Dr. Matthias Schmitt
Professorship of Business Administration, especially Financial Services and Financial Technology
Contact Information:
matthias.schmitt@alumni.ip.mpg.de
Current activities:
Director Strategic Board Projects bei EagleBurgmann (Freudenberg)
- Digital Transformation | Lead of EB’s Digital Lab
- Strategy Implementation, Reporting and Communication
- M&A
- Assistant to the CEO
Academic Résumé
May - June 2017
Visiting Researcher Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, with Ajay Agrawal (Peter Munk Professor of Entrepreneurship, Professor of Strategic Management, Academic Director Creative Destruction Lab)
February - April 2017
Visiting Researcher Schulich School of Business, York University, with Douglas Cumming (Professor of Finance and Entrepreneurship; Ontario Research Chair in Economics and Public Policy)
2016 - 2018
Junior Research Fellow at Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition (Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research), Part of the DFG-Research Project “Crowdinvesting in Germany, England and the USA: Regulatory Perspectives and Welfare Implications of a New Financing Scheme”. Doctoral Thesis: Equity Crowdfunding: Local Bias, Capital Structure, and Venture Performance.
2014 - 2016
Research Associate at the Chair of Civil Law and Corporate Law, Prof. Dr. jur. Lars Klöhn, LL.M. (Harvard), LMU Munich, Part of the DFG-Research Project “Crowdinvesting in Germany, England and the USA: Regulatory Perspectives and Welfare Implications of a New Financing Scheme”
2012 - 2014
Studies in Business Administration (M.Sc.), LMU Munich
2009 - 2014
Professional Experience, Among Others at Siemens Corporate Strategies, Aschenbach Corporate Finance, EagleBurgmann USA
2011 - 2012
Academic Experience, Among Others as Teaching Fellow at the Seminar for Accounting and Auditing , Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Ballwieser, LMU Munich
2009 - 2012
Studies in Business Administration (B.Sc.), LMU Munich
Publications
Articles in Refereed Journals
Hornuf, Lars; Schmitt, Matthias; Stenzhorn, Eliza (2018). Equity Crowdfunding in Germany and the UK: Follow-up Funding and Firm Failure, Corporate Governance: An International Review, 26 (5), 331-354. DOI
Contributions to Collected Editions
Dorfleitner, Gregor; Hornuf, Lars; Schmitt, Matthias; Weber, Martina (2019). Allgemeiner Marktüberblick, in: Florian Möslein, Sebastian Omlor (eds.), FinTech Handbuch: Digitalisierung, Recht, Finanzen, 21-39. München: C.H. Beck.
Further Publications, Press Articles, Interviews
Dorfleitner, Gregor; Hornuf, Lars; Schmitt, Matthias; Weber, Martina (2016). FinTech-Markt in Deutschland - Abschlussbericht 17. Oktober 2016, 2016.Hornuf, Lars; Schmitt, Matthias (2016). Success and Failure in Equity Crowdfunding, CESifo DICE Report, 14 (2), 16-22.
Monographies
Dorfleitner, Gregor; Hornuf, Lars; Schmitt, Matthias; Weber, Martina (2017). FinTech in Germany. Cham: Springer. DOI
Discussion Papers
Hornuf, Lars; Schmitt, Matthias (2016). Does a Local Bias Exist in Equity Crowdfunding? The Impact of Investor Types and Portal Design, Max Planck Institute for Innovation & Competition Research Paper, No. 16-07
Presentations
19. - 20.06.2017
Does a Local Bias exist in Equity Crowdfunding?
Darden & Cambridge Judge Entrepreneurship and Innovation Research Conference
Location: University of Cambridge
12. - 14.06.2017
Does a Local Bias exist in Equity Crowdfunding?
DRUID Conference
Location: NYU Stern School of Business, New York
12. - 13.05.2017
Does a Local Bias exist in Equity Crowdfunding?
American Law and Economics Association - Annual Meeting
Location: Yale University
10. - 12.04.2017
Does a Local Bias exist in Equity Crowdfunding?
Royal Economic Society - Annual Conference
Location: University of Bristol
17.03.2017
Does a Local Bias exist in Equity Crowdfunding?
Finance Seminar
Location: Schulich School of Business, York University
18.01.2017
Does a Local Bias exist in Equity Crowdfunding?
TIME Colloquium
Location: Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Munich
13. - 15.09.2016
Equity Crowdfunding in Germany and the UK
Research Seminar
Location: Chiemsee
4.11.2016
Equity Crowdfunding in Germany and the UK
4. Crowdinvesting Symposium
Location: Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Munich
06. - 07.06.2016
Is There a Local Bias in Crowdinvesting? The Impact of Investor Types and Portal Design
3. ZEW Conference on the Dynamics of Entrepreneurship
Location: ZEW Mannheim
23.10.2015
Is There a Local Bias in Crowdinvesting?
3. Crowdinvesting Symposium
Location: LMU Munich
08. - 09.10.2015
Is There a Local Bias in Crowdinvesting?
19th G-Forum – Interdisciplinary Conference on Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Location: University of Kassel
02. - 03.06.2015
Does Geographic Proximity Matter in Crowdinvesting?
Workshop on the Economics of Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Location: University of Trier
15.04.2015
Does Geographic Proximity Matter in Crowdinvesting?
Crowdfunding Konferenz
Location: Institut für Mittelstandsforschung (IfM), Bonn
20. - 21.02.2015
Does Geographic Proximity Matter in Crowdinvesting?
Economic Workshop
Location: University of Trier