Alexandra Niessen-Ruenzi

Alexandra Niessen-Ruenzi is Professor of Finance at the University of Mannheim in Germany. Her research interests are in the fields of corporate governance, corporate finance, and asset management. A special focus of her research is on gender differences in financial markets. Particularly, her projects focus on the question why the fraction of women in top management positions is so low, and what could be done to include more female talent in the work force.

Professor Niessen-Ruenzi’s research is published in top ranked academic journals (Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Management Science) and is also regularly featured by the business press (New York Times, Wall Street Journal). She presents her work at leading international conferences and is a regular speaker on gender topics in the financial industry. Her research papers won several prizes, including best paper awards at the Academy of Management, Rothschild Caesarea IDC Conference and Society for the Advancement of Behavioural Economics. She holds a PhD in Finance and has been a visiting scholar at several renowned institutions such as Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, and Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley.

Research

• Gender Differences on Capital Markets
• Corporate Governance
• Behavioral Finance
• Corporate Finance
• Asset Management
• Empirical Banking

Prizes, awards, honors

• Best Conference Paper, Rothschild Cesarea (IDC) conference, May 20-21, 2012, Herzliya, Israel
• Emerald Best Student Paper Award, Academy of Management, Annual Meetings 2008, Anaheim, USA
• Best Conference Paper, Midwest Finance Association, Meetings 2008, San Antonio, USA
• Best Conference Paper Award, Annual meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Behavioral Economics, 2008, New York, USA
• DGF Outstanding Paper Award, Annual meeting of the German Finance Association, 2006, EBS, Germany

Companies

• Ordentlicher Professor Universität Mannheim (2009)
• Visiting Research Scholar University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business (2015 — 2015)
• Visiting Research Scholar UNSW Business School (2011 — 2012)
• Visiting Research Scholar Georgia State University - J. Mack Robinson College of Business (2010 — 2010)
• Visiting Research Scholar McCombs School of Business, The University of Texas at Austin (2008 — 2009)
• Visiting Research Scholar Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management (2008 — 2008)

Education

• Dr. rer. pol. Universität zu Köln (2005 — 2009)
• Diplom-Kauffrau Universität zu Köln (2001 — 2005)