Ernst-Ludwig von Thadden

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Ernst-Ludwig von Thadden (* 1959 in Göttingen ) is a German economist and professor of economics at the University of Mannheim . From 2012 to 2018 he was rector of the University of Mannheim.

Life

Von Thadden received his Abitur at the Max-Planck-Gymnasium Göttingen in 1978 and then studied mathematics and economics at the University of Heidelberg and at the London School of Economics . In 1991 he was part of the "European Doctoral Program in Economics" in the subject Economics at the University of Bonn doctorate . After positions at the University of Basel (Switzerland) and at Stanford University (CA), he was appointed full professor at the University of Lausanne in 1995 . There he was u. a. Research director of the National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) "FinRisk" and head of the doctoral program of the "International Center FAME for Financial Asset Management and Engineering", a forerunner of the Swiss Finance Institute . In 1998/99 von Thadden was Resident Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) in Stanford (CA). In 2002 he held the Bertil Danielson Chair at the Stockholm School of Economics and the University of Gothenburg. In 2004 he accepted a position at the Department of Economics at the University of Mannheim .

Ernst-Ludwig von Thadden is the son of Wiebke and Rudolf von Thadden and the brother of Elisabeth von Thadden . He is married to Monika Abt and has three children, Rebekka, Julia and Jakob.

research

His main research interests are microeconomics and capital market theory as well as financial intermediation . His best-known contributions to capital structure theory are his work with Berglöf on the maturity of debt financing and with Patrick Bolton on the liquidity of blocks of shares. On the question of the political and historical dimensions of corporate control through capital markets, Perotti's work on the political economy of corporate control gained importance. In the theory of banking are u. a. known his work on the maturity of bank loans, the information asymmetry of bank-company relationships and the dynamic modeling of maturity transformation. In addition to these topics, he mainly worked on the newly emerging European bond market in the 2000s and in 2010 published with Berglöf and Roland a widely recognized microeconomic theory of bankruptcy. After 2008, von Thadden increasingly turned to the structural problems of the financial system revealed in the financial crisis of 2007, which he had previously pointed out. In 2014, his theory of the instability of secured credit financing relationships, which he had developed with Martin and Skeie, was published.

Academic responsibility

Von Thadden was editor of the Journal of Financial Intermediation from 2001 to 2004 and was editor-in-chief of the journal from 2004 to 2008. Since 2009 he has been a member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences . In 2006 he became the founding director of the Graduate School of the Economic and Social Sciences at the University of Mannheim, which he acquired as part of the German Excellence Initiative . In addition to various other positions in international academic self-government, he has been chairman of the board of the European Corporate Governance Research Foundation in Brussels since 2014 and a member of the advisory board of the Journal of Economic Perspectives of the American Economic Association since 2015 . Since 2015 he has been a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the "European Systemic Risk Board" at the European Central Bank.

Rectorate

Member of the University Council of the University of Mannheim since 2008, von Thadden was elected Rector of the University of Mannheim in October 2012. As rector, he placed particular emphasis on the structural promotion of young academics and worked towards further increasing the international competitiveness of the University of Mannheim, which did very well in international rankings towards the end of his tenure in the social and economic sciences. In 2015 the University of Mannheim was a founding member of the “Alliance of Leading Universities on Migration” (ALUM) together with the London School of Economics, Science Po (Paris) and others. As rector, von Thadden also spoke out on current social and university policy issues. Contributions to the public discussion from this time deal, for example, with the European debt crisis or German university policy. Even before he took office, von Thadden announced that he would only be available for one term as rector of the University of Mannheim. He resigned from this office at the end of his term in October 2018.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prof. Dr. Dr. hc Karl Ulrich Mayer .: Guest contribution: “Von Thadden knew from the start where he wanted to steer his university”. In: FORUM. University of Mannheim, October 2018, accessed on December 13, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Gesine Millhoff: Castle University with a new captain. (PDF file) Conversation with Professor Ernst-Ludwig von Thadden. In: Mannheim - Stadt im Quadrat, Volume 43, 2013, pp. 104–105. Retrieved June 9, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Thorsten Lindenbauer: Simply great: Mannheim Faculty for Economics wins two internationally outstanding scientists , University of Mannheim, May 14, 2004
  4. ↑ Profile: Prof. Dr. Ernst-Ludwig von Thadden. (Video, 27 minutes) In: rnf.de. Rhein-Neckar Fernsehen, April 15, 2013, accessed on August 9, 2016 .
  5. ^ E. Perotti and E. von Thadden: The Political Economy of Corporate Control and Labor Rents . In: Journal of Political Economy 114 . 2006, p. 145-174 .
  6. ↑ esp. C. Favero, M. Pagano, E. von Thadden, How Does Liquidity Affect Government Bond Yields? in Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 45, 2010, 107-134.
  7. ^ E. von Thadden, E. Berglöf and G. Roland, The Design of Corporate Debt Structure and Bankruptcy in Review of Financial Studies 23, 2010, 2648-2679.
  8. ↑ z. B. in E. von Thadden: Bank Capital Adequacy Regulation and the New Basel Accord , in Journal of Financial Intermediation 13, 2004, 90-95.
  9. ^ A. Martin, D. Skeie and E. von Thadden: Repo Runs , in: Review of Financial Studies 27, 2014, 957-989. For a broader public see the presentation "Bank collapses and the repo market from a game-theoretical point of view", in: Yearbook of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences 2011, 99-107.
  10. ^ Members of the HAdW since it was founded in 1909. Ernst-Ludwig von Thadden. Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, accessed on June 9, 2016 .
  11. ↑ Excellence Initiative: GESS Graduate School officially opened. Retrieved January 2, 2018 .
  12. ^ American Economic Association. Retrieved January 2, 2018 .
  13. ^ Advisory Scientific Committee. European Systemic Risk Board, accessed January 2, 2018 .
  14. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from February 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  15. ↑ Peter W. Ragge: A powerful designer goes , Mannheimer Morgen October 4, 2012
  16. ^ E. von Thadden: Flexible conversion. In: Research, 2/2014, pp. 24–25. German Research Foundation, accessed on January 2, 2018 .
  17. ^ Rector von Thadden does not want a second term of office , Mannheimer Morgen , July 13, 2017
  18. ^ Times Higher Education: World University Rankings. Retrieved October 1, 2017 .
  19. ↑ Interview on the occasion of the second international conference held in Mannheim in November 2016: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7lrIDnY2NI&list=PL3snVYOIL07ugDTtFVepBtYxmTmx7V7WS&index=3
  20. ^ Ernst-Ludwig von Thadden: Learn from Greece! Die ZEIT Nr. 51, 2015, accessed on February 5, 2017 .
  21. ^ J. Rocholl, E. von Thadden: Reverse brain drain: Magnet Germany . In: Handelsblatt . December 7, 2016 ( handelsblatt.com [accessed February 5, 2017]).
  22. ↑ Prof. Dr. Dr. hc Karl Ulrich Mayer .: Guest contribution: “Von Thadden knew from the start where he wanted to steer his university”. In: FORUM. University of Mannheim, October 2018, accessed on December 13, 2018 .
  23. ↑ The topic of finances is an unpleasant one , Mannheim morning October 5, 2018

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BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist
DATE OF BIRTH 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Goettingen