Martin Loeb is
a professor of Accounting and Information
Assurance and a Deloitte
& Touche Faculty Fellow in the Robert H.
Smith School of Business
at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is also
an affiliate professor in the University of
Maryland Institute of Advanced
Computer Studies (UMIACS). Dr. Loeb received
his Ph.D. from the Management in Managerial
Economics and Decision Sciences
(MEDS) group at Northwestern University’s
Kellogg School of Management. He received a
BS in mathematics and economics from the
State University of New York at Stony
Brook.
Loeb's early
research was in economic mechanism design, incentive
regulation, cost allocations, and cost-based
procurement contracting. His current
research deals with economic aspects of
information security, the interface between
managerial accounting and information technology, and the
effect of regulation on cyber security,
internal controls and disclosure.
Loeb's papers
span several business disciplines, and have
been published in leading academic journals,
including:
·
The Accounting Review
·
ACM Transactions on
Information and System
Security
·
American Economic Review
·
Contemporary Accounting
Research
·
Journal of Accounting
Research
·
Journal of Computer
Security
·
Journal of Law and
Economics
·
Journal of Public Economics
·
Journal of Accounting and
Public Policy
·
Management Science
·
MIS Quarterly
