2023 Meetings
FiRe research seminar (April 3, 2023, 16.00-17.30)
The coordinates for the seminar are:
Speaker: Andreas Pfingsten (Münster University)
Title: Capital relief trades after the financial crisis: used to improve capital ratios?
Time: April 3, 2023
Venue: SR 15.26, ReSoWi-Center, Universitaetsstrasse 15/G2, 8010 Graz
Andreas Pfingsten is a renowned banking expert and currently holds the Chair of Banking at the University of Münster, where he is also the Director of the Institute of Banking. With a focus on credit business, regulation of banks, risk management, and bank calculation, Andreas Pfingsten has authored several publications in reputed journals, including the Journal of Financial Intermediation and the Journal of Banking & Finance. He has also held visiting positions at several international universities, including Temple University in Philadelphia and the University of Calgary in Canada.
FiRe research seminar (April 17, 2023, 16.00-17.30)
The coordinates for the seminar are:
Speaker: Christine Laudenbach (Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE)
Title: Gender Differences in Financial Advice.
Time: April 17, 2023
Access: https://unigraz.webex.com/unigraz/j.php?MTID=mcb7ad96fff1a191c4220ff81e54ec7b8
Paper: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2572961
Christine Laudenbach is an academic specializing in finance, currently holding the position of professor for Household Finance at the Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE. She previously served as a professor of Finance at the University of Bonn, after completing her postdoctoral research at Goethe University in Frankfurt and the University of Mannheim, where she earned her Ph.D. in 2012. Laudenbach's academic endeavors have also taken her to esteemed institutions such as the University of Washington in Seattle and Columbia University in New York.
Her research is focused on improving financial decision-making among private households, through financial education, counseling, and innovative self-help tools. Her work has been published in prestigious international academic journals, including the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, and Management Science.
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FiRe research seminar (May 8, 2023, 16.00-17.30)
The coordinates for the seminar are:
Speaker: Steffen Meyer (Aarhus University)
Title: To be announced.
Time: May 8, 2023
Venue: SR 15.25, ReSoWi-Center, Universitaetsstrasse 15/F2, 8010 Graz
FiRe Lecture (June 27, 2023, 17:30-19:00)
The coordinates for the seminar are:
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Martin Weber
Title: To be announced.
Time: June 27, 2023, 17:30-19:00
Venue:
Martin Weber is a Senior Professor of Banking and Finance at the Business School of the University of Mannheim. Before joining the University of Mannheim, he worked as a Professor at the University of Cologne and the University of Kiel. He is a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and is on the board of the Schmalenbach Society for Business Administration and on the scientific board of the Society for Experimental Finance. His research covers the areas of experimental economics, decision theory, behavioral and household finance.
Martin Weber has published in leading finance and economics journals such as the Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, Review of Finance, Management Science and the Journal of Political Economy. He is one of the authors of “Bankbetriebslehre” by Hartmann-Wendels, Pfingsten and Weber and the author of "Genial einfach investieren". In 2008, Martin Weber also launched the investment fund ARERO with the aim of offering a broadly diversified portfolio in equities, bonds and commodities for long-term investment.
Prof. Weber obtained his master’s degree, doctoral degree and habilitation at the University of Aachen. He spent three years as a visiting professor at UCLA, the Wharton School, Stanford University and the Fuqua School of Business and Duke University. From 2004 to 2006, he served as Dean of the Faculty of Business Administration at the University of Mannheim. In June 2007, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Münster.
This Event is sponsored by Raiffeisen-Landesbank Steiermark AG
FiRe Research Day (June 28, 2023, 9:00-15:00)
The coordinates for the seminar are:
Time: June 15, 2023, 9:00-15:00,
Venue: SR 15.25, ReSoWi-Center, Universitaetsstrasse 15/F2, 8010 Graz
The program is to be announced.
Past events
FiRe research seminar (January 9, 2023, 16.00-17.30)
The coordinates for the seminar are:
Speaker: Rients Galema (Utrecht University)
Title: Carbon Home Bias of European Investors
Time: January 9, 2023, 16.00-17.30
Access: https://unigraz.webex.com/unigraz/j.php?MTID=m2c5f5a50c706c3d40275b89ad48be18a
Paper: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3632723
