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6000

domestic and
international students

professors

excellent teaching
and research
departments

sound and
sophisticated
study programs

137

partner universities
in 53 countries

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04/02/26 | Research

Landwehr participates in Large-Scale…

A new study published in the prestigious journal Nature under the title “Investigating the…

04/02/26 | General

Goethe University Frankfurt Among Germany’s…

Goethe University Frankfurt is once again among the leading universities in auditing.

04/01/26 | Research

New Deputy Dean for Research

The Faculty of Economics and Business is pleased to announce that Georg Dürnecker has been…

02/02/26 | General

Peter Gomber re-elected to the FWB Stock…

Peter Gomber, Chair of e-Finance, was elected for three more years as a member of the Exchange…

02/02/26 | Research

“Financial Markets and Frictions” Successfully…

The German Research Foundation (DFG) has approved the research group FOR 5230 Financial Markets…

12/15/25 | General

Leadership and social cohesion

Our times are dominated by crises as well as social polarization and fragmentation. When it…

11/03/25 | Research

Faculty of Economics and Business joins the…

We are proud to announce that the Faculty of Economics and Business has joined the newly…

10/06/25 | General

New Deans at the Faculty of Economics and…

At the start of the winter semester 2025/2026, a new team of Deans will take over the…

09/30/25 | General

John Turner appointed visiting professor of…

In 2026, the “Financial History” Visiting Professorship at Goethe University will be held by…

08/25/25 | Research

Successful reaccreditation by the AACSB

In May 2025, the Faculty of Economics and Business (Faculty 02) at Goethe University Frankfurt…

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

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Loriana Pelizzon et al.

Market Liquidity and Competition among…

Do competition and incentives offered to designated market makers (DMMs) improve market liquidi…

Published in: Management Science

Christine Laudenbach et al.

Gender Differences in Financial Advice

Based on data gathered from 27,000 real-world meetings between financial advisors and clients o…

To be published in: American Economic Review

Olga Balakina et al.

Personal Financial Advice and Portfolio…

We document widespread use of personal financial advice among retail investors. Individuals see…

To be published in: Review of Finance

Andreas Hackethal et al.

Inflation and Trading

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

Published in: Journal of Financial Economics

Andreas Hackethal et al.

Educating Investors about Dividends

We educate investors about the benefits of dividend reinvestment and costs of misperceiving div…

Published in: Review of Financial Studies

Calogero Brancatelli et al.

CPG consumption in times of recession:…

We utilize a novel dataset that merges household administrative income and socio-demographic in…

Published in: Quantitative Marketing and Economics

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