Dr. Andreas Benz

Picking Winners: Managerial Ability and Capital Allocation (with Daniel Hoang, Peter Demerjian, Martin Ruckes), 2024.
Revise and Resubmit at The Accounting Review (ABDC A*, FT50, VHB A+)
2025 FARS Midyear Meeting of the AAA Financial Accounting and Reporting Section (Atlanta), 2024 Symposium of the German Economic Association of Business Administration (Bonn), 2024 Meeting of the European Financial Management Association (Lisbon), 2024 Second Aarhus Workshop on Strategic Interaction in Corporate Finance (Aarhus), 2024 84th Annual Scientific Conference of the VHB (Luneburg), 2023 Dolomites Summer Finance Conference (Bolzano), 2023 Annual Meeting of the German Finance Association (Hohenheim), 2023 Aalto University, 2023 Goethe University

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 (ABDC A*, FT50, VHB A+)
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)

2023 - today: University of Hohenheim, Akademischer Rat
2022 - 2023: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Postdoctoral Researcher
2016 - 2022: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Ph.D. Student
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), Ph.D. in Finance (Dr. rer. pol.), graduated with summa cum laude,
Winner of the Award for the Best Ph.D. Thesis in Business Administration at the KIT-Department of Economics and Management, 2022.
2014 - 2016: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Master of Science in Economics Engineering, Major in Corporate Finance and IT
2009 - 2012: University of Mannheim, B.Sc. in Economics

Georgia State University, Atlanta (USA), Visiting Scholar, 10/2024 - 11/2024
Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland (USA), Visiting Scholar, 6/2018 - 7/2018

FEINSCHLIFF-Talent Management Program for Postdocs at University of Hohenheim, 2024
Award for the Best Ph.D. Thesis in Business Administration at the KIT-Department of Economics and Management, 2022
Excellence in Teaching Award for the Tutorial in “Financial Intermediation” at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), 2021
Larry Lang Award for the Best Paper in Corporate Finance at the EFMA Annual Meeting, 2019
Excellence in Remote Teaching Award during COVID-19 at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), 2020
Networking Grant of the Karlsruhe House of Young Scientists (KHYS), 2018

2019 - 2023: Faculty Council Member (Fakultätsrat): Representative of the Scientific Staff (Akademischer Mittelbau) of the Department of Economics and Management at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
2017 - 2019: Member of Various Faculty and Search Commissions at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

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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.