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
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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News
20.11.2025

Voluntary or compulsory? Military service, peace and democratic responsibility

Review of the 58th "Römerberggespräche". The topic of compulsory military service and the question of what a democratic state is allowed to demand of its citizens were at the center of the 58th "Römerberggespräche" "Conditionally ready for action? Military service and the duty to serve the state", which took place on November 15 in cooperation with the Research Centre Normative Orders in the Chagallsaal at Schauspiel Frankfurt.

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News
13.11.2025

Goethe Lecture Offenbach on ableist discrimination

Regina Schidel presented a critique of ableist discrimination as part of the Goethe Lectures Offenbach. In her lecture "I can, therefore I am? / Ich kann, also bin ich?", she discusses the practical manifestations and philosophical origins of ableism.

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Event
10.02.2026 | Frankfurt am Main

Satanic Politics. Democracy after Liberalism

Lecture, Lecture Series

Lecture by Michael Rosen (Harvard University) as part of the lecture series "At the Crossroads? On the crisis of democracy" in the winter semester 2025/2026

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Event
04.02.2026 | Frankfurt am Main

Demokratien verteidigen. Zur Aktualität des Gewaltbegriffs bei Camus und Derrida

Lecture Series, Lecture

Vortrag von Christine Abbt (Universität St. Gallen) im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung "Am Scheidepunkt? Zur Krise der Demokratie" im Wintersemester 2025/2026

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Event
29.01.2026

Civil Geopolitics and the Dilemmas of the Democratic State

Lecture Series, Lecture

Vortrag von David Owen (Universtiy of Southampton) im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung "Am Scheidepunkt? Zur Krise der Demokratie" im Wintersemester 2025/2026

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Event
14.01.2026 | Frankfurt am Main

Vom Retten der Welt zum Vorbereiten auf den Kollaps: Neuorientierungen in katastrophischen Zeiten

Lecture Series, Lecture

Vortrag von Christine Hentschel (Universität Hamburg) im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung "Am Scheidepunkt? Zur Krise der Demokratie" im Wintersemester 2025/2026

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Event
10.12.2025 | Frankfurt am Main

How Democracy Relies on the Future

Lecture Series, Lecture

Vortrag von Jonathan White (LSE) im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung "Am Scheidepunkt? Zur Krise der Demokratie" im Wintersemester 2025/2026

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Event
27./28.11.2025 | Frankfurt am Main

Reconsidering Legal Subjectivity In and Through the Anthropocene

Conference

Internationale Konferenz organisiert vom Wissenschaftsnetzwerk Recht im Anthropozän (RiA) in Kooperation mit dem Forschungszentrum Normative Ordnungen.

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