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Professor Martin Jacob holds the adidas endowed Chair of Finance, Accounting, and Taxation at WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management. He received his undergraduate degree in business administration and his doctoral degree from the University of Tübingen, Germany. His research focuses on the economic effects of taxation on business decisions. His work has been published in several leading international journals including the Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of Accounting Research, the Review of Financial Studies, The Accounting Review, the Journal of Accounting and Economics, Management Science, Contemporary Accounting Research, and the Journal of Public Economics. He further is an editor of The Accounting Review (since 2023) and Associate Editor of the European Accounting Review (since 2023). He was an Associate Editor of eAccounting & Business Research from 2016 to 2023. His research has been widely cited in newspapers as well as policy debates.
Since 2021, Martin Jacob is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the German Ministry of Finance.

Recent Updates
Accepted paper
Corporate Tax Enforcement Externalities and the Banking Sector, Journal of Accounting Research | 2020, 58, 1117-1159 (with John Gallemore)
New working paper
Investment under Tax Policy Uncertainty: Evidence from Trump's Election and Tax Reform (with John Gallemore, Stephan Hollander, and Xiang Zheng)
New working paper
The Role of Personal Income Taxes in Corporate Investment Decisions (with Robert Vossebürger)
Contact Information
Martin Jacob
WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management
Burgplatz 2
56077 Vallendar, Germany
martin.jacob (at) whu.edu
Recent Updates
Updated Working Paper
Corporate Tax Enforcement and Business Activity
with John Gallemore | New version June 2023
Updated Working Paper
Who Bears the Emission Tax? Evidence from Corporate Investment
with Kira Zerwer | New version February 2023
Accepted paper
Do Consumers Pay the Corporate Tax
with Maximilian Müller and Thorben Wulff | accepted at Contemporary Accounting Research
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