Assistant ProfessorPh.D. (with distinction) in Finance, Columbia University (2003)
Diplom-Kaufmann, WHU Koblenz (1998)
Diplôme de l’ESC, Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Lyon (1998)
"Correlated Trading and Returns," with Gur Huberman and Paul Sengmueller, 2008, Journal of Finance, Vol. 63, Nr. 2, pp. 885-920
"Does Sentiment Drive the Retail Demand for IPOs?," 2007, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, forthcoming.
"Talk and Action: What Individual Investors Say and What They Do," with Gur Huberman, 2005, Review of Finance, Vol. 9, Nr. 4, pp. 437-481 (lead article).
Lamfalussy Fellow of the European Central Bank, 2008
BSI Gamma Foundation Grant, August 2005
Graduate Fellow (1998-2002) and Dean's Fellow (1998-1999), Columbia Business School
Overseas Fellow of the German National Merit Foundation (Stipendiat der Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, 1998-1999)
German National Merit Scholar (1995-1999)
Dissertation Intern, Federal Reserve Board of Governors, Washington, DC, 2002.
Research Intern, J.P. Morgan Securities Ltd., Portfolio Research, London, 1999.
Summer Intern, Hoechst Marion Roussel Inc. (now part of Sanofi-Aventis), Capital Budgeting, Bridgewater, NJ, 1997 and 1998.
