Prof. Dr. Uwe Walz
Program Area:
Financial Intermediation, Law and Finance, Data Center
Position:
Member of the Management Board, Senior Researcher
Institution:
SAFE/Goethe UniversityKey Research Topic(s):
Venture Capital and Private Equity, Small Enterprise Financing, Financing Innovation, Corporate FinanceUwe Walz is Deputy Scientific Director of the Leibniz Institute for Financial Reserach SAFE and professor of economics at Goethe University Frankfurt. Prior to holding the Chair of Industrial Organization at Goethe University, he was a professor of economics at the University of Bochum (1995-1997) and the University of Tuebingen (1997-2002). Furthermore, he was a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics and at the University of California, Berkeley. In his current main research, he focuses on private equity, start-up and growth finance, and innovation economics.
- Selected Publications
- SAFE Working Papers
- Ongoing Projects
Researcher Project Funded by Status Project Duration Publication Count Dennis Gram, Alexander Hillert, Ina Krapp, Marius Liebald, Uwe Walz German Historical Firm-Level Accounting Database SAFE Ongoing 2022 1 Dennis Gram, Ina Krapp, Uwe Walz BERD@NFDI (NFDI for Business, Economic and Related Data) DFG Ongoing 2023 1
- Completed Projects
Researcher Project Funded by Status Project Duration Publication Count David Heller, Jan Krzyzanowski, Uwe Walz Financing Innovation in Europe European Patent Office (EPO) Completed 2017 1 Horst Entorf, Dennis Gram, Lennart Kraft, Uwe Risch, Uwe Walz Financial Data Repository (FiF) DFG Completed 2018 1 Douglas Cumming, Christian Eufinger, Andrej Gill, David Heller, Jan Krzyzanowski, Uwe Walz Banking Structure and Dynamics of Small and Medium Sized Enterprises LOEWE Completed 2016 1 Fabian Brandt, Stephanie Collet, Pantelis Karapanagiotis, Wolfgang König, Alexander Peukert, Lukas Manuel Ranft, Uwe Risch, Helmut Siekmann, Uwe Walz, Julian Zimara Historical High-Quality Company-Level Data for Europe (EURHISFIRM) EU-Horizion 2020 Completed 2018 1 Andrej Gill, Marius Liebald, Uwe Walz The Dynamics of (De-)Listing Decisions – The Impact of Regulatory Changes and Economic Policy Events in Germany 1870-1933 LOEWE Completed 2017 1