Dr. Lucas Knust

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

• Empirical Analysis of Board Diversity / Project leader / ongoing
• Modelling Board Performance and Diversity / Project leader / completed
• AI-enabled network analysis of the Swiss corporate landscape / Project leader / completed

Publications

• Levich, Sergej; Knust, Lucas,

  2025.

  Discriminative meets generative : automated information retrieval from unstructured corporate documents via (large) language models.

  International Journal of Accounting Information Systems.

  56(100750).

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.accinf.2025.100750

• Knust, Lucas; Oesch, David,

  2023.

  Fiscal monitoring and corporate investment.

  Journal of Business Finance and Accounting.

  51(5-6), pp. 1273-1301.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/jbfa.12714

• Nagel-Jungo, Gabriela; Knust, Lucas,

  2023.

  Nachhaltigkeitsberichterstattung : GRI-Standards ab 2023.

  In:

  Eberle, Reto; Oesch, David; Pfaff, Dieter, eds.,

  Jahrbuch Finanz- und Rechnungswesen 2023.

  Zürich:

  WEKA Business Media.

  pp. 145-172.

• Cho, Myojung; Knust, Lucas; Krishnan, Gopal,

  2024.

  Do voluntary peer disclosures impact audit fees?[paper].

  In:

  ERC Accounting Summer Camp, Bolzano, Italy 26-27 June 2024.

• Knust, Lucas; Oesch, David,

  2022.

  Uncertainty and disclosure.

  SSRN.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4204992

• Knust, Lucas; Oesch, David,

  2023.

  Uncertainty and disclosure.

  In:

  45th European Accounting Association (EAA) Annual Congress, Helsinki, Finland, 24-26 May 2023.

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