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Goethe Business School (GBS) is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Christian Jansen, MBA, as Managing Director as of August 1, 2013. Christian Jansen said: "I am looking forward to continue working with the team in my new position to further enhance the role of GBS as one of the leading executive education institutions in Germany". Prof. Dr. Lars Schweizer, GBS Dean since 2009, will...[more]

The Doctorate/PhD Program Law and Economics of Money and Finance (LEMF) is now cooperating with Columbia Law School and Oxford Law School   The Global Law in Finance Network (GLawFiN) is now officially launched. GLawFiN is a multi-site, interdisciplinary project that seeks to deepen the understanding of the role of law in finance. The three sites of the project currently are Goethe...[more]

Wissenschaftler der Goethe-Universität haben gemeinsam mit den Experten der Bonpago GmbH eine Studie vorgelegt, die der öffentlichen Verwaltung in Deutschland Wege aufzeigt für eine Umstellung auf den elektronischen Austausch von Rechnungen. Die Studie unter Leitung von Wolfgang König, Professor für BWL, insbesondere Wirtschaftsinformatik und Informationsmanagement sowie Geschäftsführender...[more]

As of August 2013, three new junior professors join the SAFE faculty: Sascha Baghestanian, Junior Professor for Microeconomics and Experimental Economics in the SAFE research area "Corporate Governance", Martin R. Goetz, Junior Professor for Regulation and Stability of Financial Institutions in the respective SAFE research area, and Nathanael Vellekoop, Junior Professor for Household Finance,...[more]

Elke König, President of the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin), gave a lecture on the implementation of private liability in the resolution of financial institutions and the future role of banking supervision in Europe on 16 July. In particular, she discussed how to implement new bail-in instruments in the process of bank restructuring. Her lecture was part of the SAFE Policy Center...[more]

Mr. Jedrzej Mazur, Master Student at the Chair of e-Finance, Prof. Dr. Peter Gomber, was awarded the Paris-Europlace Award in the context of the 29. International Competition of Master's Degree Theses on Economics and Finance. In his thesis „Economic Analysis of Stock Exchange consolidation" Mr. Mazur investigated the micro and macro effects of exchange consolidation on long term value creation...[more]

On the occasion of Goethe University's centennial, Edmond de Rothschild Group and Metzler Bank in cooperation with the Institut für bankhistorische Forschung, Frankfurt, donate a visiting professorship on "Financial History" to the House of Finance/Center or Excellence SAFE at Goethe University. This professorship is the first of its kind at an economics faculty of a German university. In the...[more]