Dr Sander De Groote | UNSW Research

Keywords

corporate governance

insider trading

Fields of Research (FoR)

Corporate governance, Financial accounting, Accounting, auditing and accountability, Auditing and accountability

Biography

Sander De Groote

Senior Lecturer
School of Accounting – PhD, KU Leuven, Belgium | Master of Business Economics (Msc), KU Leuven, Belgium | Bachelor of Business Economics (Bsc), KU Leuven, Belgium

Sander joined the School of Accounting, Audit and Tax as a Lecturer in April 2020. He completed his PhD at KU Leuven in Belgium and also holds a bachelors and master’s degree from KU Leuven.

Sanders focusses on corporate governance, with a...view more

Sander De Groote

Senior Lecturer
School of Accounting – PhD, KU Leuven, Belgium | Master of Business Economics (Msc), KU Leuven, Belgium | Bachelor of Business Economics (Bsc), KU Leuven, Belgium

Sander joined the School of Accounting, Audit and Tax as a Lecturer in April 2020. He completed his PhD at KU Leuven in Belgium and also holds a bachelors and master’s degree from KU Leuven.

Sanders focusses on corporate governance, with a specific interest in the complex relations between company directors and the role of director behaviour in the firm information environment. His expertise lies in evaluation and quantifying determinants and consequences of individual behaviour in corporate boards. His interest is in assessing fairness in the firm information environment and in the treatment of different members of the board of directors. Sander studies insider trading using it as a measure of director diligence and ethics. His work has been published in Journal of Business Ethics, Auditing: a Journal of Theory and Practice, Decision Support Systems, Journal of Contemporary Accounting and Economics, and Accounting Research Journal.

My Grants

Research Grants

2025 AFAANZ Research grant for “Connection counts: who does the audit committee side with in the audit of the financial reporting process? ” ($5,500)
2022: AFAANZ Research grant for “What about the directors? Does being different influence a director opportunities in the board?” ($6,800)
2017: Limperg International Scholarship program grant supporting a research visit to Northeastern University (€ 6.460; maximum 5 scholarships awarded every year.)
2015: Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) PhD project funding for 4 years: "Board Insider Trading: an Investigation of Individual Director Characteristics, Board Social Connections and Consequences for Board Performance."

My Qualifications

PhD in Business Economics (Accounting): "Determinants and consequences of director opportunistic insider trading.", KU Leuven, Belgium

Master of Business Economics (Msc), KU Leuven, Belgium

Bachelor of Business Economics (Bsc), KU Leuven, Belgium

My Awards

2023: Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand Outstanding Reviewer Award for the 2023 Annual Conference
2021: Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand Best Paper Award in the Corporate Governance stream for "What About the Directors? Does Being Different Influence a Directors' Opportunities in the Board?"
2021: Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand Outstanding Reviewer Award for the 2021 Annual Conference
2017: International Accounting and Finance Doctoral Symposium Best Potential Paper Award for “Limiting Director Opportunistic Insider Trading Through Compensation.”
2016: International Accounting and Finance Doctoral Symposium Prof Michael McKenzie Best Paper Award for “Do companies care about insider trading behavior? Evidence from director turnover.”

My Research Activities

Dynamic Audit Committee Equity Incentives: Does Audit Committee Equity Stock or Flow Associate with Financial Reporting Quality? (Together with Anne-Florence Allard)
What About the Directors? Does Being Different Influence a Directors' Opportunities on the Board? (Together with Mathijs Van Peteghem and Dieter Smeulders)
Are directors informed? Director differences, information flows and insider trading on the board. (Together with Dieter Smeulders)
The Impact of Recurring Nonrecurring Items in Private Debt Contracts. (Together with Xueying Liang and Andrew B. Jackson)
The Role of Capital Expenditure in Innovation Investments: Insights from High-Tech Industries. (Together with Xiaotong Deng, Leonard Leye Li, and Gary S. Monroe)