Harm Schütt

Harm Schütt

Assistant Professor of Accounting

Tilburg University

Biography

I am an assistant professor in the department of accountancy at the Tilburg University School of Economics and Management. I received a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. My area of expertise is financial information analysis and valuation. My research focuses on how accounting influences belief formation in financial markets and how to use modern analytical methods for financial analysis.

Interests

  • Belief Formation in Financial Markets
  • Financial Statement Analysis
  • Financial Data Analytics
  • Valuation
  • Bayesian Statistics

Education

  • PhD in Business Administration, 2013

    University of California at Berkeley, United States

  • Dipl. Ökonom, 2007

    Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany

Papers

Peter D. Easton, Martin Kapons, Steven J. Monahan, Harm Schütt, Eric H. Weisbrod (2020). Forecasting Earnings Using k-Nearest Neighbor Matching.

SSRN

Matthias Breuer, Harm Schütt (2020). Accounting for Uncertainty: An Application of Bayesian Methods to Accruals Models.

Code SSRN

Alissa Brühne, Martin Jacob, Harm Schütt (2020). Technological Changes and Countries' Tax Policy Design.

SSRN

Martin Jacob, Harm Schütt (2019). Firm Valuation and the Uncertainty of Future Tax Avoidance. European Accounting Review.

Link SSRN

Harm Schütt (2018). Segmentation in the Financial News Market - Measurement and Application.

SSRN Appendix

Brian Ayash, Harm Schütt (2016). Does Going Private Add Value through Operating Improvements?. Journal of Corporate Finance.

Link SSRN

Recent Posts

Brown Bag: 'Matching to Reduce Model Dependence'

While visiting the WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management, Martin Jacob and I did a small intro session for new Ph.D. students on when and why you’d want to pre-process your data before drawing inferences.
Sep 22, 2020 1 min read PhD Teaching, Brown Bag

VHB Workshop on Modern Methods in Accounting Research

I was invited to offer two workshop sessions at the annual spring meeting of the accounting research section of the German VHB. It was a great event, hosted by the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management.
Mar 1, 2019 1 min read Workshop, Conference, Textual Analysis

Ph.D Forum Talk on Bayesian Statistics in Accounting Research

In May 2018, I was invited to hold a session at the annual EAA conference. It was designed as to be a gentle, basic motivation and introduction to what Bayesian methods have to offer to Accounting research and was specifically aimed at young accounting researchers who are interested in learning new, robust methods to identify the many latent constructs we deal with in accounting.
Jun 1, 2018 1 min read PhD Teaching, Measurement, Bayes

Teaching

I am currently teaching:

  • Research in Corporate Communication – Measuring Latent Concepts in the summer semester (Ph.D. course)
  • Academic Competences in Accounting with Lucas Mahieux in the winter semester (Pre-Master in Accounting)
  • Financial Statement Analysis with Stephan Hollander in the winter semester (Master in Accounting)

A few other graduate courses I have taught in the past are listed here. Github repositories for some courses can be found on my github page:

  • Introduction to Automated Textual Analysis in Accounting and Finance Research (MBR, Munich 2018, 2019, 2020, Nurnberg 2019)
  • Introduction to Quantitative Methods (MBR, Munich 2018) (Repo)
  • Robust Empirical Research in Accounting (SPAR, Munich 2018) (Repo)