Rate My Professor Stefan Schantl

Schantl's research at the intersection of accounting, finance, economics, and law employs microeconomic models to examine empirical patterns in firms' financial reporting and disclosure behaviors, capital market participants' information acquisition, investment, and engagement decisions, offering guidance for regulatory policy and disclosure mandates. His publications appear in leading journals such as Review of Accounting Studies ("Economic Effects of Litigation Risk on Corporate Disclosure and Innovation," 2024; "When do corporate penalties for financial misreporting enhance long-term firm value?" 2026), Journal of Accounting and Economics ("Optimal internal control and disclosure," 2020), Journal of Accounting Research ("Financial Reporting and Credit Ratings: On the Effects of Competition in the Rating Industry and Rating Agencies’ Gatekeeper Role," 2019), Journal of Accounting and Public Policy ("Deterrence of financial misreporting when public and private enforcement overlap," 2021), and Accounting and Business Research ("Analyst information acquisition and the relative informativeness of analyst forecasts and managed earnings," 2018). At the University of Melbourne, he coordinates and teaches introductory, intermediate, and capstone courses in financial, managerial, and sustainability accounting across undergraduate, master's, and PhD levels, including ACCT10001 Accounting Reports and Analysis since 2025 and ACCT90013 Financial Accounting Theory & Practice from 2018 to 2023. He serves as an ad hoc reviewer for Contemporary Accounting Research, Management Science, Review of Accounting Studies, and The Accounting Review, and supervises PhD students.