Ernst-Ludwig von Thadden

Ernst-Ludwig von Thadden is professor of economics and finance at the University of Mannheim (Germany). He holds a PhD in economics from the University of Bonn and an MPhil from the London School of Economics.

He was full professor of economics at the University of Lausanne (Switzerland) from 1995-2004 and has held visiting faculty positions at Stanford University (CA), Università Tor Vergata (Rome), the London School of Economics, and Imperial College, London. He was Resident Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Stanford (CA), council member of the European Economic Association, and has held the Bertil Danielsson Distinguished Visiting Chair at the Stockholm School of Economics (Sweden).

He is a member of the Heidelberg Academy of Arts and Sciences and fellow of the European Economic Association. He has served on several boards of scientific journals, the Advisory Scientific Committee of the European System Risk Board, and many others. He is a director of the Financial Intermediation Research Society.

His research covers financial economics, banking, regulation, political economy, bounded rationality, game theory, contract theory, and macroeconomics.