Frederik Kohl

Frederik Kohl is a Research Assistant at the Chair of Business Administration, Accounting and Auditing at the University of Mannheim. He holds a Bachelor in Business Administration and Master in Management (specializing in Accounting and Finance) from Mannheim, with additional graduate studies at McGill University, Columbia University, and the University of Cambridge where he completed a Research Master in Finance with distinction as a Cambridge Trust scholar.

His research explores interdisciplinary connections between Accounting, Finance, and Law, with focus areas including:

• Regulatory frameworks in capital markets
• Corporate financial misconduct mechanisms
• Patterns in strategic insider trading
• Disclosure compliance systems

He received the Ernst & Young foundation prize for his master's thesis analyzing SEC enforcement resource impacts on insider trading behaviors. His current work develops analytical frameworks for market surveillance and financial fraud detection.