Marc Oliver Rieger


Marc Oliver Rieger is a German mathematician and finance professor. His research covers the areas of behavioural finance, decision and game theory, financial derivatives, and calculus of variation. Together with Thorsten Hens and Mei Wang, he was one of the authors of the INTRA survey that collected risk and time preferences in 53 countries worldwide leading to various follow-up studies by other researchers and practitioners and media coverage by leading newspapers in Germany and elsewhere.

Biography

Rieger is Professor of Banking and Finance at the University of Trier, Germany, since 2010, and Director of the Confucius Institute of the University of Trier since 2018. In 2018, he was also adjunct professor at National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan and in 2019 guest professor at the University of Zurich. Since 2019, he is core member of the research group "Quantitative Finance and Risk Analysis", and project leader of the research cluster "Globalization and Re-Nationalization," both financed by the research initiative of the state of Rheinland-Pfalz.
Rieger studied mathematics at University of Konstanz from 1993 to 1998, and obtained a PhD at Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig, in 2001, under the supervision of Prof. Stefan Müller. He worked as research scholar and postdoc at Carnegie Mellon University, Scuola Normale Superiore, University of Zürich and ETH Zürich.

Selected publications

INTRA survey