers Child, Nadia Massoud, and Yifan Zhou) Journal of Financial Economics, Vol 140, Issue 2, May 2021, pp. 676-697

• Do Director Networks Help Managers Forecast Better? Forthcoming at The Accounting Review.

• The Relation between Internal Forecasting Sophistication and Accounting Misreporting (with Peter Kroos and Frank Verbeeten). Forthcoming at Journal of Management Accounting Research.