About

Thank you for visiting, and welcome! I currently hold the DSS Endowed Professorship of Entrepreneurial Finance at TUM School of Management and am an Editor of Small Business Economics and Visiting Associate Professor at the Whitman School. Previously, I held the Chair of Private Equity at the House of Finance in Frankfurt, my hometown in Germany, where I had returned at the onset of the pandemic. I received my Ph.D. in Finance from UCLA and had affiliations with the Wharton School as the Metzler Visiting Professor in the Management Department and as a Research Associate with the Centre of Blockchain Technologies at University College London’s Computer Science Department. I visited Dietmar Harhoff’s group at the Max-Planck-Institute for Innovation and Competition in Munich in May/June 2022. I am also a Fellow in the Economics of Digitization Area at CESifo. I have received the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation 2023 Early-Career Award for my work on Sustainable Entrepreneurship.

My primary research interest is in decentralized markets, platforms, and organizations (often related to crypto and blockchain). My research focuses on value creation, appropriation, and competition in decentralized settings, and empirically assesses the aggregate efficiency of decentralized markets. My secondary research interests are in the intersection of corporate strategy and finance (e.g., mergers and acquisitions, private equity, firm value and performance), labor and innovation, entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial finance, ESG/sustainability, and emotions and affective decision-making.

For my most recent research, see my SSRN profile.