Prof. Dr. Andreas Hackethal
Andreas Hackethal heads the research area “Household Finance” at Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE and holds a professorship at Goethe University in Frankfurt. He joined Goethe’s Faculty of Economics and Business Administration in 2008 and served as its Dean from 2011 to 2015 and as its Dean of Programs from 2015 to 2020. His empirical research is on individual financial behavior, financial advice and pension finance. His work was published in the Journal of Finance, the Review of Financial Studies and the Review of Finance. He chairs the advisory council to the German Financial Supervisory Authority BAFIN and is a member of the Exchange Experts Commission (advising the German Federal Ministry of Finance) and of the working group consulting ESMA’s Financial Innovation Standing Committee. He co-founded Frankfurt’s Techquartier.com and heads the University’s startup center. He won over twenty teaching awards, was awarded the title “German Professor of the Year” by the student magazine unicum in 2010 and is regularly interviewed by leading national and international media such as the Financial Times, Le Monde, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, ARD and ZDF.
- Selected Publications
Author/s Title Program Area Published Andreas Hackethal, Steffen Meyer, Charline Uhr Smoking Hot Portfolios? Overtrading from Self-Control Failure
Journal of Empirical FinanceHousehold Finance 2021 Konstantin Bräuer, Andreas Hackethal, Tobin Hanspal Consuming Dividends
forthcoming in Review of Financial StudiesHousehold Finance 2022 Andreas Hackethal, Tobin Hanspal, Dominique Lammer, Kevin Rink The Characteristics and Portfolio Behavior of Bitcoin Investors: Evidence from Indirect Cryptocurrency Investments
forthcoming in Review of FinanceHousehold Finance 2022 Ester Faia, Andreas Hackethal, Michael Haliassos, Katja Langenbucher Financial Regulation: A Transatlantic Perspective
Cambridge University PressHousehold Finance, Macro Finance 2015 Andreas Hackethal Financial Advice
Financial Regulation: A Transatlantic Perspective (Cambridge University Press)Household Finance 2015
- SAFE Working Papers
- SAFE Policy Publications
- Ongoing Projects
- Completed Projects
Researcher Project Funded by Status Project Duration Publication Count Konstantin Bräuer, Andreas Hackethal, Christine Laudenbach, Steffen Meyer, Thomas Pauls, Annika Weber Investor Characteristics and Long-Term Financial Decision Making LOEWE Completed 2018 1 Andreas Hackethal, Benjamin Loos, Steffen Meyer, Charline Uhr Same Bank, Same Clients but Different Pricing: How do Flat-Fees for Mutual Funds Affect Retail Investor Portfolios? Think Forward Initiative Completed 2020 1 Hector Calvo-Pardo, Chryssi Giannitsarou, Andreas Hackethal, Michael Haliassos, Thomas Jansson, Yigitcan Karabulut, Orcun Kaya Implications of Financial Market Imperfections for Wealth and Debt Accumulation in the Household Sector DFG Completed 2013 1