Rüdiger Fahlenbrach (born 1974 in

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) is a German

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specialised in finance. He is a professor of finance at EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) and holds the Swiss Finance Institute Senior Research Chair.

Career

From 1995 to 1999, Fahlenbrach studied business administration at the

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and at the

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. He then pursued a PhD in finance with

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at the

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of the

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. In 2004, he graduated with a PhD thesis "Essays in Corporate Governance". Afterwards he joined the

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at the

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as an assistant professor of finance to work on ownership structures of large public corporations for corporate policies and performance. In 2009 he moved to the Swiss Finance Institute at EPFL where he currently is full professor and holds a Swiss Finance Institute Senior Research Chair. He has held visiting professorships, at

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(ESMT) in Berlin,

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, and

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Research

Fahlenbrach's research interests are on empirical corporate finance and

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. He has investigated

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issues that arise from the separation of ownership and control in the modern

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, and examined the causes and effects of the financial crisis of 2007 and 2008, including the role of bank governance and regulatiuon for the crisis. He has published in the ''

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''. His research has been covered in ''

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Distinctions

Fahlenbrach served as director of the European Finance Association (2018-2020), and in 2020, he was appointed chair of the scientific council and member of the scientific advisory board of the Halle Institute for Economic Research. He is a research member of the European Corporate Governance Institute. He has been associate editor of the ''Review of Financial Studies'' (2013-2016) and ''Financial Management'' (2012-2016). Since 2014, he has been associate editor of the ''Review of Finance''.

Selected works

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References

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Fahlenbrach, Ruediger 1974 births Living people University of Mannheim alumni ESSEC Business School alumni University of Pennsylvania alumni Academic staff of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne German economists