Institute for Endowment Management and Entrepreneurial Finance

Areas of focus

• Research

  Research performed by members of the IFEE covers a range of topics such as human capital in startups, crowdfunding, as well as endowment management at universities. This research has appeared in top tier academic journals such as Management Science, Organization Science, and Science. Research insights are diffused widely to practitioners and policy makers and have been covered by media such as the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and der Spiegel.

• Teaching

  IFEE faculty offer courses and seminars in entrepreneurship, finance, as well as endowment management. Members of the IFEE are leading the Portfolio Management Program (PMP) at ESMT, which gives students the unique opportunity to build knowledge and skills in asset management and finance. The PMP has dedicated space at ESMT’s entrepreneurial Campus in Berlin Schöneberg, where students have access to professional tools such as Bloomberg terminals as well as collaboration spaces.

• Practice

  The IFEE initiates and co-sponsors a range of activities that connect research and practice such as conferences and workshops. In addition, the IFEE closely interacts with SpaceShack, a public co-working space at ESMT’s campus in Berlin Schöneberg. SpaceShack gives ESMT students access to resources to develop their entrepreneurial ideas and stimulates IFEE research activities.

• Summer 2018: Michael Weber

   

  

  Associate Professor of Finance and Cohen and Keenoy Faculty Scholar, Booth School of Business, The University of Chicago

   

  Michael Weber joined Chicago Booth in 2014 as an assistant professor of finance and was promoted to associate professor in 2018. He is also a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research in the Monetary Economics and Asset Pricing groups, a member of the Macro Finance Society, and a research affiliate at the CESifo Research Network. His research interests include asset pricing, macroeconomics, international finance, and household finance. His work on downside risk in currency markets and other asset classes earned the 2013 AQR Insight Award. He has published in leading economics and finance journals such as the American Economic Review, the Review of Economic Studies, and the Journal of Financial Economics.

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