Wolfgang Bühler (economist)

Wolfgang Bühler (born September 26, 1943 in Schwäbisch Hall ) has been Professor of Finance at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia , since March 2010 .

Life

Before that, he was a professor of business administration with a focus on finance at the University of Mannheim . In addition to Peter Albrecht , Ernst Maug and Martin Weber, he held one of the four chairs in the Banking, Finance and Insurance area . He is regarded as the specialist in the field of bonds , interest rate derivatives , risk management and the microstructure of financial markets. Bühler has made a significant contribution to the establishment of internationally competitive empirical capital market research in Germany.

After studying mathematics in an economic direction at the Technical Universities of Stuttgart and Munich from 1962 to 1968, Wolfgang Bühler worked as a research assistant at the chair for Operations Research under Hans-Jürgen Zimmermann at RWTH Aachen University until 1976. 1971 Doctorate to Dr. rer. pole. at RWTH Aachen. 1976 Habilitation at RWTH Aachen, venia legendi for business administration and operations research. From 1977 to 1983 and 1984 to 1990, Bühler held the Chair of Investment and Finance at the University of Dortmund . 1983/84 holder of the chair for banking management at Saarland University . Since 1990 Prof. Bühler has held the chair for financing at the University of Mannheim, since 1991 research professorship with project responsibility at the Center for European Economic Research , Mannheim, since 1995 director of the Institute for Investment Banking at the University of Mannheim.

Bühler was also visiting professor at the University of California , Los Angeles (UCLA), the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management, Brussels , the Leonard N. Stern School of Business , New York University and the Post Graduate School of Economics, Rio de Janeiro .

Scientific awards

• Borchert Medal from RWTH Aachen University for the dissertation that was rated "summa cum laude" (1971)
• Habilitation scholarship from the DFG (1973–1976)
• Best Paper Awards at the conferences of Inquire (Europe), Q-Group (USA) and the Western Finance Association (USA) (1991, 1997, 1998)
• State Research Award of the State of Baden-Württemberg (1998)
• Award of an honorary doctorate by the LMU Munich (2001)
• Full member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences (2002)

Co-editorships

• Management Science (1986-1991)
• Journal for Business Research (since 1992)
• Review of Derivatives Research (since 1994)
• European Financial Management (since 1994)
• Review of Finance, formerly: European Finance Review (since 1996)

Fonts

• together with Theo Siegert (ed.): Corporate management and incentive systems. Congress documentation. 52nd German Business Economist Day 1998 (= series of publications by the Schmalenbach Society for Business Administration ). Schäffer-Poeschel, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-7910-1439-0 .