Martin Loeb is a professor of Accounting
and Information Assurance 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 cybersecurity, 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
