Departamento: Financial Economics and Accounting

Centro académico: Faculty of Economics and Business

Area: Financial Economics and Accounting

Research group: Financial Economics and Accounting

Email: benitobl@um.es

Personal web: https://webs.um.es/benitobl/miwiki/doku.php?id=inicio

Doctor by the Universidad de Murcia with the thesis La contabilidad pública en España. Especial referencia al subsector administración general del Estado 1994. Supervised by Dr. Pedro Luengo Mulet.

I have a degree ("with Honours") and a PhD in Economics and Business Studies ("with Honours") from the University of Murcia, and I am currently a Full Professor of Accounting and Finance at the University of Murcia. I have published several books and book chapters, both individually and collaboratively, and more than 120 articles in refereed journals. I have also organised and participated in numerous national and international academic conferences and meetings. I have been the Principal Researcher of competitive projects. I have carried out numerous contracts with companies and public institutions. I am a member of the editorial board of national and international scientific journals. I have been Director of the Department of Accounting and Finance and Academic Director of the Faculty of Tourism at the University of Murcia. I direct the Master in Risk Management in Organisations at the University of Murcia. I am a reviewer for the Andalusian Agency for Quality Assessment and University Accreditation, the National Agency for Evaluation and Foresight (ANEP) (now ANECA), the Israel Science Foundation, the Croatian Science Foundation (Croatia), the National Science Centre (Poland), the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) (Switzerland) and the Agenzia Nazionale per la Valutazione del Sistema Universitario e della Ricerca (ANVUR) (Italy). I have peer-reviewed articles in over 100 national and international journals, most indexed in Journal Citation Report (JCR). My main research interests are public sector accounting, transparency in public institutions, the study of corruption, the efficiency of public service delivery, the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals, business valuation and the analysis of financial information of companies and public administrations. I am the coordinator of the Knowledge Transfer Group "Accounting and Auditing of the Public Sector" at the University of Murcia (https://www.um.es/web/grupos-transferencia/-/contabilidad-y-auditor%C3%ADa-del-sector-p%C3%BAblico/1.3?redirect=%2Fweb%2Fgrupos-transferencia).