Won national master’s award
Embla Jansen and Stine-Mari Stavik won the ISACA Norway Chapter's award for best master's thesis. They have examined how the share market reacted to 42 of the world’s biggest cyberattacks.
Associate Professor Carsten Gero Bienz
- Carsten.Bienz@nhh.no
- Telephone
- +47 55 95 93 74
- Department
- Finance
- Centre
- Centre for Corporate Finance CBE
- Office
- C615
- Expertise
- Corporate Finance Venture Capital Private Equity
BIOGRAPHY
Carsten Bienz joined the Norwegian School of Economics in 2006 as an Assistant Professor. He became a tenured Associate Professor in 2009. Carsten holds a Diploma in Economics from Eberhardt Karls University Tübingen and a doctorate in Finance from Goethe University Frankfurt. Prior to coming to NHH, he spent a year as a post-doc at the London School of Economics from 2005-2006. His research focuses on Private Equity, Venture Capital, Fixed Income, Financial Contracting and Compensation in the Finance Industry.
Selected publications
| Author(s) | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|
| Bienz, Carsten Gero; Hirsch, Julia | The Dynamics of Venture Capital Contracts | Review of Finance Volume 16 (1); page 157 - 195; 2012 |
| Bienz, Carsten; Walz, Uwe | Venture Capital Exit Rights | Journal of Economics and Management Strategy Volume 19 (4); page 1071 - 1116; 2010 |
| Bienz, Carsten Gero; Thorburn, Karin S.; Walz, Uwe | Fund ownership, wealth, and risk-taking: Evidence on private equity managers | Journal of Financial Intermediation Volume 54 (0 pages); 2023 |
| Albuquerque de Sousa, Jose A.; Bersagel, Annie; Bienz, Carsten Gero; Mjøs, Aksel; Storaker, Marte Siri; Juillard Thompsen, Isabelle | Bærekraft til hvilken pris? | Praktisk økonomi & finans Volume 37 (2); page 129 - 139; 2021 |
| Bienz, Carsten Gero; Knudsen, Eirik Sjåholm; Pohl, Walter; Belik, Ivan | Artificial Intelligence and Data Regulations. Can stricter privacy laws provide a lifeline for European companies? | Magma - Tidsskrift for økonomi og ledelse (8); page 55 - 62; 2019 |
| Bienz, Carsten Gero; Gerasimova, Nataliya; Pohl, Walter | Disintermediated Finance | Magma - Tidsskrift for økonomi og ledelse (8); page 71 - 79; 2019 |
AUTHOR PAGES
TEACHING
Carsten Bienz teaches the following courses at the Masters level:
- Private Equity and Venture Capital
- Corporate Finance
Dissemination
Investing in sustainability – but what are the effects?
Investors around the world are developing environmentally friendly solutions. The growth of green finance is accelerating at record speed. ‘They are now asking themselves how they can make the effects of their investments visible,’ says NHH researcher Carsten Bienz.
Investors take less risk when their own money is on the line
The more of a manager's wealth is tied to her fund, the less risk she takes and the smaller is each individual investment, according to a NHH study picked up by the «Institutional Investor», New York Times DealBook and other media.
PE sector in unique position to combat climate change
‘The finance sector cannot stay indifferent to the climate changes. PE companies must take a more active role in the development of an environmentally friendly planet,’ says financial researcher Carsten Bienz.
Defense: Corporate Finance
On Monday 20 August 2018 Varun Verma will hold a trial lecture on a prescribed topic and defend his thesis for the PhD degree at NHH.
Is the crowd wise?
The wisdom of the crowd in crowdfunding markets helps improve the decision making of the individuals, according to several studies. But is the crowd (really) wise?
Crowdfunding taking off
With the help of fan donations, game developer Chris Roberts has raised USD 183 mill to develop the popular game Wing Commander. Now, more and more people in Norway are jumping onto the crowdfunding wave.
Crowdfunding. Bitcoin. Machine learning
– The impact of informational technology is expected to radically restructure how finance is practiced, Walter Pohl says. On Friday 8 June NHH is hosting the 2018 Bergen FinTech Conference.
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