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Frank Ecker

Adjunct Professor of Fuqua School of Business
Fuqua School of Business
Box 90120, Durham, NC 27708-0120
Fuqua School of Business, Durham, NC 27708

Overview


Frank Ecker is an Assistant Professor of Accounting at the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University. His research focuses on the role of accounting information for capital market participants and has been published in top accounting journals.

Frank teaches an elective course in Valuation and Fundamental Analysis to Daytime and Executive M.B.A. students.

He earned a Bachelor’s degree in Finance at Berufsakademie Mannheim, and has an M.B.A and Ph.D. from University of Trier. Prior to his graduate studies, he worked for Deutsche Bank AG and DGZ Dekabank Luxembourg S.A.

Current Appointments & Affiliations


Adjunct Professor of Fuqua School of Business · 2017 - Present Fuqua School of Business

Recent Publications


Payoffs to Aggressiveness

Conference Accounting Review · November 1, 2023 For a broad sample of firms, we use structural equations modeling to construct latent variables for real-action aggressiveness and reporting policy aggressiveness. We estimate the association between the latent variables and the associations of each latent ... Full text Cite

Non-random sampling and association tests on realized returns and risk proxies

Journal Article Review of Accounting Studies · June 1, 2021 This paper investigates how data requirements often encountered in archival accounting research can produce a data-restricted sample that is a non-random selection of observations from the reference sample to which the researcher wishes to generalize resul ... Full text Cite
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Education, Training & Certifications


Universitat Trier (Germany) · 2005 Ph.D.