Christian Kontz

Christian Kontz, assistant professor of finance. His research sits at the intersection of empirical corporate finance and asset pricing and explores how delegated asset management, the growth of passive investing, and emerging trends like ESG shape firms’ decisions and real economic outcomes. He earned his Ph.D. in Finance from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and holds a master’s degree in International Trade, Finance, and Development from the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics, and a bachelor's of economics from the University of Hamburg.