Liberal Arts and Sciences
Pundrich Lab
Led by Gabriel Pundrich · Economics(unverified)
What we study
Recent student projects in this lab have studied local sales taxes, building a national dataset of county and city rates from state government websites and analyzing how they change with economic and demographic trends. The PI's published papers are in finance, auditing and municipal bonds.
What working here is like
- Computational
- No organisms (data only)
- Coding required
- Project
- 1
- Papers
- 5
Current projects
Analysis of Local Sales Taxes in Response to Economic and Demographic Trends
This project scraped state government websites to build a national dataset of local sales tax rates from 2000 to 2024, then analyzed how state, county and city sales taxes change with economic and population trends.
From the Spring 2025 UF Undergraduate Research Symposium · abstract book, p. 54
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Recent papers, explained
- Regulating Financial Advice: Evidence from the Municipal Bond Market
2026 · The Accounting Review
Shows how a 2016 financial advice reform improved advice quality and bond issuance costs.
- Grammatical Errors, Financial Reporting Quality, and Audit Engagement Risk
2026 · Auditing A Journal of Practice & Theory
Finds that grammatical errors in financial reports signal poor reporting quality and audit risks.
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- Audit quality and the market value of cash: the role played by the Big 4 auditor in Latin America
2025 · Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting
Tests whether Big 4 auditors reduce cash-related value destruction in Latin America.
- The relation between conditional conservatism and managerial herding: evidence from M&A waves
2025 · Accounting and Business Research
Shows that conservative firms are less likely to imitate others in mergers and acquisitions.
- Managing Expectations Through Budgetary Slack: Evidence from Project Financing
2024 · European Accounting Review
Examines how lenders influence budget forecasts in project financing.
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