Manfred Steiner (economist)

Manfred Steiner (born December 24, 1942 in Augsburg ) is a German economist .

Life

After studying business administration at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich from 1966 to 1970, Manfred Steiner was from 1970 to 1976 first as a personal advisor to the then founding president Louis Perridon of the University of Augsburg and then as a research assistant / assistant at the chair for finance and banking active. In 1974 he received his PhD from the University of Augsburg with a thesis on the meaning and implications of learning and adaptation processes for corporate accounting. rer. pole. PhD . In 1979 he was at the University of Augsburg with Scripture "profitability-oriented corporate credit and insolvency risk" habilitation and received the teaching license ( venia legendi ) in Business Administration.

From 1979 to 1985 Steiner held a chair for business administration at the University of Bremen . From 1985 to 1994 he held the chair for financing at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster . From 1994 to the winter semester of 2009/10, Steiner was Professor of Finance and Banking at the University of Augsburg, succeeding Louis Perridon. Marco Wilkens has held the chair for finance and banking since the 2010 summer semester.

Act

Manfred Steiner is a specialist in the field of empirical capital market research , institutional finance and credit checks. Steiner made a significant contribution to the further development of a heavily institutionalized finance theory from the 1970s into a modern finance theory. Steiner became particularly well-known for his textbook Finanzwirtschaft der Unternehmen, which is now in its 17th edition.

Scientific memberships and awards

• Member of the working group "Financing Accounts" of the Schmalenbach Society
• Chairman of the German Society for Finance (2006)
• Postbank Finance Award (2005)
• Paul Julius Reuters Award (2001 and 2008)
• Authors of the year 2000 of the magazine for business administration

Authors and editors

• Perridon / Steiner, Finanzwirtschaft der Unternehmens (1977–2009) in 15 editions
• Steiner / Bruns, Wertpapiermanagement (1993–2007) in 9 editions
• Gerke / Steiner, dictionary of banking and finance, HWF, 3rd edition, 2001

literature

• Andreas Rathgeber, Hermann-Josef Tebroke, Martin Wallmeier (eds.): Finance, capital markets and banks. Festschrift for Manfred Steiner. Schäffer-Poeschel, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-7910-2083-8 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Manfred Steiner in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website of the chair of Prof. Dr. Steiner