Dr. Andreas Benz

Corporate Diversification and Capital Structure (with Daniel Hoang), 2021.
Winner of the Larry Lang Best Paper Award in Corporate Finance 2019
Revise and Resubmit at Review of Finance
2023 3rd Swiss Accounting Research Alpine Camp (Crans-Montana), 2021 Meeting of the French Finance Association (Nantes), 2020 Meeting of the Financial Management Association (New York), 2020 17th Corporate Finance Day (Liège), 2019 Meeting of the German Economic Association of Business Administration (Rostock), 2019 Meeting of the European Financial Management Association (Ponta Delgada), 2018 3rd SDU Finance Workshop (Odense), 2017 University of Mainz, 2017, University of Würzburg
Do Nonfinancial Firms Hold Risky Financial Assets? Evidence from Germany (with Daniel Hoang, Fabian Silbereis, and Raphael Stengel), 2022.
Revise and Resubmit at Journal of Banking and Finance
2021 Annual Conference of the European Financial Management Association (Leeds, UK), 2021 International Conference of the French Finance Association (Nantes, France), 2021 Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Finance Association (Galveston, TX, USA)
Picking Winners: Managerial Ability and Capital Allocation (with Daniel Hoang, Peter Demerjian, Martin Ruckes), 2023.
2023 Dolomites Summer Finance Conference 2023 (Bolzano), 2023 Annual Meeting of the German Finance Association (Hohenheim), 2023 Aalto University, 2023 Goethe University

2023 - today: University of Hohenheim, Akademischer Rat
2022 - 2023: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Postdoctoral Researcher
2016 - 2022: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Research Fellow
2015 - 2016: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Research Assistant
2012 - 2013: Sparkasse Karlsruhe, Risk Management (Full-Time), Credit Portfolio Modelling

2016 - 2022: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), PhD in Finance, Dr. rer. pol. (summa cum laude)
2014 - 2016: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), M.Sc. in Economics Engineering
2009 - 2012: University of Mannheim, B.Sc. in Economics

2022 - 2023: Faculty council (Fakultätsrat) of the department of Economics and Management at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
2019 - 2023: Library committee of the Department of Economics and Management at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Available Topics: Our chair offers many exciting thesis topics for your Bachelor's or Master's degree.
Get in Touch: If your interest is in working on a topic offered by me, please do not hesitate to contact me well in advance. My interest is that you make the most of your thesis.
Industry Cooperations and Own Topics: If you plan to cooperate with industry partners or have an own topic in mind, I am happy to supervise if the topic relates to my research areas.