Finance and Corporate Governance

Academic CV

Prof. Dr. Peter Limbach joined the University of Bielefeld in May 2021 as Professor of Finance and Corporate Governance. He holds a German Diploma (equivalent to MSc) in economics from the University of Bonn and a PhD (Dr. rer. pol.) in finance from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (supervisors: Martin Ruckes, Werner F.M. De Bondt). He spent several months at the Rotterdam School of Management as a visiting PhD. After his PhD, Peter was a postdoctoral researcher at the KIT before joining the University of Cologne as the CFR Junior-Professor of Investments in 2016. In 2020, he substituted the Professorship Financial Economics (Prof. Dr. Isabel Schnabel) at the University of Bonn. Peter has considerable teaching experience at all levels, including MBA and PhD courses. He was awarded the Junior Teaching Award of the Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences of the University of Cologne. Peter is also a research fellow of the Centre for Financial Research (CFR), Cologne. His research papers have been published in leading scientific journals – including Management Science, the Accounting Review, the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, and the Journal of Corporate Finance – and have been accepted for presentation at top academic conferences, such as the annual meetings of the Western Finance Association and the Financial Intermediation Research Society. Peter also organizes one of Europe’s leading virtual research seminars. Since 2022, Peter serves as co-editor of Management Review Quarterly.