Benjamin M. Friedman, William Joseph Maier Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University, will be the first Visiting Professor of Financial History at the House of Finance. He will hold the new visiting chair financed by Metzler Bank and the Edmond de Rothschild Group on the occasion of Goethe University's centennial. The aim of this chair is to strengthen the field of financial history at Goethe University in cooperation with the Institut für Bankhistorische Forschung and SAFE.
In the context of this visiting professorship distinguished experts in banking and financial history from Germany and abroad will be invited to share their research output and methods with researchers, students and the interested public in Frankfurt. The professorship is the first of its kind at an economics faculty of a German university.
Professor Friedman will come to Frankfurt for the summer term 2015.
