Svenja Dube

Svenja Dube joined the Gabelli School of Business in September 2019 as an assistant professor in accounting. She received her PhD in accounting from New York University's Stern School of Business. She also holds an MS with majors in accounting and finance and BS in business administration both from Humboldt University in Berlin.

Professor Dube's research focuses on firms' information environments. Specifically, she studies both firm-initiated as well as stakeholder-initiated voluntary disclosures, including management forecasts, disclosure quality, and CSR disclosures.

She teaches Principles of Financial Accounting for undergraduates.

Education

• PhD: Accounting, New York University, 2019
• Master's: Business Administration (majors in Accounting and Finance), Humboldt University in Berlin (Germany), 2014
• Bachelor's: Business Administration (minor in Economics), Humboldt University in Berlin (Germany), 2011

Research interests

• Voluntary Disclosure
• Disclosure Quality
• Corporate Social Responsibility
• Uncertainty
• Innovation

Publications

• "Does Litigation Change Managers' Beliefs About the Value of Voluntarily Disclosing Bad News?" with M. B. Billings and M. C. Cedergren. The Review of Accounting Studies, Forthcoming

Working Papers

• "The Disciplinary Effect of Social Media: Evidence from Firms' Responses to Glassdoor Reviews" with Chenqi Zhu.
• "The Moderating Role of Disclosure Quality" with Christine Cuny.
• "R&D Investments and Management Guidance: Trading Off Information Asymmetry and Uncertainty in Firm Disclosure".