Florian Barth

Dr. Florian Barth

Former research assistant
Lange Gasse 20
90403 Nuremberg
Germany
Research Areas

Empirical Finance, Performance Analysis, Fixed Income

Short CV
  • November 2018: Dissertation „Empirical essays on corporate bond and credit default swap markets“
  • Since June 2014: Research assistant and doctoral candidate, Chair of Finance and Banking, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg
  • 2014: Master of Science in Business Administration, University of Passau, topic of thesis „Evaluation and risk analysis of executive stock options“
  • 2011-2014: Studies in Business Administration, University of Passau
  • 2012: Studies abroad at Oulu Business School, Oulu, Finland
  • 2011: Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, University of Passau, topic of thesis „Evaluation of intellectual property according to IDW S5 as part of IFRS 3“
  • 2008-2011: Studies in Business Administration and Economics, University of Passau, majors: Accounting, Finance and Taxation
  • 2009-2013: Internships (among others: Ernst & Young, Transaction Advisory; Deloitte Consulting, CFO-Services)
Miscellaneous
Articles in Refereed Journals
  • ESG and corporate credit spreads
    Journal of Risk Finance, Vol. 23 (2), 2022, 169-190. (with Benjamin Hübel and Hendrik Scholz)
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    Conference presentations:
    • 26th Annual Meeting of the German Finance Association, Poster Session, Essen, Germany, Sep 27-28, 2019
    • 18th International Conference on Credit Risk Evaluation, Venice, Italy, Sep 26-27, 2019
    • 10th CEQURA Conference on Advances in Financial and Insurance Risk Management, Munich, Germany, Sep 23-24, 2019
    • 2nd Annual Conference of the Global Research Alliance for Sustainable Finance and Investment (GRASFI), Ph.D. Workshop, University of Oxford, UK, Sep 03-05, 2019
    • Summer School on Sustainable Finance, Joint Research Center of the European Commission, Ispra, Italy, July 01-03, 2019
    • 36th Annual Conference of the French Finance Association, Ph.D. Workshop, Québec, Canada, June 17, 2019
    • Research seminar, University of Groningen, Netherlands, March 20, 2019
  • Spillover effects from the Volkswagen emissions scandal: An analysis of stock and corporate bond markets
    Schmalenbach Journal of Business Reserch, forthcoming. (with Christian Eckert, Nadine Gatzert and Hendrik Scholz)
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    Accepted for presentation:
    • 2018 Annual Meeting of the American Risk and Insurance Association in Chicago, 05 – 08 August, 2018.
    • 80. Pfingsttagung des Verbandes der Hochschullehrer für Betriebswirtschaft, Magdeburg, May 23 – 25, 2018.
    • Eastern Finance Association 2018 Annual Meetings, Philadelphia, April 11 – 14, 2018.
  • Momentum in the European corporate bond market: The role of bond-specific returns
    Journal of Fixed Income, Vol. 27 (3), 2018, S. 54-70. (with Hendrik Scholz and Matthias Stegmeier)
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    Accepted for presentation:
    • Multinational Finance Society 2016 Annual Conference, Stockholm, June 26 – 29, 2016.
    • 14th HypoVereinsbank-UniCredit Group Doctoral Seminar Southern Germany, Ammersee, June 03 – 04, 2016.
    • Eastern Finance Association 2016 Annual Meetings, Baltimore, April 06 – 09, 2016.
    • Southwestern Finance Association 2016 Annual Conference, Oklahoma City, March 09 – 12, 2016.