Stephan Hollander

Stephan Hollander is a Professor of Financial Accounting at Tilburg University. His research focuses on the role corporate communication plays in capital markets functioning efficiently, and on how regulatory and legislative changes and technological developments influence firms’ information environments. Much of his work uses methods in computational linguistics. For example, a simple pattern-based sequence-classification approach provides new insights on political risks firms are facing. Professor Hollander has published his research in Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Accounting Studies, and The Quarterly Journal of Economics. He obtained his Ph.D. in Accounting from Tilburg University. He has been a visiting research scholar at MIT’s Sloan School of Management and the University of Melbourne, and an auditor at Deloitte.

Expertise

• Corporate communication
• Computational linguistics in accounting
• Empirical accounting research

Recent publications

• Localized Information Acquisition: What Do Two Billion EDGAR Queries …
• Litjens, R., & Hollander, S. (2021). Localized Information Acquisition: What Do Two Billion EDGAR Queries Say About Who Acquires Information from SEC Filings and When? SSRN.
• Automatic summarization of earnings releases - Attributes and effects…
• Cardinaels, E., Hollander, S., & White, B. (2019). Automatic summarization of earnings releases: Attributes and effects on investors’ judgments. Review of Accounting Studies, 24(3), 860-890.
• Firm-level political risk - Measurement and effects
• Hassan, T. A., Hollander, S., van Lent, L. A. G. M., & Tahoun, A. (2019). Firm-level political risk: Measurement and effects. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 134(4), 2135-2202.
• Bridging the gap: The design of bank loan contracts and distance
• Hollander, S., & Verriest, A. J. M. (2016). Bridging the gap: The design of bank loan contracts and distance. Journal of Financial Economics, 119(2), 399-419.
• Does silence speak? An empirical analysis of disclosure choices durin…
• Hollander, S., Pronk, M., & Roelofsen, E. (2010). Does silence speak? An empirical analysis of disclosure choices during conference calls. Journal of Accounting Research, 48(3), 531-563.