Marc Oliver Rieger

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Marc Oliver Rieger
Born (1974-09-22) September 22, 1974 (age 49)
EducationMax Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences
Occupation(s)Mathematician and finance academic

Marc Oliver Rieger (born September 22, 1974) is a German mathematician and finance professor. His research covers the areas of behavioural finance, decision and game theory, financial derivatives, and calculus of variation.

Together with Thorsten Hens and Mei Wang, he was one of the authors of the INTRA survey (International Test on Risk Attitudes) that collected risk and time preferences in 53 countries worldwide leading to various follow-up studies by other researchers and practitioners and media coverage by leading newspapers in Germany and elsewhere.[1][2][3][4][5]

Biography[edit]

Rieger is Professor of Banking and Finance at the University of Trier, Germany, since 2010,[6] and Director of the Confucius Institute of the University of Trier since 2018.[7] In 2018, he was also adjunct professor at National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan and in 2019 guest professor at the University of Zurich.[8] Since 2019, he is core member of the research group "Quantitative Finance and Risk Analysis",[9] and project leader of the research cluster "Globalization and Re-Nationalization,"[10] both financed by the research initiative of the state of Rheinland-Pfalz.

Rieger studied mathematics at University of Konstanz from 1993 to 1998, and obtained a PhD at Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig, in 2001, under the supervision of Stefan Müller. He worked as research scholar and postdoc at Carnegie Mellon University, Scuola Normale Superiore, University of Zürich and ETH Zürich.

Selected publications[edit]

INTRA survey[edit]

Books[edit]

  • Financial Economics: A concise Introduction to Classical and Behavioural Finance by Thorsten Hens and Marc O Rieger, Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, Deutschland, 2nd edition (2016). ISBN 978-3-662-49688-6
  • Cultural Finance by Thorsten Hens, Marc Oliver Rieger, and Mei Wang, World Scientific. ISBN 978-981-121-976-4

Other topics[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Die Geduldsprobe" Süddeutschen Zeitung, 2. March, 2016
  2. ^ "Kaum scharf aufs schnelle Geld: Deutsche sind in Geldfragen am geduldigsten?" Frankfurter Allgemeine (FAZ), 12. January, 2016
  3. ^ "Sparen statt Kredit: Sind die Deutschen das geduldigste Volk?" Wirtschafts Woche, 6. January, 2016
  4. ^ "Die Angst vor Verlusten" Süddeutschen Zeitung, 14. May, 2014
  5. ^ "Three behavioral biases that can affect your investment performance" forbes.com, 21 December 2011.
  6. ^ "Home". Uni Trier. Retrieved 21 May 2019.
  7. ^ "Unser Team". Uni Trier. Retrieved 21 May 2019.
  8. ^ "Prof. Dr. Marc Oliver Rieger". Bf.uzh.ch. Retrieved 21 May 2019.
  9. ^ "Willkommen". Uni Trier. Retrieved 21 May 2019.
  10. ^ "Teilprojekt". Uni Trier. Retrieved 21 May 2019.