Martin Weber (economist)

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Martin Weber (born January 13, 1952 in Stuttgart ) is professor of business administration with a focus on banking at the University of Mannheim .

Life

Martin Weber studied mathematics and business administration and obtained his doctorate and habilitation in business administration at RWTH Aachen University . Before he accepted a position from Mannheim, he worked as a professor at the Universities of Cologne and Kiel. He spent approximately three years as visiting professor at UCLA , Wharton School , Stanford University and the Fuqua School of Business , Duke University .

His main research interests are banking management and behavioral finance with their psychological foundations. He is the author of a large number of publications in this field and co-editor of numerous national and international journals. From 1997 to 2002 he was a spokesman and has since then been the deputy spokesman for the Collaborative Research Center 504 “Rationality, Decision-making Behavior and Economic Modeling” of the German Research Foundation at the University of Mannheim. He has been a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences since 2002 . From April 2004 to March 2006 he was Dean of the Faculty of Business Administration at the University of Mannheim.

In addition to his research activities, one of Martin Weber's concerns is to increase the financial literacy of private investors. On this subject he has published a book entitled “Simply invest in genius”. The investment fund ARERO - Der Weltfonds (WKN DWS0R4), launched on October 20, 2008, is based on a “concept of optimized asset management for private investors” that was developed at his chair.

On June 22nd, 2007 he received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Economics at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster ( Westphalia ).

In the Handelsblatt business economics ranking in 2009 and 2010, he reached third place in the “Lifetime Achievement” category. a. Dirk Schiereck , Thomas Langer , Markus Nöth , Lars Norden , Markus Glaser and Sascha Steffen .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Member entry by Martin Weber (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on July 15, 2016.
  2. ↑ www.handelsblatt.com: Arero Fund: One man, one book, one fund
  3. ↑ www.morningstar.de: How efficient is the world fund?
  4. ↑ Arero World Fund: The Ikea Mixture ( Memento from January 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Why ARERO? ( Memento from April 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ Excellent cooperation with the Faculty of Business and Economics ( Memento from June 7, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ Handelsblatt Ranking Business Administration 2012
personal data
SURNAME Weber, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist, university professor for business administration
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart