Prof. Dr. Anna Rohlfing-Bastian

Anna Rohlfing-Bastian is Coordinator Accounting and Sustainability Reporting and Bridge Professor at the Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE. She is Professor of Managerial Accounting at Goethe University. In her research, she investigates the interplay of performance measures, incentives, and organizational design and how transparency affects investment decisions, the design of incentives, or managerial reporting choices. Moreover, she investigates how personality traits affect decision-making of economic agents. Her work has been published in The Accounting Review, the Review of Accounting Studies, and the Journal of Management Accounting Research.

Anna is a principal investigator at the TRR 266 - Accounting for Transparency and the DFG-funded project “Personality Traits and Incentives”. Moreover, she is the current president of the German Economic Association of Business Administration (GEABA e.V.).