Editorial: Libra, Bitcoin & Co – Determinants of Non-cash Payments and Alternative Money

Article Details

Publisher Name

Duncker & Humblot

DOI

https://doi.org/10.3790/vjh.89.4.5

Language

English

Pages

2

Author Details

Prof. Dr. Dorothea Schäfer

• Dorothea Schäfer, Research Director Financial Markets at DIW Berlin and Adjunct Professor at Jönköping University – JIBS (Economics). She achieved her PhD and habilitation at the FU Berlin. Schäfer has been head of various research projects funded e. g. by the German Research Foundation (DFG), the EU Commission and the research arm of the DSGV (German Savings Bank Association). She has published in Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money, International Journal of Money and Finance, Economics of Transition, European Journal of Finance, Small Business Economics, Journal of Financial Stability and Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics and many other Journals. She was an expert for many committees, so the Bundestag’s Committee on Finance and the Commission to Review the Financing of the Nuclear Phase-out and the Subcommittee on Sustainable Governance She is Editor-in-Chief of Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung and of the Eurasian Economic Review (EAER).
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Prof. Dr. Mechthild Schrooten

• Mechthild Schrooten is professor for Economics at the School of International Business (SiB) at Hochschule Bremen, Germany. She received his Ph.D. from the Free University Berlin. Previously, Mechthild Schrooten was Deputy Head of International Economics at the DIW Berlin and Associate professor at Hitotsubashi-University, Tokyo, Japan. She is currently working in the areas of regulation, crises and the social impact. She is speaker of Arbeitsgruppe Alternative Wirtschaftspolitik (“Memogruppe”).
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Prof. Dr. Armin Varmaz

• Armin Varmaz is professor for international finance at the School of International Business Bremen. Previously, he was a research assistant at the University of Bremen, a visiting researcher at Brown University and a professor of finance at the University of Freiburg. At several occasions, he was visiting professor in the USA, most recently at Northern Kentucky University. He earned the doctorate (2006) and habilitation (2017) at the University of Bremen. His research and work interests include asset pricing, security valuation, portfolio management and asset allocation, empirical capital market research, computational finance, and bank efficiency and competition. Prof. Dr. Varmaz is the author of numerous articles in well-recognized international journals and of the books “Equity Valuation: Models from Leading Investment Banks”, “Computational Finance” and “Matlab for students and professionals”.
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