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Director

Professor Dr. Jan Pieter Krahnen

Jan P. Krahnen teaches Corporate Finance at the School of Business and Economics, House of Finance, Goethe University in Frankfurt and is Director of the Center for Financial Studies (CFS) since 1995.

He holds degrees of the Goethe University and the Free University (Berlin), and has taught in Berlin, Giessen and Cologne. He was a Visiting Professor at the University of Pennsylvania’a Wharton School and at NYU’s Stern School.

Krahnen is a CEPR-Fellow, a member of the Steering Committee of the ECB-CFS research network “Capital markets and financial integration in Europe”, and Vice-President of the European Finance Association. His current research interests focus on risk transfer in securitization markets, and on implications of the financial turmoil for banking institutions and market regulation. Other work is on relationship lending and market microstructure.

His most recent publications appeared in the Review of Economic Studies, the Journal of Financial Intermediation, the Journal of Banking and Finance, and Experimental Economics. He has served on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Banking and Finance, and the Journal of Financial Services Research and the Journal of Financial Stability. Jan Krahnen has been involved in policy counselling on issues of development finance and financial market regulation, most recently as a member of the Issing-Commission, advising the German government on banking regulation and the G-20 meetings.