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At the start of the semester, the new Dean, Prof. Guido Friebel, addresses all students, alumni, colleagues, and members of the Faculty of Economics and Business in a welcoming speech.

Dies academicus 2025

We are very pleased to invite you to our festive event "Dies academicus" on Friday, November 7, and to give you an insight into the diverse activities of the Faculty of Economics and Business.

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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…

07/07/25 | Research

Highest number of citations achieved in…

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

06/17/25 | General

Award for Prof. Dr. Cornelia Storz

On June 12, 2025, the Japanese government awarded Prof. Dr. Cornelia Storz the Imperial Order…

06/03/25 | General

Christian Schlag appointed member of the…

As an advisory board member of the renowned Parisian university, Christian Schlag, Dean of the…

03/28/25 | Research

SAFE Researcher Peter Andre receives Heinz…

Prestigious German Research Foundation award recognizes outstanding academic achievements of…

01/25/25 | General

Financial literacy made in Hesse: New study…

Researchers at the Leibniz Institute SAFE publish a study on the financial literacy of young…

01/20/25 | General

New professorship for artificial intelligence…

Goethe University Frankfurt is further expanding its research and teaching on artificial…

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…

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Andreas Hackethal et al.

Inflation and Trading

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

Andreas Hackethal et al.

Educating Investors about Dividends

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

Peter Andre &

Shallow Meritocracy

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

Thomas Otter et al.

Discrete Choice in Marketing through the…

Models derived from random utility theory represent the workhorse methods to learn about consum…

Roman Inderst et al.

Sustainable finance versus environmental…

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

Thomas Otter et al.

Accounting for formative and reflective…

Observations of product and service reviews suggest that textual product reviews may contain st…

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