Leadership of the
Graduate School of Economics, Finance, and Management
Coordinator
Professor Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln, Ph.D.
Dean
Professor Michael Binder, Ph.D.
Deputy Deans
Program Directors
- Professor Dr. Michael Kosfeld
- Professor Thomas Laubach, Ph.D.
- Professor Dr. Thomas Otter
- Professor Dr. Christian Schlag
- Professor. Dr. Uwe Walz
Director of Academic Records
Director of Student Services
Director of Finance
Coordinator
Professor Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln, Ph.D., Professor of Economics at Goethe University Frankfurt (Chair for Macroeconomics and Development), is Coordinator of the Graduate School of Economics, Finance, and Management. Fuchs-Schündeln received her Ph.D. in economics from Yale University in 2004. Prior to joining the faculty of Goethe University Frankfurt in 2009 (Chair for Macroeconomics and Development), she was a faculty member at Harvard University. She is also an NBER Faculty Research Fellow, a CESifo Research Network Affiliate, and a Co-Editor of the Economics of Transition. Her current research focuses on the analysis of household saving and labor supply behavior, labor market integration, and the endogeneity of economic preferences.
Dean
Professor Michael Binder, Ph.D., Professor of Economics at Goethe University Frankfurt (Chair for International Macroeconomics and Macroeconometrics), is Dean of the Graduate School of Economics, Finance, and Management. Binder did his undergraduate coursework in economics, business administration and law at the University of Kiel, and received a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1995. Upon completion of his Ph.D. he was a faculty member at the University of Maryland until 2003. Binder has been a Fulbright scholar, a Marie Curie research fellow, a scholar of the German National Scholarship Foundation, and has been the recipient of numerous teaching and advising awards. He has published on a variety of topics in macroeconomics and applied econometrics, and is/was an Associate Editor of the Journal of Applied Econometrics, the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, and Empirical Economics. Binder has held visiting appointments inter alia at the University of Cambridge, the University of Munich, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the Bank of Spain. Binder's current research in part examines the implications of financial and trade globalization for business cycle dynamics, output growth and exchange rate dynamics. This research involves the development of new econometric methods for macroeconomic panels, as well as the assembly of new cross-country panel data sets.
Deputy Deans
Professor Dr. Isabel Schnabel, Professor of Economics at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Chair for Financial Economics), is Deputy Dean of the Graduate School of Economics, Finance, and Management. Schnabel did her Bachelor and Master level coursework at the universities of Mannheim, California-Berkeley and Paris. She received her doctorate in economics on »Macroeconomic Risks and Financial Crises – A Historical Perspective« from the University of Mannheim in 2003. Upon completion of her doctorate she was Assistant Professor at the University of Mannheim, Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University, and Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods in Bonn, before joining Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in 2007. Schnabel currently is a Research Affiliate of the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods and of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). Her current research is on international macroeconomics and finance (financial crises, lender of last resort, capital flows), on banking (banking stability and regulation, systemic risk), on economic history (financial institutions), as well as on applied microeconometrics.
Director, Ph.D. Program in Economics and MSQ Program in Quantitative Economics
Professor Thomas Laubach, Ph.D., Professor of Economics at Goethe University Frankfurt (Chair for Macroeconomics), is Director of the Ph.D. Program in Economics and the MSQ Program in Quantitative Economics. Laubach received his Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University in 1997. Prior to joining the faculty of Goethe University Frankfurt in 2008, he worked as an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City , and as an economist and senior economist, at the Federal Reserve Board. From 2003 to 2005, he was on secondment to the OECD's Economics Department. He currently also is a Research Professor at the Deutsche Bundesbank, and a Research Visitor at the European Central Bank. His current research focuses on macroeconomic effects of fiscal policies as well as the implications of alternative hypotheses about expectations formation in macroeconomics and finance.
Director, Ph.D. Program in Finance and MSQ Program in Quantitative Finance
Professor Dr. Christian Schlag, Professor of Finance at Goethe University Frankfurt (Chair for Derivatives and Financial Engineering), is Director of the Ph.D. Program in Finance and the MSQ Program in Quantitative Finance. Schlag received his doctorate in business administration from the University of Karlsruhe in 1994. Prior to joining the faculty of Goethe University Frankfurt in 1997, he held a position as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Karlsruhe. He has held visiting appointments at Vanderbilt University and at the University of Melbourne. His current research focuses on asset pricing and asset allocation in continuous-time models and on the pricing and hedging of derivative securities.
Director, Ph.D. Program in Law and Economics and MSQ Program in Quantitative Economics and Law
Professor Dr. Uwe Walz, Professor of Economics at Goethe University Frankfurt (Chair for Industrial Organization), is Director of the Ph.D. Program in Law and Economics and the MSQ Program in Quantitative Economics and Law. Walz obtained his doctorate from the University of Tübingen in 1992. After having been a visiting research fellow to the London School of Economics (1992 to 1993) and the University of California at Berkeley (1994 to 1995), he completed his habilitation at the University of Mannheim in 1995. Thereafter he joined the University of Bochum (1995 to 1997) as Associate Professor and the University of Tübingen (1997 to 2000) as Professor. In 2003, he became Program Director of the Center for Financial Studies (CFS). Since 2004 he also is a Research Professor at the Center for European Economic Research (ZEW). His main current research focuses on venture capital, entrepreneurial finance, and contract theory as well as on the economics of network industries.
Director, Ph.D. Program in Management and MSQ Program in Quantitative Management
Professor Dr. Michael Kosfeld, Professor of Business Administration at Goethe University Frankfurt (Chair for Organization and Management), is Director of the Ph.D. Program in Management and the MSQ Program in Quantitative Management. Kosfeld graduated in mathematics from the University of Bonn in 1995, and received his Ph.D. in economics at Tilburg University in 1999. Before joining Goethe University Frankfurt, he was a faculty member at the Institute for Empirical Research at the University of Zurich. His primary area of research is behavioral and organizational economics, with particular interest in the theoretical and experimental analysis of social interaction, boundedly rational decision-making, and the psychology of incentives.
Director, Ph.D. Program in Marketing and MSQ Program in Quantitative Marketing
Professor Dr. Thomas Otter, Professor of Business Administration at Goethe University Frankfurt (Chair for Marketing), is Director of the Ph.D. Program in Marketing and the MSQ Program in Quantitative Marketing. Otter received his doctorate in business administration in 2001 from WU Wien. Prior to joining the faculty of Goethe University Frankfurt (Chair for Marketing) in 2007, he was a faculty member at the University of California, Riverside and at Ohio State University. His research focuses on Bayesian modeling with applications to marketing. He uses Bayesian statistics and MCMC techniques to develop and refine quantitative marketing models by incorporating psychological and economic theory.
Director of Academic Records
Jan Schneider, Mag. iur., joined the Graduate School of Economics, Finance, and Management in 2011. He holds a Magister iuris degree from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and passed the German bar examination in 2008. Prior to joining the Graduate School of Economics, Finance, and Management, he was a Lecturer for Law at the University of Ibague, Colombia, and as a trainee solicitor inter alia worked in Buenos Aires, Hamburg and Washington, DC.
Director of Student Services
Olga Chandra, M.A., joined Goethe University Frankfurt in 2007, as coordinator of the MSQE and Ph.D. in Economics Programs. She holds a Master's degree in International Affairs from the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh. Chandra served as Lecturer at Phillips University Marburg, and – before moving to Germany – she worked more than 13 years in the fields of international operations, marketing, and communications with AT&T Telecommunications in the United States. She speaks Hindi, Russian, Bengali, German, and English.
Director of Finance
Sari Jeanette Uk, MBA, joined Goethe University Frankfurt in 2010, to assume responsibility for finance at the Graduate School of Economics, Finance, and Management, and for administrative affairs at the Chair for International Macroeconomics & Macroeconometrics. She holds a Diploma in Business Administration from the University of Saarbruecken and an MBA degree from the Edinburgh Business School. Prior to her current position, she worked for more than ten years in corporate and investment banking, specializing in the field of origination, as well as in finance and accounting at large with various international financial firms, including Barclays Capital, American Express and ANZ Banking Group.