01.11.2024
CFR Assistant Professorship for Investments
We are pleased to welcome Dr. Benedikt Fabian Ballensiefen as a new Assistant Professor for Investments at the CFR. Dr. Ballensiefen completed his doctorate on the topic of "Short-Term Funding Markets" and his research focuses on asset pricing, monetary policy, and market structure. We are very pleased to have gained Dr. Ballensiefen as a promising young researcher who will enrich the CFR with his research expertise and experience from his work for the World Bank.

01.09.2024
CFR Working Paper Accepted for Publication
The CFR Working Paper No. 20-10 "Earnings Autocorrelation and the Post-Earnings-Announcement Drift: Experimental Evidence" by Josef Fink, Stefan Palan and Erik Theissen has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis.

30.08.2024
CFR Working Paper Accepted for Publication
The CFR Working Paper No. 24-04 "The 'Privatization' of Municipal Debt" by Ivan T. Ivanov and Tom Zimmermann has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Public Economics.

17.08.2024
CFR Working Paper Accepted for Publication
The CFR Working Paper No. 21-01 "Hedge Funds and the Positive Idiosyncratic Volatility Effect" by Turan G. Bali and Florian Weigert has been accepted for publication in the Review of Finance.

18.07.2024
CFR Working Paper Accepted for Publication
The CFR Working Paper No. 22-06 "Conflicting Incentives in the Management of 529 Plans" by Justin Balthrop and Gjergji Cici has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Law and Economics.

12.07.2024
CFR Working Paper Accepted for Publication
The CFR Working Paper No. 21-02 "Does Speculative News Hurt Productivity? Evidence from Takeover Rumors" by Christian Andres, Dmitry Bazhutov, Douglas Cumming, Gerrit Koechling and Peter Limbach has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis.

01.07.2024
New Member of the Advisory Body
Mr Christian Otto, President of the Regional Office of the Deutsche Bundesbank in North Rhine-Westphalia, has been appointed to the CFR Advisory Body with effect from 1 July 2024. We warmly welcome him and look forward to a good working relationship.

27.06.2024
CFR Working Paper Accepted for Publication
The CFR Working Paper No. 21-05 "On the Valuation Skills of Corporate Bond Mutual Funds" by Gjergji Cici and Pei (Alex) Zhang has been accepted for publication in Review of Finance.

12.06.2024
New Member of the Board of the Fördergesellschaft Finanzmarktforschung
We warmly welcome Matthias Schellenberg, CEO of apoBank, as a new member of the Board of the Fördergesellschaft Finanzmarktforschung. He succeeds Harry Ploemacher, who has also resigned from his position on the Board of the Fördergesellschaft Finanzmarktforschung upon his retirement.

12.03.2024
CFR Working Paper has been accepted for Publication
The CFR Working Paper No. 23-06 "How Should the Long-term Investor Harvest Variance Risk Premiums?” by Julian Dörries, Olaf Korn and Gabriel J. Power has been accepted for publication in "The Journal of Portfolio Management".

05.02.2024
Deutschlandstipendium
The Centre for Financial Research financially supports three students in the field of finance at the University of Cologne as part of the "Deutschlandstipendium" --> Certificate.

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Responsible for content in the sense of § 18 para. 2 MStV:
Dr. Alexander Pütz
Centre for Financial Research (CFR)
Albertus-Magnus-Platz
50923 Köln
puetz@cfr-cologne.de