2005

Distinguished Speaker at the Mergers and Acquisitions conference, Exeter (UK)

2005

Keynote speaker for the ERIM Invitational Conference "Frontiers in Research in Management" (and honorary doctorate awarded to R. Thaler), Erasmus University, Rotterdam (NL)

2005

Distinguished Speaker at the European Financial Management meeting, Milan (Italy), Special Session on Behavioral Corporate Finance

2005

Commendation for Exceptional Nominations for the Distinguished Teaching Award, Stanford GSB

2004

Research Grant, Center for Electronic Commerce and Business (Stanford GSB)

2002

Research Grant, Russell Sage Foundation, Small Grants Program in Behavioral Economics

2002

Selected Speaker, Review of Economic Studies Tour

2001

2001

Prize of the President of the Italian Republic for Law Ph.D. Thesis Societas publicanorum. (Best dissertations in Economics and Law at the University of Bonn.)

2000-2001

George S. Dively Award for Outstanding Pre-Dissertation Research, Harvard

1999-2000

Dillon Fellow, Harvard University

1998-2002

Doctoral Fellow Harvard University/HBS

1998-2001

Fellowship of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

1998-2000

McCloy Academic Scholar (sponsored by Harvard University and VW Foundation)

1998

Scholarship by British Council and German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes) for doctoral studies in law and economics at Oxford University

1991-2001

Scholarship German National Academic Foundation

1991

Winner of Latin and Ancient Greek competition Certamen Carolinum (Germany)

Academic Affiliations and Positions

2005- 

Faculty Research Fellow, IZA

2004- 

Faculty Research Fellow, NBER (Labor Studies)

9/2005-5/2006 

2/2005-3/2005 

1/2005-2/2005 

7/2002-6/2006 

2000

Visiting Scholar, Max Planck Insitute "Law of Common Goods," Bonn (GER)

1999-2000

Research Assistant, Harvard University, Economics Department

1998

Visiting Scholar, Oxford Univeristy

1994-1996

Research Assistant, University of Bonn, Roman Law Institute (worked on bilingual (Latin-German) edition of the Corpus iuris civilis), Finance Institute, and Tax Law Institute.

Editorial Responsibilities and Refereeing

Associate Editor, Journal of Financial Intermediation, 2005-present
Associate Editor, Economic Journal, 2005-present

Referee Academy of Management Review, American Economic Review, Econometrica, Economic Journal, Experimental Economics, Financial Management Review, Games and Economic Behavior, German Economic Review, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Economic Literature, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Journal of Finance, Journal of Industrial Economics, Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Management Science, RAND Journal of Economics, Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economics and Statistics, Review of Financial Studies

Reviewer for National Science Foundation

Organization of Conferences and Sessions, Program Committees

Conference co-organizer, Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics (SITE):
- "Psychology and Economics 6.0", co-organizer, August 2006
- "Psychology and Economics 5.0", co-organizer, August 2005
- "Psychology and Economics 4.0", co-organizer, August 2004
- "Psychology and Economics 3.0", co-organizer, August 2003

Session organizer and chair, American Economic Association Annual Meeting:
- Session "The Economics of Paying Too Much", organizer, January 2006
- Session "The Impact of the Media", organizer, January 2005
- Session "Hot and Cold - The Impact of Emotional States on Decision-Making", organizer, January 2004

Program Committee, Financial Management Association, Orlando, FL, 2007

Program Committee, American Finance Association, Chicago, IL, 2007

Program Committee, Western Finance Association, Keystone, Colorado, 2006

Program Committee, Banking, Corporate Finance, and Intermediation (2006 Shanghai Conference of the Financial Intermediation Research Society)

Session organizer, Western Finance Association, Portland, 2005
- Session "Mergers and Acquisitions"

Program Committee, European Finance Association (2005 Moscow meeting)

Invited and Conference Presentations

NBER Labor Studies Meeting, Cambridge

NBER Behavioral Finance Meeting, Chicago

Dartmouth College (Economics)
Dartmouth College (Finance)
Yale University (Economics)
Yale University (Finance)

Formation and Evolution of Institutions conference, Brown University

Summer Institute on Economics and Psychology, Frauenwoerth, Germany
University of Munich, Germany
European Symposium on Economics and Psychology (CEPR/ENABLE), Frauenwoerth, Germany
7th Russell Sage Summer Institute for Behavioral Economics, Trento, Italy

NBER Summer Institute, Industrial Organization

Stanford Institute in Theoretical Economics (SITE), Psychology & Economics Segment

New York University (Stern, Economics)

UC Berkeley (Economics)

American Finance Association, Philadelphia
American Economics Association, Philadelphia
Columbia University (Economics)
Symposium "People and Money: The Psychology of Financial Decision-Making",
     Chicago

Princeton University (Economics)

Princeton University (Finance)

New York University (Law & Finance)

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Finance)

University of Chicago (Finance)

University of Chicago (Economics)

Cornell University (Economics)

Cornell University (Finance)

Stanford University (Accounting)

University of Maryland, College Park (Economics)

NBER Labor Studies Meeting, Cambridge

Texas Finance Festival, San Antonio, Texas

Joint Berkeley-Stanford Finance Seminar

Behavioral Industrial Organization conference, Berlin

European University Institute, Florence (Italy)

European Financial Management meeting, Milan (Italy)

Universität Bonn (Economics)

NBER Summer Institute, Corporate Governance

Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, Bergen (Norway)

European Summer Symposium in Labour Economics, Ammersee (Germany)

Harvard University (Economics)

Carnegie Mellon University

Berkeley University (Economics)

Financial Management Association meeting, Chicago

ERIM Invitational Conference 'Frontiers in Research in Management',

      RSM Erasmus University, Rotterdam (NL)

2nd Annual Olin Corporate Governance conference, Washington University

NBER Behavioral Finance Conference (discussant)

Financial Economics and Accounting conference, UNC Chapel Hill

Mergers and Acquisitions conference, Exeter (UK)

American Finance Association (presentation & discussant), San Diego
American Economics Association (presentation & discussant), San Diego
Econometric Society (discussant), San Diego
Simon Fraser University, Vancouver
University of British Columbia
NBER Industrial Organization Program Meeting, Stanford
Media and Economic Performance Workshop, Stanford
Harvard University (Economics)
Joint Harvard & MIT Workshop Organizational Economics
NBER Behavioral Economics of Organizations Meeting, Cambridge
Università Bocconi
London Business School (Economics)
Universität Zürich
NBER Summer Institute, Personnel Economics

UNC - Duke Corporate Finance Conference (discussant)
NBER Behavioral Finance Conference (discussant)

HBS Strategy Conference (discussant)

London School of Economics (Finance)

London Business School

London School of Economics (Labor)

UC Berkeley

Behavioral Science conference, Yale

Stanford University (Hoover)
Duke University

Universität Mannheim

2002

American Economic Association Meeting, Atlanta GA
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Harvard University
University of Chicago
Northwestern University (Economics, Finance, Strategy)
University of California at Berkeley (Economics, Finance, Economic Policy)
Stanford University
University of California at Los Angeles (Economics, Finance Dept.)
California Institute of Technology
Yale University (Economics, Finance)
University of Michigan (Economics, Finance)
Duke University (Finance)
New York University (Economics, Finance)
Columbia University (Finance)
London School of Economics/STICERD
CREST, Paris
CEMFI, Madrid
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Stanford Institute in Theoretical Economics (SITE), Psychology and Economics Sgmt.
5th Russell Sage Summer Institute for Behavioral Economics, Berkeley CA
European Summer Symposium in Financial Markets, CEPR/Studienzentrum Gerzensee
Wharton (Finance)
Berkeley Program in Finance, Monterey
NBER Organizational Economics Conference, Cambridge (discussant)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Finance)

2001

Econometric Society Meeting, University of Maryland at College Park MD
Stanford Institute in Theoretical Economics (SITE), Segment 4: Empirical Analysis of the Design of Contract and Organizations, Stanford CA
Harvard Law School
Harvard (Economics)
University of Bonn (Germany)
University of Maastricht (Netherlands)

Memberships
Econometric Society, American Economic Association, American Finance Association, American Law and Economics Association

1996

German Federal Reserve Bank (Deutsche Bundesbank), Frankfurt (Germany). 
Summer Intern. Project on credit risk derivatives.

1993-1995

Instructor at Deutsche Bank (GER). Teaching (for trainees/undergraduates) in microeconomics, corporate finance, tax law, corporate law, accounting.

1993

EU Representation of Deutsche Bank, Brussels (Belgium).
Summer Intern. Project on drafts of Capital Adequacy Directive 93/6/EEC.

1992

Banque PARIBAS, Paris (France).
Summer Intern. Export Financing Department.

1991-1993

Deutsche Bank AG, Aachen/Cologne/Frankfurt (Germany).
Diploma in Banking (Staatl. Geprüfte Bankkauffrau) with Highest Distinction.