Steffen Meyer is a full professor at the Department of Economics and Business Economics at Aarhus University and a research fellow at the Danish Finance Institute (DFI). In his research, Prof. Meyer focuses on the investment decisions of private investors in capital markets and explores the reasons behind investment mistakes. This research is done in close cooperation with partners from the industry.
Within his research agenda, Steffen has extensively studied topics such as investment advice, investment funds and ETFs in the hands of private investors, learning of private investors, investment success and consumption decisions, as well as investments under uncertainty and ambiguity. His research findings have been published in all leading international finance journals and cited nearly 3,000 times.
Steffen teaches in the bachelor's and master's programs. For bachelor students, he teaches investments, and for master's students, he covers financial management and household finance.
Steffen has also taught lectures on dynamic asset allocation, financial systems, corporate finance, value-based management, and money & finance.
Steffen actively collaborates with partners from practices. He has worked with several banks, brokerages, and associations, and the result of these cooperations is several well-published research papers.
Steffen has received a grant from the Carlsberg Foundation to establish a "Center for research in decision making under risk and ambiguity (CentR-A)" over the following five years.
