Maarten Pronk

Maarten Pronk is a part-time full professor of financial accounting at the Department of Business Economics, Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University. He is also a partner in EY's Professional Practice department, maintaining a dual role in academia and professional services. His teaching focuses on financial accounting in the master’s program Accounting, Auditing and Control and various post-master programs.

• PhD, Tilburg University (with additional training from the University of Iowa)
• MSc, Erasmus University

His research interests lie at the intersection of financial accounting and capital markets, particularly focusing on disclosure practices, information content in corporate communications, investor behavior, and the role of earnings conference calls. His work investigates how managers convey information—or withhold it—and how this affects firm performance and investor perception.

The recent articles highlight a consistent focus on empirical analysis of corporate disclosure, especially in settings like conference calls. Themes include strategic silence, the usefulness of different segments of earnings calls, the impact of IFRS standards, and methodological questions in behavioral accounting research. His publications appear in leading journals such as The Accounting Review and the Journal of Accounting Research.

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He has supervised academic work, including a doctoral thesis, though specific advisees are not named. His professional experience includes five years at PwC’s Accounting & Valuation Advisory Services group and a continuing role as partner at EY, indicating active engagement in both academic and practical aspects of accounting. There is no mention of grant funding in the text.

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