Thorsten Hens

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Thorsten Hens

Thorsten Hens (born December 19, 1961 in Gevelsberg ) is a German economist . He is Professor of Economics at the Swiss Finance Institute and at the Institute for Banking and Finance (IBF) at the University of Zurich . In addition to his professorship in Switzerland, Thorsten Hens is Associate Professor of Finance at the Norwegian Business School in Bergen, Norway. He studied at the University of Bonn and at the DELTA in Paris, and was an assistant professor at Stanford University and Bielefeld University . His research areas include finance and evolutionary finance .

In the Handelsblatt Business Economist Ranking 2009 for the German-speaking region, Thorsten Hens was ranked 27th in terms of life's work. In his research on how investors make their decisions, Professor Hens uses psychology and human biology to explain the dynamics of the financial market. His consulting experience includes behavioral finance for private banking and evolutionary finance for asset management .

Books (selection)

  • Financial Economics: A concise Introduction to Classical and Behavioral Finance by Thorsten Hens and Marc O Rieger, Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany (2010)
  • Handbook of Financial Markets: Dynamics and Evolution by Thorsten Hens and Klaus Reiner Schenk-Hoppé, North Holland (2009), ISBN 978-0-12-374258-2
  • Basics of analytical microeconomics by Thorsten Hens and Paolo Pamini, Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany (2008), ISBN 978-3-540-28157-3
  • Behavioral Finance for Private Banking by Thorsten Hens and Kremena Bachmann, Wiley Finance (2008), ISBN 978-0-470-77999-6
  • Basics of analytical macroeconomics by Thorsten Hens and Carlo Strub, Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany (2004), ISBN 3-540-20082-7
  • General Equilibrium Foundations of Finance by Thorstens Hens and Beate Pilgrim, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, the Netherlands (2003)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Handelsblatt Business Economist Ranking 2009: Top 200 - Lifetime Achievement ( Memento from March 28, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Hens, Thorsten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Gevelsberg