News

Our former chair member, Michael Ungeheuer, got awarded the Karin-Islinger Award for his dissertation “Essays on Investor Behavior and Financial Markets”. Congratulations!

The event took place on May 25, 2018, in O151. Interested students can find the presentation slides here.

In todays newspaper, the Boston Globe features a short story on the recently published paper “Sex Matters – Gender Bias in the Mutual Industry” by Alexandra Niessen-Ruenzi and Stefan Ruenzi. You can find the article here and the paper, which is forthcoming in Management Science – can be found here.

One of the leading German daily newspapers, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) features an article on our recent research results. Please find the article here.

The German daily business newspaper Handels­blatt and news website Spiegel Online report on a new survey study by Alexandra Niessen-Ruenzi and Stefan Ruenzi that analyzes the determinants of career choices of female and male business students. Download a summary of the study results here. We ...

The paper “Financial Advice and Bank Profits” by Stefan Ruenzi (with Daniel Hoechle, Nic Schaub, and Markus Schmid) has been accepted for publication by the Review of Financial Studies.

The paper “Momentum and Crash Sensitivity” by Stefan Ruenzi and Florian Weigert has been accepted for publication by Economics Letters.

The paper „Tail Risk in Hedge Funds: A Unique View from Portfolio Holdings“ by Vikas Agarwal, Stefan Ruenzi, and Florian Weigert has now been published in the Journal of Financial Economics in Vol. 125, Issue 3, p. 610–636.

Stefan Ruenzi received the research prize of the German alternative investments foundation (Bundes­verband Alternative Investments) for his paper “Tail Risk in Hedge Funds” (joint with Vikas Agarwal and Florian Weigert).

The paper “Sex Matters – Gender Bias in the Mutual Fund Industry” by Alexandra Niessen-Ruenzi and Stefan Ruenzi has been accepted for publication by Management Science.