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

Publication
08.01.2026 | Journal article

The rural-urban divide in Europe

Riera, Pedro; Roßteutscher, Sigrid (Hrsg.) (2025): „The rural-urban divide in Europe: Assessing its impact on political attitudes and voting behavior“. In: Electoral Studies, Special Issue.

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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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News
11.12.2025

Jonathan White on future thinking in democracies

On the second date of the lecture series "At the crossroads? On the crisis of democracy". Political scientist White discusses views on the future of democracies. A follow-up report

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News
04.12.2025

The crisis of democratic theory from a sociological perspective

Sociologist Jenny Brichzin's lecture "Crisis of Democratic Theory? A sociological intervention" opened our lecture series "At the crossroads? On the future of democratic theory". The sociologist criticized the fact that social coexistence has so far been insufficiently addressed in democratic theory. A follow-up report

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Publication
03.12.2025 | Journal article

The Archipelago Capitalism of Citizenship-By-Investment

Džankić, Jelena; Seyfettinoglu, Mira; Shachar, Ayelet; Vink, Maarten; Baaren, Luuk van der (2025): „The Archipelago Capitalism of Citizenship-By-Investment“. In: Comparative Political Studies, OnlineFirst.

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Publication
01.12.2025

Non-Fiction Cinema in Postwar Europe

Hediger, Vinzenz (2025): „Preface: (Re)Building Europe through Cinema (Studies)”. In: Cesalkova, Lucia, et al. (eds.): Non-Fiction Cinema in Postwar Europe. Visual Culture and the Reconstruction of Public Space. Amsterdam University Press.

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Publication
21.11.2025 | Chapter

Die Möglichkeiten des Einsatzes von Multi-Party-Computation beim Datenaustausch zwischen Sicherheitsbehörden als Grundlage der Qualitätssicherung von KI-Anwendungen

Müllmann, Dirk; Spiecker gen. Döhmann, Indra (2025): „Die Möglichkeiten des Einsatzes von Multi-Party-Computation beim Datenaustausch zwischen Sicherheitsbehörden als Grundlage der Qualitätssicherung von KI-Anwendungen“. In: Honekamp, Wilfried; Kemme, Stefanie; Struck, Jens: Auswirkungen von Künstlicher Intelligenz auf die zukünftige Polizeiarbeit. Springer.

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Publication
21.11.2025 | Chapter

Die Sicherheit der Zukunft – Künstliche Intelligenz und soziale Kontrolle: Vom Predictive Policing zum Social Scoring

Singelnstein, Tobias (2025): „Die Sicherheit der Zukunft – Künstliche Intelligenz und soziale Kontrolle: Vom Predictive Policing zum Social Scoring“. In: Honekamp, Wilfried; Kemme, Stefanie; Struck, Jens: Auswirkungen von Künstlicher Intelligenz auf die zukünftige Polizeiarbeit. Springer.

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Publication
21.11.2025 | Anthology

Handbook of Leadership. Applied Business Psychology for Managers

Felfe, Jörg; Dick, Rolf van (eds.) (2025): Handbook of Leadership. Applied Business Psychology for Managers. Springer.

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