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Thorsten Hens

German economist and finance academic (born 1961) Thorsten Hens

Thorsten Hens (born December 19, 1961) is a German economist and finance academic. According to the Handelsblatt ranking, Hens is among the top 10 economics professors in the German-speaking area (Germany, Switzerland and Austria).

Contents

  • 1 Biography
  • 2 Books
  • 3 Other selected publications
  • 4 External links

Biography

Hens is Swiss Finance Ins*ute Professor of Financial Economics and director of the Swiss Banking Ins*ute at the University of Zürich, Switzerland as well as a Fellow of Centre for Economic Policy Research and an Adjunct Professor of Finance at the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration in Bergen.

His research areas are—among others—evolutionary and behavioral finance. In researching how investors make their decisions, Professor Hens draws on work in Psychology and applies insights from Biology in order to understand the dynamics of financial markets. He was one of the pioneers of evolutionary finance and cultural finance, where he conducted the first large-scale international test on risk- and time at*udes (INTRA).

His consulting experience includes application of Behavioral finance for Private Banking and evolutionary finance for *et management.

He studied at the University of Bonn and at DELTA in Paris, and previously held professorships at Stanford University and at the University of Bielefeld.

Books

  • Financial Economics: A concise Introduction to Cl*ical and Behavioural Finance by Thorsten Hens and Marc O Rieger, Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, Deutschland (2010)
  • Handbook of Financial Markets: Dynamics and Evolution by Thorsten Hens and Klaus Reiner Schenk-Hoppé, North Holland (2009), ISBN:978-0-12-374258-2
  • Grundzüge der *ytischen Mikroökonomie by Thorsten Hens and Paolo Pamini, Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, Deutschland (2008), ISBN:978-3-540-28157-3
  • Behavioral Finance for Private Banking by Thorsten Hens and Kremena Bachmann, Wiley Finance (2008), ISBN:978-0-470-77999-6
  • Grundzüge der *ytischen Makroökonomie by Thorsten Hens and Carlo Strub, Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, Deutschland (2004), ISBN:3-540-20082-7
  • General Equilibrium Foundations of Finance by Thorstens Hens and Beate Pilgrim, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, the Netherlands (2003)

Other selected publications

  • Evstigneev, I. V., Hens, T. and Schenk-Hoppé, K. R. (2002), MARKET SELECTION OF FINANCIAL TRADING STRATEGIES: GLOBAL STABILITY. Mathematical Finance, 12: 329–339.
  • Rieger, M. Wang, M. and Hens, T.: Risk Preferences Around the World, Management Science 2015, 61:3 , 637-648

External links

  • Homepage of Thorsten Hens
  • Homepage of the University of Zurich
  • Homepage of Behavioural Finance Solutions