Jan Krahnen

Jan Pieter Krahnen teaches Corporate Finance at the School of Business and
Economics, Goethe University in Frankfurt. He is also a Director of the Center for
Financial Studies (CFS), an independent, externally funded research institute which
recently joined Goethe University’s House of Finance. Dr. Krahnen is also a
research fellow at the London-based Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR).
Furthermore, he is a member of the Steering Committee of the ECB-CFS research
network “Capital markets and financial integration in Europe”. His own research
interests focus on risk transfer in securitization markets and on implications of the
financial turmoil for institutions and market regulation. He is also working on
liquidity and the role of rating agencies in financial markets. Krahnen has published
extensively in the field of Corporate Finance and Banking. The most recent
publications are in the Review of Economic Studies, the Journal of Financial
Intermediation, Journal of Banking and Finance. He has served on the Editorial
Board of the Journal of Banking and Finance, and the Journal of Financial Services
Research.