Experts & Expertise

• Methodology and statistics
• Accounting

See also: my page on the Social Science Research Network.

Working papers:

• Tahoun, A. and L. van Lent (2010), Equity ownership and campaign financing of members of congress and the bailout of the financial sector.

• Bouwens, J. and L. van Lent (2007), Managerial investment horizon and the role of performance measures.

• Abernethy, M., J. Bouwens and L. van Lent (2009), The role of performance measures in the intertemporal decisions of business unit managers.
  
  
• Bouwens, J., C. Hofmann, and L. van Lent (2010), Aggregate and specific performance measures and intra-firm interdependencies: Theory and evidence.
  
  
• Bouwens, J. and L. van Lent (2009), Control systems and the innate preferences of managers.
  
  
• Bouwens, J. and L. van Lent (2003), Performance measure diversity and the delegation of authority in organizations.

Visiting positions:

• Visiting Professor of Accounting, University of Melbourne, 2004
• Visiting Scholar, William E. Simon School of Business Administration, University of Rochester, 1996-1998

Editorial positions:

• Associate Editor, European Accounting Review, 2004 - present
• Joint Guest Editor (together with James A. Ohlson), European Accounting Review, Special Issue on Conservatism in Accounting, published in 2006, vol. 15, no. 4.

Editorial boards:

• Contemporary Accounting Research, 2005 - present
• International Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Performance Evaluation, 2005 -present
• BuR Business Research, 2007 - present
• Management Control & Accounting, 2002 - present

Ad hoc reviewer:

The Accounting Review, Review of Accounting Studies Journal, Management Science, Accounting and Finance, British Accounting Review, Management Accounting Research, Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research, Austrian Science Fund, Contemporary Accounting Research, European Accounting Review, International Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Performance Evaluation, Journal of Management Accounting Research

Chairperson of the following Ph.D. committees (initial placement in parentheses):

• Valeri Nikolaev, 2007, Financial reporting, debt contracting and valuation (University of Chicago), cum laude, Second Prize, Tilburg University Best Dissertation Competition 2007
• Flora Kuang, 2007, Incentive effects of performance vested stock options (Free University, Amsterdam)
• Yuping Jia, 2008, Essays on the role of managerial type in financial reporting (University of Mannheim, Germany)

Administrative positions at Tilburg University:

• Research coordinator Accounting, 2001 - present
• Educational coordinator M.Phil. and Ph.D. programs in Accounting, 2001 - present
• Seminar coordinator Accounting, 2000 - present

Other service activities:

• Faculty, Doctoral Colloquium European Accounting Association, 2008, 2009
• Faculty member, INTACCT project (funded under the EU 6th framework Marie Curie program), 2006 - present
• Member Education Committee of the Limperg Institute, 2003 - present
• Member Permanent Review Panel, Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), 2004 - 2006
• Member Curriculum Committee Financial Accounting Theory, Nivra-Universiteit Nyenrode, 2000 - 2003
• Member of the organizing committee of the EU sponsored (5th framework program) euroconference series FIRRE, Financial reporting and regulatory practices in Europe, European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management (EIASM), 2001-2003, Palermo, Den Bosch, and Corsica.
• Advisory Board Member, Center for Accounting Research and Education, University of Notre Dame, 2009 - present.

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