Dr. Lucas Knust
Dr. Lucas Knust
ZHAW
School of Management and Law
Center for Accounting and Corporate Reporting
Gertrudstrasse 8
8400 Winterthur
Work at ZHAW
Position
Senior Lecturer at the Institute for Financial Management
Focus
Financial Reporting and Disclosure, Corporate Governance, AI, Audit
Experience
- Assistant at the Chair of Financial Accounting
University of Zurich
04 / 2018 - 02 / 2022 - Global Supply Chain Controller
Bayer Consumer Care AG
03 / 2016 - 02 / 2018 - International Financial Management Trainee
Bayer HealthCare AG
09 / 2014 - 02 / 2016
Education and Continuing education
Education
- PhD / Business Administration
Graduate School of Business, University of Zurich
08 / 2018 - 07 / 2022 - Master of Science / Financial Economics
Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam
08 / 2012 - 07 / 2014 - Bachelor of Science / International Business Administration
Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam
08 / 2009 - 07 / 2012
Projects
- Modelling Board Performance and Diversity / Project leader / completed
- Empirical Analysis of Board Diversity / Project leader / completed
- AI-enabled network analysis of the Swiss corporate landscape / Project leader / completed
Publications
Articles in scientific journal, peer-reviewed
- Levich, S., & Knust, L. (2025). Discriminative meets generative : automated information retrieval from unstructured corporate documents via (large) language models. International Journal of Accounting Information Systems, 56(100750). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.accinf.2025.100750
- Knust, L., & Oesch, D. (2023). Fiscal monitoring and corporate investment. Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, 51(5-6), 1273–1301. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbfa.12714
Book chapters, peer-reviewed
Nagel-Jungo, G., & Knust, L. (2023). Nachhaltigkeitsberichterstattung : GRI-Standards ab 2023. In R. Eberle, D. Oesch, & D. Pfaff (eds.), Jahrbuch Finanz- und Rechnungswesen 2023 (pp. 145–172). WEKA Business Media.
Written conference contributions, peer-reviewed
- Cho, M., Knust, L., & Krishnan, G. (2024, June 26). Do voluntary peer disclosures impact audit fees? ERC Accounting Summer Camp, Bolzano, Italy 26-27 June 2024.
- Knust, L., & Oesch, D. (2023, May 25). Uncertainty and disclosure. 45th European Accounting Association (EAA) Annual Congress, Helsinki, Finland, 24-26 May 2023.
Other publications
Knust, L., & Oesch, D. (2022). Uncertainty and disclosure. SSRN. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4204992