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. and 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). doi: 10.1016/j.accinf.2025.100750.
- Knust, L. and Oesch, D. (2023) 'Fiscal monitoring and corporate investment', Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, 51(5-6), pp. 1273–1301. doi: 10.1111/jbfa.12714.
Book chapters, peer-reviewed
Nagel-Jungo, G. and Knust, L. (2023) 'Nachhaltigkeitsberichterstattung : GRI-Standards ab 2023', in Eberle, R., Oesch, D., and Pfaff, D. (eds) Jahrbuch Finanz- und Rechnungswesen 2023. Zürich: WEKA, pp. 145–172.
Written conference contributions, peer-reviewed
- Cho, M., Knust, L. and Krishnan, G. (2024) 'Do voluntary peer disclosures impact audit fees?', in ERC Accounting Summer Camp, Bolzano, Italy 26-27 June 2024.
- Knust, L. and Oesch, D. (2023) 'Uncertainty and disclosure', in 45th European Accounting Association (EAA) Annual Congress, Helsinki, Finland, 24-26 May 2023.
Other publications
Knust, L. and Oesch, D. (2022) Uncertainty and disclosure. SSRN. doi: 10.2139/ssrn.4204992.