Associate Member

Christine Laudenbach

Main research
Behavioral Economics, Financial Decision Making of Private Households

  • Biografische Angaben

    Christine Laudenbach is Professor of Household Finance at the Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE. She previously held a professorship in finance at the University of Bonn and was a postdoctoral researcher at Goethe University Frankfurt and the University of Mannheim, where she received her doctorate in 2012. Research stays have taken her to the Universities of Washington, Seattle, and Columbia University in New York. Her research focuses on how household decisions can be influenced and improved through financial education, financial advice or innovative self-help tools. Her work has been published in international journals such as the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics and Management Science.
  • Publikationen

    Laudenbach, C., Ungeheuer, M. und Weber, M., 2021, How to Alleviate Correlation Neglect?, CEPR Discussion Paper DP13737, accepted at Management Science. Laudenbach, C. und Siegel, S., 2023, Personal Communication in an Automated World: Evidence from Loan Payments, accepted at the Journal of Finance. Laudenbach, C., Hackethal, A., Kirchler, M., Razen, M. und Weber, A., 2022, On the role of monetary incentives in risk preference elicitation experiments, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty (forthcoming). Laudenbach, C., Loos, B., Pirschel, J. und Wohlfart, J., 2021, The trading response of individual investors to local bankruptcies, Journal of Financial Economics, 142 (2), 928-953. Laudenbach, C., Malmendier, U. und Niessen-Ruenzi, A., 2019, Emotional Tagging and Belief Formation: The Long-Lasting Effects of Experiencing Communism, AEA Papers and Proceedings, 109, 567–571.

News from the research center

Event
20.03.2026 | Frankfurt am Main

40 Jahre Schengen-Raum

Colloquium

Der 1984 geschlossene Schengen-Vertrag schuf einen heute 29 Staaten umfassenden Raum ohne Binnengrenzen, doch Migration über die Außengrenzen führte zuletzt zur Wiedereinführung von Kontrollen, auch durch die Bundesregierung ab 8. Mai 2025. Das Walter Hallstein-Kolloquium diskutiert die rechtliche Zulässigkeit, wirtschaftliche Folgen insbesondere für Arbeitsmigration und Arbeitsmarkt sowie die Zukunft des Schengen-Raums.

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News
12.02.2026

Satanist politics and the decline of reason in liberal democracies

For the last time in the winter semester 2025/26, the Research Center hosted the lecture series "Am Scheidepunkt. On the crisis of democracy". At the end, philosopher Michael Rosen from Harvard University presented his concept of "satanic politics" as a variant of the political interpretation of the world.

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News
09.02.2026

On the topicality of the concept of violence based on Camus and Derrida

Prof. Dr. Christine Abbt from the University of St. Gallen gave a lecture on democracies and the concept of violence as part of the lecture series "At the crossroads? On the crisis of democracy", she gave a lecture on democracies and the concept of violence. Under the title "Defending democracies. On the topicality of the concept of violence in Camus and Derrida", the philosopher discussed forms of violence and revolt and categorized them with regard to a democratic setting.

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Publication
04.02.2026 | Journal article

New Perspectives on Trust in International Conflicts

Wille, Tobias; Simon, Hendrik; Daase, Christopher; Deitelhoff, Nicole; Wheeler, Nicholas J.; Holmes, Marcus; Rathbun, Brian C.; Acharya, Amitav; Mitzen, Jennifer (2026): „New Perspectives on Trust in International Conflicts“. In: International Studies Review 28 (1), viaf027.

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News
02.02.2026

States competing for people - David Owen on civil geopolitics

As part of the lecture series "At the Crossroads - The Future of Democracy", David Owen from the University of Southampton presented his concept of civil geopolitics.

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News
20.01.2026

Christine Hentschel on reorientation in catastrophic times

As part of the lecture series "At the crossroads? On the crisis of democracy", the sociologist spoke about living in and dealing with catastrophic times. Against the backdrop of the destruction of living conditions, wars, permanent crises and threats to democracy, Hentschel addressed the infiltration of the catastrophic into everyday social life and a changing activist and literary approach to the future.

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Publication
08.01.2026 | Journal article

Gender Differences in Financial Advice

Bucher-Koenen, Tabea; Hackethal, Andreas; Koenen, Johannes; Laudenbach, Christine (2025): „Gender Differences in Financial Advice“. In: American Economic Review, 115 (12), pp. 4218–4252.

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Publication
19.12.2025 | Anthology

Faszination und Freiheit 

Günther, Klaus; Zabel, Benno (Hrsg.) (2025): Faszination und Freiheit - Gegenwartsdiagnosen im Anschluss an Christoph Menkes Theorie der Befreiung, Weilerswist (Velbrück Wissenschaft).

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Publication
12.12.2025 | Anthology

Zwischen Transformation und Abolitionismus. Das Strafrecht und die Vielfalt der Alternativen

Tobias Singelnstein, Christoph Burchard (2025)

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