Lectures

Bitcoin and beyond as a hedge against fiat money| CAPinside Panel

Are crypto assets digital gold or virtual tulip bulbs? Christian W. Röhl asks Professor Lars Hornuf (University of Bremen), Maximilian Lautenschläger (Supervisory Board and Co Founder, Iconic Holding), Daniel Andemeskel (Head of Innovation, Universal Investment) and Jan Kühne (Coinbase). The panel of experts will discuss the importance of cryptocurrencies in finance and in personal portfolios.

Promise Not Fulfilled: FinTech, Data Privacy and the GDPR

In his publications Lars Hornuf analyzes how the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has affected the privacy practices of FinTech firms. Together with his coauthors he studies the content of 308 privacy statements respectively before and after the GDPR became binding.

Discussion: Neue Digitale Akteure und ihre Rolle in der Finanzwirtschaft

Panel discussion on the lecture "Neue Digitale Akteure und ihre Rolle in der Finanzwirtschaft: Eine Analyse des deutschen Marktes unter besonderer Berücksichtigung von Datenschutzaspekten". Among the discussants were the president of the ifo Institute, Prof. Dr. Clemens Fuest, and the founder of the Baader Bank, Uto Baader

Inaugural Lecture

Lars Hornuf on the topic "FinTech – Die Revolution der Finanzwirtschaft?" at the University of  Bremen

Zeppelin University: Honesty and Charitable Giving – The Impact of Economic Systems

Lars Hornuf visits Zeppelin University to give a lecture lecture on "The Impact of Two Different Economic Systems on Dishonesty and Charitable Giving: Determinants of Group-Level Variation".

Panel Discussion Marktwächter Studie: E-Payment - Wie sicher sind unsere Daten beim Bezahlen im Netz?

Lars Hornuf as a guest at the panel discussion on the publication of the Marktwächter study:

Electronic payment methods such as Amazon Pay, Paypal or instant bank transfer are very actively used by consumers when shopping on the Internet. At the same time they have concerns: How is their data used? How secure are the procedures? Together with experts from data protection, business, science and consumer protection, we discussed the challenges and opportunities of electronic payment methods and presented the latest findings from market observation.

About a paper in the Journal of Corporate Finance

How can companies benefit from crowd investing? Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in particular often have problems obtaining financing from traditional banks. Crowd investing offers these companies a new opportunity not only to obtain capital, but also to receive support from a large number of investors (e.g. by networking with new business partners or by making suggestions for improving products). Crowdinvesting also provides support to SMEs from the industrial middle class. Our research results illustrate how SMEs can make efficient use of crowd investing in their day-to-day operations.

To the paper (Open Access) 

Lars Hornuf and Jens Spahn on FinTechs in Germany at the hub Conference 2016

FinTechs in Germany, hub conference 2016

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in particular often have problems obtaining financing from traditional banks. Crowd investing offers these companies a new opportunity not only to obtain capital, but also to receive support from a large number of investors (e.g. by networking with new business partners or by making suggestions for improving products). Crowdinvesting also provides support to SMEs from the industrial middle class. Our research results illustrate how SMEs can make efficient use of crowd investing in their day-to-day operations.

To the Book "FinTech in Germany" 

Speaker on the Peking University/ Stanford University/ Oxford University Internet Law and Public Policy Conference

Lecture on the topic Regulating Crowdinvesting
The rapid progress of Internet technologies and electronic commerce has brought numerous new and difficult challenges to the existing legal regime. Thanks to the generous support from TencentCorporation, Peking University Law School has collaborated with Stanford Law School in co-organizing of an annual Conference on Internet Law and Public Policy since 2012, with venue rotating between Beijing and Palo Alto, to tackle some of the most pressing issues.This year, we are very pleased to announce a further expansion of this collaboration: Oxford Law Faculty, which has been at the forefront of legal research, is teaming up with this effort. Hopefully this tri-continental conference will provide a much-needed international academic platform for extensive and in-depth exchange of viewpoints and joint studies for the betterment of future development of electronic commerce, services and public policies. 

Lars Hornuf at the Berlin Social Science Center

Event study on the European Company

Lars Hornuf at the Social Science Research Center Berlin presents a study on capital market reactions to the conversion into a European Company.

to the article (SSRN) 

Speaker at the Peking University/ Stanford University/ Oxford University Internet Law and Public Policy Conference 2014