Call for Submissions: Sturm & Drang Prize

This year again the Sturm & Drang Prize will be awarded for the best publication by early career researchers at the Faculty of Economics and Business.

For more information on the prize and the previous winners, click on the button. The deadline for submissions is August 31, 2025.

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07/07/25 | Research

Highest number of citations achieved in…

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

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…

12/18/24 | General

Excellent positions in the WirtschaftsWoche…

In a recent ranking by WirtschaftsWoche, Oliver Hinz (Professor of Information Systems and…

10/19/24 | General

Rui Esteves will hold the Visiting…

Rui Esteves is a specialist in monetary and financial history with a particular interest in…

09/19/24 | General

SAFE invites to the Science Festival at…

On Saturday, 28 September 2024, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., the first Frankfurt Science Festival,…

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…

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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…

Loriana Pelizzon et al.

The Carrot and the Stick: Bank Bailouts…

We empirically examine the Capital Purchase Program (CPP) used by the U.S. government to bail o…

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