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Professor

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Department:

Department of Economics and Social Sciences

Study area:

Business administration

Research areas:

  • Portfolio management
  • Risk management
  • Option valuation

1986-1988

Apprenticeship as a bank clerk, Frankfurt main branch of Deutsche Bank AG

1988

Bank clerk qualification

1989-1991

Studied economics at the University of Bonn

1991-1992

DAAD scholarship holder in the Economics PhD programme at the University of California at Berkeley, USA

1992-1994

Studied economics at the University of Bonn

1994

Completion of the degree programme with the academic degree "Diplom-Volkswirt"

1994-1997

Fellow / Junior Associate in the Frankfurt office of the management consultancy McKinsey & Company. Worked in consulting for banks and insurance companies.

1996-1998

Doctoral programme at the University of Paderborn

1998

Doctorate (Dr rer. pol.)

Topic of the dissertation: "Use and evaluation of exotic options"

1997-2000

Corporate Finance Advisor in the Frankfurt office of the investment bank Dresdner Kleinwort Benson. He advises on equity and M&A transactions for DAX and MDAX companies.

2002

Completion of the CFA programme with the award of the CFA charter

2000-2003

Professor of General Business Administration, in particular Corporate Finance, at the University of Applied Sciences Hildesheim / HOlzminden / Göttingen, Hildesheim location

since 2003

Professorship for General Business Administration, in particular Financial Management, at Nordhausen University of Applied Sciences

Fonts

  • Einsatz und Bewertung von exotischen Optionen, Dissertation 1998, Wiesbaden, Dt. Univ.-Verl.
  • Exotic products reduce exchange rate risk. In: Finanz und Wirtschaft of 4 September 1999, p. 13
  • Banking syndicate. In: A. Achleitner and G. F. Thoma, editors, Handbuch Corporate Finance, Deutscher Wirtschaftsdienst: Cologne, 2001, loose-leaf collection chapter 3.4.2 (together with Michael Rohleder).
  • Pension funds as an instrument for the innovative structuring of pension schemes within the framework of company pension schemes. In: Finanz-Betrieb, 2002, pp. 349-360 (together with Christian Wojtysiak)
  • Syndication. In A. Achleitner and G. F. Thoma, editors, Handbuch Corporate Finance, Deutscher Wirtschaftsdienst: Cologne, 2002, loose-leaf collection chapter 3.4.3 (together with Susanne Lahmann).
  • Fundamentals of debt financing. In A. Achleitner and G. F. Thoma, editors, Handbuch Corporate Finance, Deutscher Wirtschaftsdienst: Cologne, 2003, loose-leaf collection chapter 4.1.1.

Prof Dr Markus Schäfer

Marcus Schäfer