Deborah Schanz

Deborah Schanz , b. Knirsch (* 1975 ), is a professor of business administration and has been a director of the Institute for Business Taxation at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich since 2011 .

Life

Schanz studied in Hamburg , Newcastle (UK) and Tübingen . She received her doctorate from the University of Tübingen in 2004 (doctoral supervisor Franz W. Wagner) and her habilitation in Graz in 2007. She previously gained practical experience as a management consultant at Deloitte in Stuttgart . As one of the youngest German business administration professors, Deborah Schanz was appointed to the WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management in 2007 . There she was professor for business taxation until 2011. Since 2011 she has been a professor at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , where she is head of the Institute for Business Taxation.

Teaching

Schanz is active in the bachelor, master and doctoral programs of the LMU, in the European Master in Management and in the Master of Law and Business at the Bucerius Law School . For her teaching, she received the “Best Teacher Award” in 2009 for the “Taxes and Business Strategy” event in the WHU MBA program.

Research priorities

Schanz conducts research in the field of national and international taxation of companies. Your areas of interest include

• Tax compliance, tax ratios, corporate tax planning and the strategic alignment of corporate tax departments;
• the comparison of tax systems and their complexity, etc. a. the development of the “Tax Attractiveness Index”, which measures the tax attractiveness of currently 100 countries and enables comparisons;
• the influence of taxes on investment and financing decisions, v. a. the financing of companies with equity and debt capital and hybrid financial instruments;
• the determination of the taxable profit;
• the further development of (international) tax law, especially under the influence of base erosion profit shifting (BEPS) and digitization.

Deborah Schanz publishes in refereed journals (including the Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung, Contemporary Accounting Research, European Accounting Review, Review of Managerial Science) and in practical journals (including Betriebs-Beratung , Die Unternehmenssteuererung, German Tax Law ). She has received various research awards for her publications, including a. 2006 the monograph prize of the Association of University Lecturers for Business Administration

engagement

Schanz is involved in numerous university and non-university areas. She is u. a. Member of the tax working group of the Schmalenbach-Gesellschaft für Betriebswirtschaft eV, of the Taxation Commission in the Association of University Lecturers for Business Administration and the Quantitative Taxation Working Group (arqus) eV, of the Presidium of the German Association for International Tax Law in the International Financial Association, Section Bavaria as well as member of the examination board for the auditor exam.

Web links

• curriculum vitae
• Institute for Business Taxation

Individual evidence

1. ^ Tax Attractiveness Index . Retrieved March 7, 2017.