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10 September 2024
Engineering concepts – Why language matters

Prof. Dr. Sebastian Köhler

Current political discourse teems with discussions about language. People get hot-headed about gender-neutral language, street names, what one is “still allowed to say,” and the limits of political correctness. Recently, the German state of Bavaria’s conservative government even went so far as to ban outright gender-neutral spellings in all legal and administrative state regulation, the justification being that such spellings would make official regulations harder to understand.
26 April 2023
A changing global landscape: Three observations from the Raisina Dialogue in Delhi
Matthias Catón
The motto of this year’s Raisina Dialogue was “Provocation, Uncertainty, Turbulence – A Lighthouse in the Tempest?” Although the organisers wisely added a question mark, one thing is clear: India’s importance in the world will continue to rise, and with it, the significance of a dialogue such as the Raisina Dialogue.
Strategy and risk management are central to the role of a board of directors. They must take into account the changing nature of risks in order to adjust the adopted strategy. Risks of a political nature are one of several that need to be monitored.
12 December 2022
Geopolitics for Organizations – tools to navigate a challenging world
Elter Nehemias Santos Barbosa
26 July 2022
What is a convertible note and how does it work?
Ram Shoham
A convertible note is a hybrid financial instrument for raising funds in the very early stages of a startup, typically when valuation is not set. It acts as a debt instrument until an agreed maturity period, after which it can be converted to equity. The funds raised by this method would help the startup to get the ball rolling by developing its product and acquiring the early adopters.
What can I know? What does it mean to know anything at all? Or more radically, could it be that I am just dreaming or trapped in ‘the Matrix’? Traditionally, philosophical epistemology has dealt with questions such as these primarily from the perspective of the individual. Social epistemology, in turn, puts the ‘social’ into knowing.
5 April 2022
Studying the Spread of Knowledge: Social Epistemology and Computational Modelling
Prof. Dr. Rainer Hegselmann
18 December 2020
Responsible AI?

Prof. Dr. Sebastian Köhler

In the near future, we can expect such systems to be able to carry out more and more tasks all by themselves. Apart from self-driving cars, it is likely that we will encounter autonomous machines in many places: in warehouses, hospitals, banks, and on the battlefield.
24 March 2020
Certified Coronavirus Immunity as a Resource and Strategy to Cope with Pandemic Costs

Prof. Dr. Rainer Hegselmann

A pandemic is not only a biological event and a public health disaster, but it also generates impacts that are worth understanding from economic, societal, historical, and cultural perspectives. In this contribution, we argue that as the disease spreads, we are able to harness a valuable key resource: people who have immunity to coronavirus.
23 September 2021
frankly.green – the green Crowdinvesting Platform of Frankfurt School
Tobias Panofen
With frankly.green, we have made a conscious decision to facilitate financing for green businesses in emerging markets. Already back in 2004, the President of Rwanda, Paul Kagame, stated: "In Africa today, we recognise that trade and investment, and not aid, are pillars of development." We strongly believe that investors can make a big and very direct impact here.
Immer mehr spielt sich unser Leben auf virtuellen Plattformen ab. Umgekehrt verlieren physische Einrichtungen wie Filialen, aber auch Autohäuser, oder Buchläden an Relevanz. Was bedeutet diese Entwicklung für die Finanzbranche? Offenbar befinden wir uns an einer entscheidenden Stelle in der Fortentwicklung des wirtschaftlichen Handelns.
21 July 2021
Welche Rolle spielen Banken in der Plattformwirtschaft?
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Moormann
20 April 2020
Low-Carbon Investment and Credit Rationing
Dr. Karol Kempa
Limiting global warming to well below 2°C, as agreed under the Paris Agreement, will require substantial low-carbon investments. Next to typically discussed market frictions, such environmental and knowledge externalities, also market failures on financial markets are potential issues for these investments.
Behavioral economics, along with the subfield of behavioral finance, argues that many economic phenomena may be better understand when taking into account that humans sometimes behave less than fully rationally.
12 June 2019
Behavioral Economics at Frankfurt School
Sebastian Ebert
8 August 2019
Measuring Political Risk and its Effects on Firms

Prof. Dr. Laurence van Lent

Laurence van Lent and three colleagues have analyzed corporate conference calls in which companies discuss their financial results, to measure how much time executives spent talking about political risk and how this correlates to future actions of the company.
Engineering concepts – Why language matters
10 September 2024
Prof. Dr. Sebastian Köhler
A changing global landscape: Three observations from the Raisina Dialogue in Delhi
26 April 2023
Matthias Catón
Geopolitics for Organizations – tools to navigate a challenging world
12 December 2022
Elter Nehemias Santos Barbosa
Responsible AI?
18 December 2020
Prof. Dr. Sebastian Köhler
What is a convertible note and how does it work?
26 July 2022
Ram Shoham
Studying the Spread of Knowledge: Social Epistemology and Computational Modelling
5 April 2022
Prof. Dr. Rainer Hegselmann
Certified Coronavirus Immunity as a Resource and Strategy to Cope with Pandemic Costs
24 March 2020
Prof. Dr. Rainer Hegselmann
frankly.green – the green Crowdinvesting Platform of Frankfurt School
23 September 2021
Tobias Panofen
Welche Rolle spielen Banken in der Plattformwirtschaft?
21 July 2021
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Moormann
Measuring Political Risk and its Effects on Firms
8 August 2019
Prof. Dr. Laurence van Lent
Low-Carbon Investment and Credit Rationing
20 April 2020
Dr. Karol Kempa
Behavioral Economics at Frankfurt School
12 June 2019
Sebastian Ebert