Mario's research interest spans from managerial and financial accounting to organizational design, corporate governance and politics and regulation. Mario spent a few years in Australia working as Assistant Professor at the University of Melbourne before joining Michigan State University. He obtained both his master and doctoral degree from the University of Amsterdam and he holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Graz (Austria). His research has been published in top tier academic journals such as the Journal of Financial Economics, The Accounting Review, and Journal of Management Accounting Research.