Christoph Merkle. Schloss Phone: Mannheim Fax: Germany Office: L5, 2, Room 106

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1 Christoph Merkle Chair of Banking and Finance medici.bwl.uni-mannheim.de/en University of Mannheim Schloss Phone: Mannheim Fax: Germany Office: L5, 2, Room 106 Employment 02/2012 present University of Mannheim, Assistant Professor of Finance Chair of Finance and Banking, Prof. Martin Weber Visits: 10/ /2013 Aalto University, School of Business, Helsinki, FI 01/ /2015 Duke University, Fuqua School of Business, Durham, NC, USA 09/ /2012 University of Mannheim, Research and Teaching Assistant Chair of Finance and Banking, Prof. Martin Weber Education 11/2011 University of Mannheim, Ph.D. Finance (Dr. rer.pol., summa cum laude) Committee: Martin Weber (chair), Peter Albrecht, Jürgen Schröder University of Mannheim, Graduate School of Economic & Social Sciences, Ph.D.-Student in Finance University of Cologne, M.A. Economics (Dipl.-Volkswirt) Visiting student: 02/ /2005 University of Economics Prague, CZ Research Interests Behavioral Finance Decision Theory Household Finance Experimental Finance Refereed Publications "Investor Happiness" (with Daniel Egan and Greg B. Davies), Journal of Economic Psychology, 2015, Vol. 49, pp "Second-order Beliefs and the Individual Investor" (with Daniel Egan and Martin Weber), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2014, Vol. 107(B, Special Issue), pp

2 "Do Investors Put Their Money Where Their Mouth Is? Stock Market Expectations and Trading Behavior" (with Martin Weber), Journal of Banking and Finance, 2014, Vol. 46, pp "Low Risk and High Return Affective Attitudes and Stock Market Expectations" (with Alexander Kempf and Alexandra Niessen-Ruenzi), European Financial Management, 2014, Vol. 20(5), pp "True Overconfidence: The Inability of Rational Information Processing to Account for Apparent Overconfidence" (with Martin Weber), Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 2011, Vol. 116(2), pp Working Papers "Financial Loss Aversion Illusion", Working Paper, AEA Conference Paper "Financial Overconfidence over Time - Foresight, Hindsight, and Insight of Investors", Working Paper, AFA Conference Paper "Fooled by Randomness: Investor Perception of Fund Manager Skill" (with Justus Heuer and Martin Weber), Working Paper, Papers are available under Work in Progress "Decomposing the Disposition Effect" (with A. Niessen-Ruenzi and Martin Weber). "Value and Momentum from Investor s Perspective" (with Christoph Sextroh). "Mental Accounting and Financial Risk Taking" (with Christine Kaufmann). "Financial Forecasting and the Wisdom of Select Crowds" (with Jack Soll). Other Publications and Papers "Investor Beliefs and Actions", Dissertation, 2011, MADOC Publication Server of the Library of the University of Mannheim. "Finanzmarkterwartungen von Privatanlegern - Grundlage für fundiertes Handeln?" (with Martin Weber), within the series "Forschung für die Praxis", 2012, Vol. 23. "Minority Report - Fiction or Reality? Legal Questions raised by Neuroscience with Particular Emphasis on German Crimal Law" (with Karla Schneider), Journal of International Biotechnology Law, 2007, Vol. 4(6), pp "Emotion and Finance - An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Impact of Emotions on Financial Decision Making", Working Paper, 2007.

3 Conference Presentations German Finance Association (DGF), Leipzig, Germany The European Association for Decision Making (SPUDM 25), Budapest, Hungary Eastern Finance Association, Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, USA American Economic Association (AEA), Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, USA German Finance Association (DGF), Karlsruhe, Germany Research in Behavioural Finance Conference, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Society for the Advancement of Behavioral Economics (SABE), Stateline, NV, USA Experimental Finance Conference, Zurich, Switzerland Summer Conference on Consumer Financial Decision Making, Boulder, CO, USA Financial Management Association (FMA), Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, USA German Finance Association (DGF), Wuppertal, Germany 2nd European Retail Investment Conference (ERIC), Stuttgart, Germany International Meeting on Experimental and Behavioral Economics (IMEBE), Madrid, Spain American Finance Association (AFA), Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, USA German Finance Association (DGF), Hannover, Germany European Finance Association (EFA), Annual Meeting, Copenhagen, Denmark Behavioral Decision Research in Management Conference (BDRM), Boulder, CO, USA Annual Conference Swiss Society for Fin. Market Research (SGF), Zurich, Switzerland Finance Down Under Conference, Melbourne, Australia The European Association for Decision Making (SPUDM 23), Kingston upon Thames, UK Summer Conference on Consumer Financial Decision Making, Boulder, CO, USA Western Finance Association (WFA), Annual Meetings, Santa Fe, NM, United States 1st European Retail Investment Conference (ERIC), Stuttgart, Germany Society for Judgment and Decision Making (SJDM), St. Louis, MO, United States* German Finance Association (DGF), Hamburg, Germany IAREP and SABE, Joint Conference, Cologne, Germany Behavioral Decision Research in Management Conference (BDRM), Pittsburgh, PA, USA International Meeting on Experimental and Behavioral Economics (IMEBE), Bilbao, Spain German Finance Association (DGF), Frankfurt, Germany The European Association for Decision Making (SPUDM 22) Conference, Rovereto, Italy IAREP and SABE, Joint Conference, Halifax, Canada Financial Management Association European Conference (FMAE), Turin, Italy International Meeting on Exp. and Behavioral Economics (IMEBE), Granada, Spain *presentation by co-author

4 Invited Presentations Area Finance Brown Bag Seminar, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, 2015 Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences, University of Cologne, 2015 Finance and Insurance Seminar, University of Münster, 2014 Department of Finance Brown Bag Seminar, Aalto University, 2013 Department of Finance, Maastricht University, 2011 Groupe d'analyse et de Théorie Economique (GATE), Université de Lyon, nd Academic Advisory Board Meeting of the GESS Mannheim, 2009 Teaching Term Course ID Topic Level Type Language HWS 2015 HWS 2014 FSS 2014 FIN 520 FIN 520 FIN 450 Banking Management Banking Management Consumer Finance Master Master Bachelor German German English FSS 2014 FIN 720 Experimental Finance Master Seminar English SS 2013 Uni Münster Financial Intermediation II Master German FSS 2013 FIN 301 Investments and Asset Pricing Bachelor English HWS 2012 FIN 520 Banking Management Master English FSS 2012 FIN 361 Consumer Finance Bachelor English HWS 2011 FIN 520 Banking Management Master Exercise German FSS 2011 FIN 720 Household Finance Master Seminar German FSS 2011 FIN 360 Empirical Banking Research Master Seminar English HWS 2010 FIN 520 Banking Management Master Exercise German FIN 721 Diploma / Master's theses Master Supervision Eng/Ger Uni Cologne Economics and Business Bachelor Tutorial Eng/Ger (HWS is the fall term and FSS the spring term, SS the summer term) Professional Service Referee: The Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Empirical Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance, Economic Journal, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Judgment and Decision Making, Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Economic Psychology, Psychological Science in the Public Interest, Kredit und Kapital, DBW Conferences: Discussant: FMAE 2009, DGF 2009, 2010, 2013, 2014, ERIC 2011, 2013, SGF 2012, WFA 2012, EF 2014, EastFA 2015 Session chair: IAREP/SABE 2009, DGF 2010, 2015, EastFA 2015 Conference reviewer: DGF 2012, 2013, 2015, SGF 2013, 2014, EastFA 2015, FDU 2015 Conference organizer: Experimental Finance Conference, Mannheim, 2016 (scheduled)

5 Scholarships and Awards 2015 DAAD Post-Doc Programme, Research Scholarship Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), PhD-Fellowship Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Student-Scholarship Miscellanea DAAD, Stiegler Stiftung, Fritz Thyssen Stiftung, Socrates-Erasmus, Bronnbacher Scholarship Other Working Experience 2006 Allianz SE, Group Investments, Internship International Relations Center, University of Cologne, Student Assistant 2005 Postbank AG, Risk Controlling Credit Risk, Internship 2004 Department of Political Economy, University of Cologne, Teaching Assistant 2004 Bundesvereinigung der Deutschen Arbeitgeberverbände (BDA), Internship October, 2015