Welcome to our research website!

On these pages, we would like to give you a compact overview of our objectives, the structure of the research landscape at our faculty and our most outstanding research results. In addition to our publication database, you will also find information on career entry and news of current events.

Objectives and Mission Statement

Tradition, research performance and impact

Rich in tradition, the Faculty of Economics and Business at Goethe University Frankfurt is one of the largest and most research-intensive in Germany.

Research Profile

Externally Funded Projects

News

07/07/25 | Research

Highest number of citations achieved in…

Top rankings in FinTech research: In the current bibliometric analysis "Financial technology…

03/28/25 | Research

SAFE Researcher Peter Andre receives Heinz…

Prestigious German Research Foundation award recognizes outstanding academic achievements of…

12/19/24 | Research

Green light for the research project…

Since the proclamation of the German Empire in 1871 until today, the country’s economic and…

08/13/24 | Research

Research on explainable AI wins Best Paper…

Oliver Hinz, Moritz von Zahn (Faculty of Economics and Business at Goethe University) and Kevin…

07/04/24 | Research

Sasan Mansouri gewinnt FIRM-Forschungspreis…

Am 20. Juni fand die FIRM-Forschungskonferenz statt. Drei junge Forscher*innen, Dr. Sasan…

06/24/24 | Research

Symposium: Niemals ohne Mathematik und…

Im Rahmen einer Festveranstaltung blickt der Fachbereich zum 80. Geburtstag von Prof. Dr.…

Careers in Research

Wide variety of entry points and career opportunities

Would you like to pursue doctoral studies and/or a career in research and teaching? Find out here about the many options, career paths and prospects.

Career Entry & Prospects

Research Support

Sturm & Drang Prize

Job Market Candidates

Doctoral studies at the faculty

Graduate School of Economics, Finance, and Management

Goethe Research Academy for Early Career Researchers

Newsletter for Early Career Researchers

Jobs Academic Career

Institutions and Facilities

Excellent clusters and infrastructure

The faculty profits from numerous established partnerships with renowned institutions (universities, institutes, etc.) and a modern research infrastructure in Frankfurt am Main, continental Europe’s most important financial hub.

Institutes & Clusters

Infrastructure

Ethics Committee

Research Contribution

Top-class research, recognized expertise

The faculty’s researchers publish regularly in scientific / selected journals. As acknowledged experts, they also often appear in the press and other media.

Publications

Andreas Hackethal et al.

Inflation and Trading

We study how investors respond to inflation combining a customized survey experiment with tradi…

Peter Andre &

Shallow Meritocracy

Meritocracies aspire to reward hard work and promise not to judge individuals by the circumstan…

Roman Inderst et al.

Sustainable finance versus environmental…

Our paper analyzes whether a planner should design a taxonomy for sustainable investment produc…

Benjamin Clapham et al.

Non-Standard Errors

In statistics, samples are drawn from a population in a data-generating process (DGP). Standard…

Anika Stuppy et al.

The Art of Slowness: Slow Motion Enhances…

Slow motion is a popular video editing tool used to enhance short-form videos (e.g., reels, sto…

Maik Schmeling et al.

What Moves Markets?

What share of asset price movements is driven by news? We build a large, time-stamped event dat…