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- Research Member
Professor Volker Laux
Biography
Volker Laux holds the Randal B. McDonald Chair in Accounting at The University of Texas at Austin. He conducts analytical research at the intersection between corporate governance and accounting. His research has been published in many top academic journals including the Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting and Economics, The Accounting Review, the Journal of Financial Economics, Management Science, and the RAND Journal of Economics.
Laux is an associate editor for the Journal of Accounting Research and has served as an associate editor for Management Science. He is currently serving on the editorial board of Contemporary Accounting Research and has served on the editorial boards of The Accounting Review and the Journal of Management Accounting Research.
Born in Germany, Laux earned a doctoral degree at the Goethe University Frankfurt in Germany.