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Research


Currently the main research focus of the department of finance is empirical research on capital markets. We are primarily interested in asset management topics such as behaviour of private as well as institutional investors, trading strategies and performance of investment funds. A further emphasis of our research lies within risk management and especially within the analysis of liquidity of capital markets.

Closer insights to our current and past research activities are provided by our working papers as well as our publications, some of which having been released in the best international journals:

Publications in top journals

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  • Fang, J.; Kempf, A.; Trapp, M.
    Fund Manager Allocation
    in: Journal of Financial Economics, Vol. 111 (2014), pp.661-674.
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