Christian Hofmann is Professor for Accounting and Control at Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU) of Munich. His research focus is on the usefulness of accounting information in capital markets and for performance evaluation. His current work concentrates on the incentives in hierarchies and dynamic incentives. He is editor of the Journal of Business Economics and the Journal of Management Accounting Research, for which he is also responsible as editorial board member. His research has been published in several leading journals such as the Accounting Review and the Contemporary Accounting Research.