Professor Achleitner (CEFS) holds the keynote speech at the 21th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference on Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Wuppertal. [read more]

On 5 July 2017 Prof. Dr. Dr. Ann-Kristin Achleitner was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Business & Economics at Leuphana University of Lüneburg due to her outstanding academic work in the field of entrepreneurial finance. The honorary doctorate was conferred within the festive… [read more]

The Paper "Similarity in Business Angel Investments" by Dr. Svenja Jarchow and Barbara Stolz has been accepted for presentation at the RENT Conference 2017 in Lund, Sweden [read more]

Only few days after being uploaded the working paper "FOUNDATION OWNERSHIP AND SHAREHOLDER VALUE: AN EVENT STUDY" by Achleitner et al. made it on SSRN's Top Ten download list for: CGN: Endowments & Foundations as Investors (Sub-Topic). Please visit the SSRN page for an abstract view or a download… [read more]

A new Working paper by Ann-Kristin Achleitner (CEFS), Dmitry Bazhutov and André Betzer (University of Wuppertal) and Jörn Block and Florian Hosseini (University of Trier) was uploaded on SSRN [read more]

On April 24th, Barbara Scheck presented the joint research on "Reporting in Social Entrepreneurship" at the Asia Centre for Social Entrepreneurship & Philanthropy, NUS Business School's 2017 International Symposium on Social Entrepreneurship. The presented project originated from a coopaeration… [read more]

We are happy to announce that the joint research project of Prof. Ann-Kristin Achleitner (TU München, CEFS), Prof. André Betzer (University of Wuppertal) and Prof. Jörn Hendrich Block (University of Trier), on „Best practices and rules for good corporate governance in foundation owned firms“ can… [read more]

This month several papers submitted by CEFS researchers were accepted for international conferences. The paper “Adverse Selection and the Performance of Private Equity Co-Investments” by Reiner Braun and Christoph Schemmerl together with Tim Jenkinson from the University of Oxford was accepted… [read more]

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Prof. Kaserer has been appointed as a member of the Group of Economic Advisors (GEA) of the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) for the period 2016 to 2018. ESMA has established the GEA to benefit from the expertise of stakeholders who are specialised in the analysis and risk assessment… [read more]