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For his paper „Building Trust“, Santanu Kundu received the GESS Science Speed Dating Award from the Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences in Mannheim.

For his paper „A Name That Rings a Bell: Spillover Effects in Stocks with Similar Company Names“, Pavel Lesnevski received the best doctoral paper award at the PhD Workshop of the 25th Annual Meeting of the German Finance Association held in Trier in September 20–22, 2018.

For her paper „The limits to information processing: Distracted analysts and their earnings forecasts“ Anja Kunzmann received the best paper award at the 25th Annual Global Finance Conference held in Paris from July 3–5, 2018.

The papers “The impact of Role Models on Women’s Self Selection in Competitive Environments” (Kristina Mercedes Meier, Alexandra Niessen-Ruenzi, and Stefan Ruenzi) and “M&A(advertising)” (Alexander Hillert, Anja Kunzmann, and Stefan Ruenzi) have been accepted for presentation at the Annual Meeting ...

The paper “The impact of Role Models on Women’s Self Selection in Competitive Environments” (Kristina Mercedes Meier, Alexandra Niessen-Ruenzi, and Stefan Ruenzi) has been accepted for presentation at the Annual Meeting of the European Finance Association 2018 in Warsaw.

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 ...