Kenza Benhima
Professor at HEC-Lausanne (University of Lausanne)
Co-chair of the Department of Economics
Member of the SNF Evaluation Panel for Individual Research Projects
CEPR Fellow
Associate editor at the European Economic Review
Research interests: International finance, Macro Finance, Imperfect Information
Contacts
E-mail: kenza.benhima[at]unil.ch
Office: +41-021.692.36.92
Work Address:
Université de Lausanne
Quartier UNIL-Dorigny
Bâtiment Internef
1015 Lausanne
Research
Work in progress
Trade Credit and Firms' Financial Vulnerability
with Omar Chafik, Sophie Osotimehin, Abdessamad Saidi and Wenxia Tang
The Effect of Public Debt on the Convenience Yield: Evidence from Swiss Treasury Auctions
with Maxime Phillot
Strategic Managers with Noisy Beliefs: Evidence from Carbon Pricing
with Andreas Fuster, Sébastien Houde and Heiner Mikosch
Completed papers
with Elio Bolliger and Margaret Davenport
Philippe Bacchetta, Kenza Benhima, Brendan Berthold
Revise and resubmit Review of Economic Studies
Kenza Benhima, Omar Chafik, Min Fang, Wenxia Tang
Revise and resubmit JPE: Macroeconomics
Publications
Forthcoming. Journal of International Economics
Forthcoming Review of Economics and Statistics
2026. The Economic Journal, 136(675), 940–964.
Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics, 158, Article 16, 2022.
Journal of Monetary Economics, 117, January 2021, 278–295.
Journal of Monetary Economics, 116, December 2020, 70–87.
The Economic Journal, 130(628), May 2020, 956–975.
Journal of Monetary Economics, 107, November 2019, 32–47.
American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 11(3), July 2019, 30–66.
Journal of the European Economic Association, 13(6), 1101–1135.
IMF Economic Review, 62, 48–76.
American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 5(4), 68–106.
This paper received the Young Economist Award 2012 from the Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics.
Journal of International Economics, 89(2), 331–346.
American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 5(3), 229–262.
Journal of International Money and Finance, 32, 324–340.
Open Economies Review, 2011.
Déséquilibres Globaux et Croissance des Pays Emergents dans une Economie Mondiale
La Revue Économique, 2009.
La Lettre du CEPII, No. 262, 2006.
Book chapter
In Global Liquidity, Spillovers to Emerging Markets and Policy Responses, edited by Jaume Ventura, Diego Saravia and Claudio Raddatz. Central Bank of Chile.
Other writing
E4S Brief, 2023.
Teaching
- The Identification of Structural Shocks (PhD in Economics - HEC), with Jean-Paul Renne. Syllabus 2025. Online handbook.
- Economie Politique II (Bachelor in Economics - HEC)
- Macro policy (MSc in Economics - HEC, 5.1)
- Macroeconomics (MSc in Economics - HEC, 4.1)
- Business cycles (MSc in Economics - HEC, 4.2)
Conferences
18th T2M conference
February 2014, Lausanne, Switzerland. Program
Workshop on New Advances on Information Frictions in Business Cycles
26–27 June 2017, Villars-sur-Ollon, Switzerland. Program
Workshop on Small Business, Development and Growth
3–4 October 2022, Rabat, Morocco. Program
CEPR International Macro and Finance Annual Meeting
16–17 October 2025, Lausanne, Switzerland. Program
Media
"Le but est de prospérer à l'intérieur des limites planétaires" — L'Entreprise Romande, July 2025
"On a les clés pour affronter les défis planétaires" — Uniscope, November 2024
La décroissance : calamité ou opportunité ? — Twist, RTS, March 2025
Climat, ralentir ou périr ? Le débat autour de la décroissance bat son plein — Géopolitis, RTS, December 2023
Comment l’asymétrie de l’information fait circuler les capitaux — Allez Savoir!, February 2022
La Fin de l'Ilot Suisse des Taux d'Intérêt ? — La Vie Economique, July 2021
La Taxe Carbone est-elle Juste ? — Le Temps, June 2021
Attention aux pièges du populisme et du repli sur soi — L'AGEFI, June 2021
Peut-on prévoir l'avenir ? — Les Mystères de l'Unil, 2021