Hendrik Hakenes How Can Investment Decisions Influence Climate Change?
Hendrik Hakenes is Professor of Finance at the University of Bonn. Having completed his PhD at the University of Münster, Hakenes has also held research positions at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, the University of Minnesota and Leibniz University Hannover. Hakenes’s research focuses on banking and finance and industrial economics. An editor for Credit and Capital Markets, since 2018 Hakenes has been principal investigator on a special research project based at the University of Mannheim: “Economic Perspectives on Societal Challenges: Equality of Opportunity, Market Regulation, and Financial Stability”.
Area of Research
Finance
since 2011
Professor of Finance
University of Bonn (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn) (more details)
2008-2013
Director
of the “Hannover Center of Finance”
2007-2011
Professor of Economics
University of Hanover (Leibniz Universität Hannover)
Especially Financial Economics
2007
Guest Researcher
University of Mannheim (Universität Mannheim)
2005-2006
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Minnesota
Finance Department of the Carlson School of Management
2005
Guest Researcher
Deutsche Bundesbank, Frankfurt a.M.
2004-2007
Senior Research Fellow
Max Planck Society
Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods
2002-2004
Postdoctoral Researcher
University of Mannheim (Universität Mannheim)
Department of Economics, Chair Prof. Martin Hellwig
1998-2002
Doctoral Student and Junior Research Fellow
University of Münster (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster)
Department of Banking, Prof. Dr. Andreas Pfingsten
2001
PhD in Economics
University of Münster (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster)
Thesis “Banks as Delegated Risk Managers.”
1998
Diploma in Mathematics
University of Bonn (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn) (more details)
Thesis “Parametric Interpolation by Third Degree Polynomial Curves”
- CESifo Economic Studies
- Credit and Banking
- European Economic Review
- Journal of the European Economic Association
- Finance Research Letters
- Finnish Economic Papers
- German Economic Review
- International Economic Review
- Journal of Banking and Finance
- Journal of the European Economic Association
- Journal of Financial Intermediation
- Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics
- Journal of Money
- Kredit und Kapital
- Rand Journal of Economics
- Review of Finance
- Review of Economic Studies
- Schmalenbach Business Review
- Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaftslehre
- American Economic Association (AEA)
- European Economic Association (EEA)
- German Economic Association (VfS, especially the committee for industrial economics)
- German Academic Association for Business Research (VHB)
- German Finance Association (DGF)
- German Economic Asociation for Business Administration (GEABA)
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University of Bonn (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn)
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Institute
The Collaborative Research Center (CRC) TR 224 – EPoS
The Collaborative Research Center (CRC) TR 224 – EPoS is a cooperation between the University of Bonn and the University of Mannheim. Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), it aims to analyze and provide policy proposals that address three key societal challenges: how to promote equality of opportunity; how to regulate markets in light of the internationalization and digitalization of economic activity; and how to safeguard the stability of the financial system.
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In considering their impact on climate change, individuals naturally think about consumption. In this video, HENDRIK HAKENES argues that people need to give equal weight to their investments. Hakenes constructs a mathematical model which allows him to explore the effectiveness of different decisions around consumption and investment. Though conventional wisdom suggests that reducing consumption takes priority, the research finds that investment is just as important. Hakenes work helps people to understand how they can more effectively reduce their carbon footprint by paying more attention to investments that they may not have consciously undertaken, via pension funds and insurance for example.
LT Video Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.21036/LTPUB101029
Responsible Investment and Responsible Consumption
- Hendrik Hakenes and Eva Schliephake
- Published in 2021
