Jan Pieter Krahnen
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Jan Pieter Krahnen (born 31 August 1954) is Professor for corporate finance at the
Goethe-University Frankfurt Goethe University (german: link=no, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main) is a university located in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It was founded in 1914 as a citizens' university, which means it was founded and funded by the wealt ...
and director of the
Center for Financial Studies The Center for Financial Studies (CFS) (Gesellschaft für Kapitalmarktforschung), located in Frankfurt am Main, is an independent research institute affiliated to the Goethe University Frankfurt. CFS conducts independent and internationally orient ...
and the Research Center SAFE.


Life

After completing an apprenticeship at the BHF-Bank, Krahnen studied
business administration Business administration, also known as business management, is the administration of a commercial enterprise. It includes all aspects of overseeing and supervising the business operations of an organization. From the point of view of management ...
at the
Goethe University Frankfurt Goethe University (german: link=no, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main) is a university located in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It was founded in 1914 as a citizens' university, which means it was founded and funded by the wealt ...
where he earned a PhD in 1984. Four years later he received his postdoctoral lecture qualification (habilitation) from the Freie Universität Berlin. After staying at the
University of Cologne The University of Cologne (german: Universität zu Köln) is a university in Cologne, Germany. It was established in the year 1388 and is one of the most prestigious and research intensive universities in Germany. It was the sixth university to ...
and the
Justus Liebig University Giessen University of Giessen, official name Justus Liebig University Giessen (german: Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen), is a large public research university in Giessen, Hesse, Germany. It is named after its most famous faculty member, Justus von L ...
, Krahnen returned to the Goethe University Frankfurt in 1995. At the same time he became director of the
Center for Financial Studies The Center for Financial Studies (CFS) (Gesellschaft für Kapitalmarktforschung), located in Frankfurt am Main, is an independent research institute affiliated to the Goethe University Frankfurt. CFS conducts independent and internationally orient ...
.


Research

Krahnen's research interests focus on
bank A bank is a financial institution that accepts deposits from the public and creates a demand deposit while simultaneously making loans. Lending activities can be directly performed by the bank or indirectly through capital markets. Because ...
s,
financial intermediaries A financial intermediary is an institution or individual that serves as a middleman among diverse parties in order to facilitate financial transactions. Common types include commercial banks, investment banks, stockbrokers, pooled investment funds ...
, credit management and
credit markets Credit (from Latin verb ''credit'', meaning "one believes") is the trust which allows one party to provide money or resources to another party wherein the second party does not reimburse the first party immediately (thereby generating a debt), ...
.


Public influence

Between 2008 and 2012 Krahnen was a member of a German government expert group that drew up proposals on how to reform international financial markets. The Commission chaired by the former Chief economist of the
European Central Bank The European Central Bank (ECB) is the prime component of the monetary Eurosystem and the European System of Central Banks (ESCB) as well as one of seven institutions of the European Union. It is one of the world's Big Four (banking)#Intern ...
,
Otmar Issing Otmar Issing (born 27 March 1936 in Würzburg) is a German economist who served as a member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank from 1998 to 2006 and concurrently as ECB chief economist. He developed the 'two-pillar' approach to m ...
, (thus also known as “Issing Commission”) published six reports. Krahnen is a member of the Group of Economic Advisors (GEA) of the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) in Paris and a member of the Academic Advisory Board of the German Federal Ministry of Finance. In February 2012, EU Commissioner
Michel Barnier Michel Barnier (born 9 January 1951) is a French politician who served as the European Commission's Head of Task Force for Relations with the United Kingdom (UK Task Force/UKTF) from 2019 to 2021. He previously served as Chief Negotiator, Task ...
invited Krahnen to join a high-level expert group to examine possible reforms to the structure of the EU banking sector. Krahnen was the only German member of this group which was chaired by Erkki Liikanen, Governor of the
Bank of Finland The Bank of Finland ( fi, Suomen Pankki, sv, Finlands Bank) is the central bank of Finland. It views itself as the fourth oldest surviving central bank in the world, after Sweden's Riksbank, the Bank of England, and the Bank of France. History ...
, and consisted of eleven people in total. On 2 October 2012 the group published their
report A report is a document that presents information in an organized format for a specific audience and purpose. Although summaries of reports may be delivered orally, complete reports are almost always in the form of written documents. Usage In ...
.Liikanen report
Website of the European Commission.


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