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

News
30.06.2025

Article "Ideology and Suffering: What Is Realistic about Critical Theory?" by Amadeus Ulrich published in EJPT

The article "Ideology and Suffering: What Is Realistic about Critical Theory?" by Amadeus Ulrich has just been published open access in the European Journal of Political Theory (EJPT). Ulrich brings the perspective of radical realism into a productive dialog with Adorno's critical theory.

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30.06.2025

Prof. Dr. Franziska Fay awarded the Sibylle Kalkhof-Rose University Prize 2025

Prof. Dr. Franziska Fay (Junior Professor of Ethnology with a focus on Political Anthropology at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) and former postdoctoral researcher at the Research Center Normative Orders at Goethe University) receives the Sibylle Kalkhof-Rose University Award 2025 in the category Humanities and Social Sciences.

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Publication
25.06.2025 | Online article

Ideology and Suffering: What Is Realistic about Critical Theory?

Ulrich, Amadeus (2025): Ideology and suffering: What is realistic about critical theory? European Journal of Political Theory, 0(0).  https://doi.org/10.1177/14748851251351782

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News
24.06.2025

New series “Vertrauensfragen” in the Frankfurter Rundschau initiated by Hendrik Simon

Democracy thrives on debate - if it serves the joint search for solutions. There is often a problem with this cooperation. The new FR series “Vertrauensfragen”, initiated by Hendrik Simon (Research Institute Social Cohesion (RISC) Frankfurt location at Goethe University's Research Centre Normative Orders ), examines why this is the case and how we can do better.

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Publication
23.06.2025 | Working Paper

Untrustworthy Authorities and Complicit Bankers: Unraveling Monetary Distrust in Argentina

Moreno, Guadalupe (2025): “Untrustworthy Authorities and Complicit Bankers: Unraveling Monetary Distrust in Argentina”. Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies Discussion Paper 25/3.

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News
22.05.2025

Does deliberative democracy have a future in the age of oligarchs, autocrats and patriarchs?

On June 3, Prof. Simone Chambers will give a lecture on the value of democracies and the future of the form of government.

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Publication
19.05.2025 | Anthology

Klimaethik. Ein Reader

Sparenborg, Lukas; Moellendorf, Darrel (Hrsg.) (2025) : Klimaethik. Ein Reader. Suhrkamp.

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19.05.2025

What can a baroque tapestry tell us about colonial iconography?

Lecture by Cécile Fromone on May 21. The professor at the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University, director of the Cooper Gallery at the Hutchins Center and author will talk about the long-forgotten African origins of iconography and its colonial dimension.

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