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Head of the Research Group
Prof. Dr. Oscar A. Stolper

T 06421 28-21702
E oscar.stolper@wiwi.uni-marburg.de
Am Plan 1
35032 Marburg
Office Hours:
by appointment (E-Mail)
Prof. Dr. Oscar Stolper has chaired the Behavioral Finance Research Group since 2014 and specializes in household finance, behavioral finance, and empirical capital market research. His major research focus lies on analyzing the decision behavior of private households in their role as financial market participants. Currently, he works on a research project funded by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation on the effectiveness of product information for investment funds. In another current research project funded by ZEVEDI, Prof. Dr. Stolper has joined an interdisciplinary project group headed by Prof. Dr. Katja Langenbucher (Goethe University Frankfurt) which deals with the growing challenges artificial intelligence, as a central driver of the modern financial sector, poses for the design of supervisory regulation of financial market players.
Prof. Stolper regularly collaborates with researchers from other universities such as the Copenhagen Business School (CBS) and the University of Sydney as well as institutions such as the German Central Bank, to which he has been affiliated as a visiting researcher since 2010. His work is published in renowned finance journals including the Review of Financial Studies and the Journal of Banking and Finance and has been recognized with major scientific awards such as the Review of Financial Studies Best Behavioral Paper Award. Besides, Prof. Stolper is member of various academic associations and actively contributes to an ongoing knowledge transfer in the field of finance.
Prior to joining the University of Marburg, he graduated in International Business Administration at the University of Tübingen and received his doctorate at the University of Giessen, where he had been working as a research assistant with the Chair of Financial Services (Prof. Andreas Walter) since 2009. His dissertation project was awarded a fellowship of the Stiftung Kapitalmarktforschung für den Finanzstandort Deutschland.
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• Household and Behavioral Finance
• Mutual Funds and Fund Managers – funded by the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung
• Empirical Capital Market ResearchInhalt ausklappen Inhalt einklappen Selected PublicationsSelected Publications
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2021 Financial support of the research project "Künstliche Intelligenz und Finance – Innovation, Resilienz und Verantwortung" by Zentrum verantwortungsbewusste Digitalisierung (ZEVEDI) 2020 Intergenerational Justice Prize for “Mind the gap: inheritance and inequality in retirement wealth” (Intergenerational Justice Review 6(2), 63-72) 2020 Financial support of the research project "Mutual fund information disclosure: regulatory compliance, signaling, and investor response" by Fritz Thyssen Stiftung 2019 Best Behavioral Finance Paper Award for “Birds of a Feather: The Impact of Homophily on the Propensity to Follow Financial Advice” (Review of Financial Studies 32(2), 524-563) 2019 Best Research Award of the Department of Business & Economics at University of Marburg 2018 Best Teaching Award (Bachelor) of the Department of Business & Economics at University of Marburg 2017 Best Research Award of the Department of Business & Economics at University of Marburg 2010 -
2013Ph.D. scholarship granted by Stiftung Kapitalmarktforschung für den Finanzstandort Deutschland Inhalt ausklappen Inhalt einklappen Additional ActivitiesAdditional Activities
Participation in the Scientific Advisory Board of the Working Committee on Financial Analysis for Private Households (NA 159-02-15 AA), Services Standards Committee (NADL) of the German Institute for Standardization (DIN) Member of the research group Nordic Finance and the Good Society of the Copenhagen Business School (CBS) Activity as consultant for the German Research Foundation (DFG), Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money as well as for numerous scientific conferences Member of the Corporate and Household Finance Research Group and the Securities Holdings Statistics (SHS) Network of the Deutsche Bundesbank Member of the Wissenschaftliche Kommission Bankbetriebslehre/Finanzierung (WK BA-FI) of the Verband der Hochschullehrer für Betriebswirtschaftslehre (VHB) Member of the Advisory Board for Research Data Management at the Philipps-Universität Marburg