Uwe Walz
Management and Microeconomics
Frankfurt University
Germany
Biography
Uwe Walz received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Tuebingen in 1991 and completed his habilitation at the University of Mannheim in 1995. Prior to joining the faculty of Goethe University in October 2002 he was a Professor of Economics at the University of Bochum (1995-1997) and at the University of Tuebingen (1997-2002). Furthermore, he was a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics and at the University of California, Berkeley. Currently, he is director of the research program “Corporate Finance and Financial Markets” at the Center for Financial Studies (CFS) and one of the three directors of the Research Center SAFE (Sustainable Architecture of Finance in Europe)
Research Interest
His main current research focuses on private equity, entrepreneurial finance and contract theory as well as on the Industrial organization of financial markets.
Publications
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Cumming, D., & Walz, U. (2010). Private equity returns and disclosure around the world. Journal of International Business Studies, 41(4), 727-754.
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Hirsch, J., & Walz, U. (2011). Financing Decisions along a Firm’s Lifeâ€cycle: Debt as a Commitment Device. European Financial Management, 17(5), 898-927.
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Hirsch, J., & Walz, U. (2013). Why do contracts differ between venture capital types?. Small Business Economics, 40(3), 511-525.
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Gill, A., & Walz, U. (2016). Are VC-backed IPOs delayed trade sales?. Journal of Corporate Finance, 37, 356-374.
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Cumming, D., Walz, U., & Werth, J. C. (2016). Entrepreneurial spawning: experience, education, and exit. Financial Review, 51(4), 507-525.
