Research fields

Contractual savings for housing (CSH) has a long tradition, the first building society was found in England in the 18^th century. Especially in the German speaking countries this financial product is very popular. Between 30 and 60% of the financing volume for housing is distributed by building societies and CSH banks in these countries...

Further information can be found here.

The article “Bitcoin: A peer-to-peer electronic cash system” that was published 2009 under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakomto and whose author is unknown to this day was the starting point for the development and distribution of the Distributed Ledger Technology, widely known as blockchain. “Blockchains” can be described as “unforgeable, averaged Data structures, in which transactions can be protocoled in chronological order and displayed comprehensibly and without central authority (BaFin, 2017)...

Further information can be found here. 

Banks perform similar functions all over the world. These include lot size transformation, term transformation, and risk transformation as well as other financial intermediation tasks. Nevertheless, the banking systems around the world are very different...

Sponsored by the "Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung für die Freiheit"  with funds from the "Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung" 

Further information can be found here. 

• Market Microstructure
• Retail Investor Behavior
• Information production in financial relations
• Loan contracts
• Bank regulation
• Capital requirements
  
• Information Sharing
  
• Banking and the State
• Savings banks and co-operative banks
• Market Liquidity
• Principal Agency Conflict in Entrepreneurial Finance
• Organizational Structure (Simulation)
• Venture Capital