Marcel Olbert

Previously a Research Assistant and PhD student at Germany’s University of Mannheim, Dr Marcel Olbert’s broad range of experience includes investment banking within the M&A advisory group of JP Morgan London, strategy consulting with Roland Berger and international tax and private equity with PwC and Flick Gocke Schaumburg. His research interests focus on the real effects of corporate taxation and disclosure regulation – examining how multinational businesses respond to incentives that stem from their regulatory and macroeconomic environment.

Marcel currently serves as an Associate Editor at the European Accounting Review. His work has been accepted for publication in The Accounting Review, the Journal of Accounting and Economics, the Journal of Accounting Research, and the Review of Financial Studies.

Marcel’s current research on tax reforms and multinational firm investment as well as on carbon taxes and carbon leakage in developing countries is featured by the Wheeler Institute for Business and Development. For his current work on the effect of public Country-by-Country Reporting on multinational enterprises’ global resource allocation, Marcel has received a grant from The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Marcel is seeking applications for professional research assistantships.

Marcel teaches in our LBS MBA programme and has been named in the businessbecause’s list of MBA professors to watch in 2022.