Andreas Walter

Andreas Walter (* 1973 ) is a German economist and has been Professor of Financial Services at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen since 2009 .

Career

Walter first completed a bank apprenticeship at Dresdner Bank AG, after which he studied business administration at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen . In 2002 he did his doctorate at the chair for banking under Werner Neus on the subject of "Rational herd behavior in the event of external effects"; for his dissertation he received the doctoral award of the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen.

After working for some time at Rauser AG (today Towers Watson - Germany) as assistant to the executive board, he switched to the graduate college "Corporate development, market processes and regulation in dynamic decision-making processes" as a scholarship holder and postdoctoral fellow ; meanwhile he also completed a research stay at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan .

Walter then went to Tübingen, where he worked as a research assistant at the chair for banking at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, where he qualified as a professor in 2008 . After initially taking on a substitute professorship at the University of Trier , he was finally appointed to the professorship for financial services at the University of Gießen in 2009.

Walter's research is primarily focused on capital market research , in particular on the decision-making behavior of market participants, especially on so-called herd behavior . He has received numerous awards for his research activities, such as the SWX Best Paper Award, the Walther Rathenau Prize and the Commerzbank Foundation's research award for young scientists.

Since 2015 he has been chairman of the scientific commission for banking / finance (BA-FI) of the Association of University Lecturers for Business Administration (VHB).

Publications

Monographs

• Andreas Walter et al .: DIN SPEC 77222: 2014-04 - Standardized financial analysis for private households. Beuth Verlag, Berlin.
• Rational herd behavior in the event of external effects. Dissertation. University of Tübingen, 2002.

Working papers

• C. Bannier, T. Pauls, A. Walter: CEO-Speeches and Stock Returns: Introducing a German Dictionary for Computer Aided Quantitative Content Analyzes. 2016.
• T. Meyll, T. Pauls, A. Walter: When do Households fail to repay their debt? The role of financial literacy and gender. 2016.
• T. Pauls, O. Stolper, A. Walter: Trust and the supply side of financial advice. 2015.

Articles in specialist journals (selection)

• C. Homale, A. Walter: Delisting as a regulatory task . In: Journal of corporate and corporate law. Vol. 2016, No. 5, 2016, pp. 679-728.
• T. Beck, J. Grunert, W. Neus, A. Walter: What Determines Collection Rates of Debt Collection Agencies? forthcoming. In: Financial Review. 2016.
• J. Doukas, A. Walter: European Financial Management Association (EFMA) Annual Meetings: A retrospective evaluation. In: European Financial Management. Vol. 21, No. 4, 2015, pp. 790-810.
• A. Kadel, A. Walter: Do scholars in Economics and Finance react to alphabetical discrimination? In: Finance Research Letters. Vol. 14, 2015, pp. 64-68.
• D. Arand, A. Kerl, A. Walter: When do sell-side analyst reports really matter? shareholder protection, institutional investors and the informativeness of equity research. In: European Financial Management. Vol. 21, No. 3, pp. 524-555.
• M. Baltzer, O. Stolper, A. Walter: Home-field advantage or a matter of ambiguity aversion? Local bias among German individual investors. In: European Journal of Finance. Vol. 21, No. 9, 2015, pp. 734-754.

Other publications (selection)

• A. Walter: Starting salaries for university graduates. In: Economics Studies. Vol. 33, 2004, pp. 55-57.
• F. Eisele, A. Walter: Tracking Stocks, in: Das Wirtschaftsstudium. Vol. 31, 2002, p. 65.
• F. Eisele, W. Neus, A. Walter: Functionality and valuation of interest rate swaps. In: Business Studies. Vol. 30, 2001, pp. 700-707.

Web links

• Website of the University of Giessen (accessed January 12, 2017)
• Literature by and about Andreas Walter in the catalog of the German National Library