Professor Martin Weber New Research Associate at ZEW

The Research Department "International Finance and Financial Management" at the Mannheim Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) welcomes a new Research Associate: Professor Martin Weber. Professor Weber holds the Chair of Business Administration and Finance, especially Banking, at the University of Mannheim. At ZEW, he will primarily address research related to investment, investors, and regulation. In addition to banking management, his research also focuses on behavioural economics.

Martin Weber has been professor of business administration at the University of Mannheim since 1993. His earlier positions include professorships at the Universities of Kiel and Cologne. Weber obtained his doctoral degree at RWTH Aachen in 1981, where he studied mathematics and mathematical economics. He completed his habilitation thesis at RWTH in 1988. In June 2007, he was awarded an honorary doctoral degree from the University of Münster.

Martin Weber has also gained experience on the international scientific stage. He completed research stays as a visiting lecturer at Stanford University, Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of California, Los Angeles, in the United States. He publishes frequently in renowned academic journals, including “Review of Financial Studies“, “Management Science”, and “Review of Finance”.

Beyond his scientific activities, Professor Weber was the director (1997-2002) and deputy director (2003-2008) of the Collaborative Research Centre 504, “Rationality Concepts, Decision Behaviour and Economic Modelling”, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Martin Weber ranks third in the “lifetime achievement” category of the current "Handelsblatt" business administration ranking.

“We are proud and very happy that Martin Weber, one of the leading scholars in his area, collaborates with ZEW researchers. Cooperation between the Centre for European Economic Research and the University of Mannheim will grow even stronger thanks to Professor Weber's commitment,” says ZEW Director Thomas Kohl. “His activities at our institute will immensely benefit the "International Finance" Research Department.”

For further information please contact

Professor Martin Weber, Phone +49 (0)621 181-1532, E-mail weber@bank.bwl.uni-mannheim.de