He is a regular speaker at meetings organized by, inter alia, the ECB, the European Parliament, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and Chicago, the International Monetary Fund, the FDIC and Deutsche Bundesbank. He has developed and delivered executive education programmes for major global banks and institutions. He also acts as an advisor to central banks as well as to firms in the finance industry. Prior to joining academia, Sascha Steffen worked at Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt and New York.
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Prof. Dr. Frank Ecker
started as Professor of Accounting at the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management in August 2016. His research focuses on the role of accounting information for capital market participants and has been published in top accounting journals. He also advised institutional investors on the development of trading strategies.
He earned a Bachelor’s degree in Finance at Berufsakademie Mannheim, and has an MBA and Ph.D. from University of Trier. Prior to his graduate studies, he worked for Deutsche Bank AG and DGZ Dekabank Luxembourg S.A. Before joining the Frankfurt School, Frank Ecker was an assistant professor at the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University.
Prof. Dr. Sascha Steffen
is Professor of Finance at Frankfurt School of Finance & Management. Educated at Goethe-University, Wharton and NYU, he previously taught at ESMT and Mannheim Business School. His research is in the area of banking, corporate finance and financial intermediation and has been published in the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics and Review of Financial Studies. Sascha Steffen was awarded the Lamfalussy Fellowship from the European Central Bank (ECB) and his research has been supported e.g. by The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) in Washington D.C. and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.
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