Christine Laudenbach is professor for Household Finance at the Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE. Before, she held a professorship in Finance at the University of Bonn and was previously a postdoctoral researcher at the Goethe University in Frankfurt and the University of Mannheim, where she received her Ph.D. in 2012. Research visits took her to the University of Washington, Seattle, and Columbia University, New York.
In her research, she focuses on how decisions of private households can be influenced and improved through financial education, financial counseling, or innovative tools that provide self-help assistance. Her work has been published in international academic journals such as the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, and Management Science.