Center for Financial Studies
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The Center for Financial Studies (CFS ), headquartered in Frankfurt am Main is affiliated to the Goethe- University Research Institute. It operates internationally oriented research on financial markets, financial intermediaries and monetary economics, and is committed to financial market issues in policy advice.
The Center for Financial Studies is headed by the President Otmar Issing, and the Managing Directors Michael Haliassos, Jan Pieter Krahnen and Uwe Walz. The Board as chairman of the association, Dr. Rolf -E. Breuer held.
Research
The spectrum of activities currently comprises five research areas, which are each headed by a program director. On the resulting research projects, both renowned scholars ( Fellows ) work with from home and abroad, the Center for Financial Studies regularly visit, as well as the academic staff of the CFS. The research results will be presented at international conferences and published in international journals or as CFS Working Paper.
Dialogue
The Center for Financial Studies regularly organizes international conferences, colloquia, scientific forums and lectures on financial market issues and promotes the dialogue between science and practice. In addition, the CFS involved in international research networks, cooperating as a German partner with international research centers.
CFS Index
The CFS - Index is a new instrument for measuring the value-added contribution of the financial industry in Germany. It was created in cooperation of industry, science and politics. Since the beginning of 2007, the Center for Financial Studies online survey of 500 executives through Germany. The survey is the aggregation of judgments and expectations of key members of the financial center of Germany. In addition, there are special issues dedicated to current events in business and politics.
German Bank Prize in Financial Economics
Since 2005, the CFS awards in partnership with Goethe - University, endowed with 50,000 Euro German Bank Prize in Financial Economics, will be honored with the outstanding contribution to the fields of finance, monetary economics or macroeconomics.
History
On the 50th anniversary of the Goethe University Frankfurt in 1964 donated banks, especially private bankers, as well as the Frankfurt Stock Exchange for the re-establishment of a research institute. 1967, it was incorporated under the name Institute of Capital Market Research ( IFK ), 1968 it began its work. The Institute is today eV for capital market research supported by the simultaneously launched company, as one of its more than 80 members, particularly banking, insurance, consulting and industrial companies. The Institute is funded through donations and membership fees. At the time of its inception, it was the first research institute in Germany, devoted exclusively to the problems of the capital market. 1996 the Institute received the additional name Center for Financial Studies, in order to express the increasingly international nature of the research activities. Since 2001, it operates only under this name. In 2005, the CFS awarded for the first time together with the Goethe University in Frankfurt the " German Bank Prize in Financial Economics ". From premises in the Hesse state central bank, the Institute moved in 2005 to a building at the Goethe University, 2008, moved into the newly built House of Finance at Campus Westend. Since 2006, the former chief economist of the European Central Bank, Otmar Issing, president of CFS. Among the directors of the IFK and the CFS included, among others Karlshäuser, Bernd Rudolph, Axel Weber and Volker Wieland.