Jörg Rocholl
President, Professor of Finance, ESMT Berlin
Jörg Rocholl has been the president of ESMT since July 2011. He joined ESMT in July of 2007 as an associate professor. In July 2010 he was promoted to professor and awarded the first EY Chair in Governance and Compliance, which he held until June 2019. In September 2010 he was named as the associate dean of faculty and in April 2011, dean of faculty. Jörg holds both his PhD in Finance and Economics and his MPhil from Columbia Business School and received his “Diplom-Ökonom mit Auszeichnung” (Economics degree with distinction) from the Witten/Herdecke University in Germany.
Jörg’s research interests are in the areas of Corporate Finance, Corporate Governance, and Financial Intermediation. His research has been accepted for publication in leading academic journals such as the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, and the Review of Financial Studies.
Jörg is the vice-chair of the economic advisory board of the German Federal Ministry of Finance and also the vice chairman of the economic advisory board of Deutsche Welle. He is also a research professor at the Ifo Institute in Munich and Duisenberg Fellow of the European Central Bank (ECB). He has worked with Boston Consulting Group in Frankfurt and London and Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt and New York. Furthermore, he has been a visiting researcher at the Bundesbank’s Economic Research Center in Frankfurt. Jörg received the Distinguished CESifo Affiliate Award and was awarded the Lamfalussy Fellowship from the European Central Bank. He has received several research grants from Columbia Business School, Kenan-Flagler Business School, and the FDIC; the Weatherspoon Teaching Award at Kenan-Flagler Business School; and a grant from the Westphal Foundation to conduct research in Kuala Lumpur and Hong Kong.
Jörg’s research has been portrayed in leading international media such as New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Financial Times, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Handelsblatt, and Börsen-Zeitung. He appears regularly as an expert on ARD, ZDF, and Deutsche Welle TV.
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- PhD in Finance and Economics, Columbia Business School
- MPhil in Finance and Economics, Columbia Business School
- Dipl.-Ök. in Economics, Universität Witten/Herdecke
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- Papers & reports
Adverse incentives in crowdfunding
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- Presentations
Flight to Where? Evidence from Bank Investments During the Financial Crisis
Thomas Hildebrand, Jörg Rocholl, Alexander Schulz, 7th FIRS Annual Conference, Minneapolis, June 2012Thomas Hildebrand, Jörg Rocholl and Alexander Schulz presented at the 7th FIRS Annual Conference, Minneapolis, 1-4 June 2012
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Skin in the Game: Evidence from the Online Social Lending Market
Thomas Hildebrand, Jörg Rocholl, Manju Puri, European Finance Association (EFA), Stockholm, August 2011Thomas Hildebrand, Jörg Rocholl and Manju Puri presented at the 38th Annual Meeting of the European Finance Association, organised by Stockholm School of Economics (SSE), the Institute for Financial Research (SIFR) and Fisher College of Business, The Ohio State University, was held at Clarion Sign Hotel, Stockholm, Sweden on 17-20 August 2011.
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Skin in the Game: Evidence from the Online Social Lending Market
Thomas Hildebrand, Jörg Rocholl, Manju Puri, American Economic Association (AEA), Denver, January 2011Thomas Hildebrand, Jörg Rocholl and Manju Puri presented at the AEA 2011 Annual Meeting, Denver, 7-9 January 2011
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Skin in the Game: The Incentive Structure in Online Social Lending
Thomas Hildebrand, Jörg Rocholl, Manju Puri, Financial Management Association (FMA), New York, with Manju Puri and Jörg RochollOctober 2010, October 2010Thomas Hildebrand, Jörg Rocholl and Manju Puri presented at the Financial Management Association (FMA) in New York in October 2010
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Skin in the Game in the Originate-to-Distribute Model: Evidence from the Online Social Lending Market
Thomas Hildebrand, Jörg Rocholl, Manju Puri, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Finanzwirtschaft (DGF), Hamburg, October 2010Thomas Hildebrand, Jörg Rocholl and Manju Puri presented at the 17th Annual Meeting of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Finanzwirtschaft (DGF) in Hamburg on 8-9 October 2010
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Skin in the Game: The Incentive Structure in Online Social Lending
Thomas Hildebrand, Jörg Rocholl, Manju Puri, 45th Annual Conference of the Western Finance Association (WFA), Victoria, June 2010Thomas Hildebrand, Jörg Rocholl and Manju Puri presented at the 45th Annual Conference on 20-23 June 2010.