Professor Dr. Dr. h.c. Martin Weber

Project B4

Lehrstuhl für ABWL und Finanzwirtschaft, insbesondere Bankbetriebslehre
Fakultät für Betriebswirtschaftslehre
Universität Mannheim

Martin Weber was born in Stuttgart 1952. He received diplomas in Mathematics and Business from the University of Aachen. At the same university, he was awarded his Ph.D. in 1981 and completed his habilitation in 1988. His dissertation was on decision analysis and his habilitation thesis dealt with behavioral finance. After holding a professorship for half a year at Cologne University, he moved to Kiel (Professor of General Business, 1989-1993). Since 1993, he has been a professor at the University of Mannheim (Professor of Banking and Finance). He spent three years as a visitor at the Business School at UCLA, at Wharton, at the Psychology Department of Stanford University and at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. He serves on the editorial boards of "Decision Analysis", the "Journal of Risk and Uncertainty", and "Theory and Decision". His research interest is in banking, behavioral finance, decision research and experimental economics.

Selected Publications

• Abdellaoui, M., Vossmann, F., Weber, M. (2005), Choice-based Elicitation and Decomposition of Decision Weights for Gains and Losses under Uncertainty, Management Science, 51, 1384-1399.
• Glaser, M., Nöth, M., Weber, M. (2004), Behavioral Finance, in: Derek J. Koehler and Nigel Harvey (eds.), Blackwell Handbook of Judgment and Decision Making, 527-546.
• Glaser, M., Weber, M. (2005), September 11 and Stock Return Expectations of Individual Investors, Review of Finance, 9, 243-279
• Klos, A., Weber, E.U., Weber, M. (2005), Investment Decisions and Time Horizon: Risk Perception and Risk Behavior in Repeated Gambles, Management Science, 51, 1777-1790.
• Langer, T., Sarin, R.K., Weber, M. (2005), The Retrospective Evaluation of Payment Sequences: Duration Neglect and Peak-and-End-Effects, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 58, 157-175.