Dr. Svenja Jarchow receives the 2019 JUMS best Reviewer Award in the category Banking and Finance! The Journal Junior Management Science honors outstanding reviewers once a year. The journal opens a unique platform for peer-reviewed articles by young scholars, giving them the opportunity for early… [read more]

The paper "I gotta feeling: How Twitter sentiment predicts venture capital valuations of technology startups" by Prof. Reiner Braun, Barbara Stolz and Prof. Andranik Tumasjan (Uni Mainz) and the paper "What Makes a Corporate Investor Desirable? - An Investigation of Entrepreneurial Decision-Making"… [read more]

Prof. Reiner Braun will be speaking as panelist at the “Private Equity & Venture Capital Summit” on March 27th/28th, 2019, about "The German market for PE co-investments". [read more]

The paper “Adverse Selection and the Performance of Private Equity Co-investments” by R. Braun, T. Jenkinson and C. Schemmerl was accepted for publication in the Journal of Financial Economics. It is forthcoming throughout 2019. [read more]

Prof. Braun gave a radio interview on “Why the world needs more venture capitalists” on SWR 2 on Sunday, December 9th during a special show on risk. The interview is available through the SWR mediathek. [read more]

The paper "Whom to Follow: Individual Manager Performance and Persistence in Private Equity Investments” by R. Braun, N. Dorau, T. Jenkinson and D. Urban was presented at the beginning of November 2018 at the 10th Annual Private Equity Research Consortium (PERC) Symposium in Chapel Hill, NC. The… [read more]

Established in 1971, the World Economic Forum (WEF) has become a leading foundation and think-tank for the development of future shaping ideas, thoughts and agendas. Bringing together leaders of politics, business and society, WEF's Global Future Councils are an interdisciplinary network for… [read more]

acatech – The NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING – is an independent German organization that represents the interests of the German scientific and technological communities. They provide recommendations for policy makers as well as society and support knowledge transfer between science and… [read more]

We are happy to announce that the CEFS supported project "Burkina Faso Insitute of Technology" (bit) was able to receive accredetation for the first year Bachelor course in a record time and just started the first class of students! [read more]

The paper "PATENT-BASED INVESTMENT FUNDS: FROM INVENTION TO INNOVATION" by Svenja Jarchow (CEFS) and Andrea Röhm (CEFS) is now available online! Please click here for a view-only version. [read more]