Special seminar series with Professor Arvid Hoffmann

Arvid Hoffmann, a Professor of Marketing, is also a research fellow at the Behavioral Finance Working Group (Queen Mary University of London) and a senior associate at the Centre for Risk, Banking and Financial Services (Nottingham University). Prior to joining the University of Adelaide Business School, Arvid worked at Maastricht University, the Netherlands, and has held various visiting positions around the world. His research has been featured in articles in international media, including Financial Times, BBC Capital, Forbes, Bloomberg, Reuters, CNBC, and the New York Times. Arvid regularly advises industry and policy makersregarding consumer financial decision-making and (individual) investor behavior. As a primary research interest, Arvid seeks to better understand how individuals make (complex) financial decisions, such as investment choices. To do so, he integrates theories and methods from marketing as well as finance. In particular, Arvid uses survey and experimental data to uncover what individuals think and feel when anticipating or making important financial decisions and relates this to their actual behavior as revealed by, for example, personal bank and brokerage data. His research informs public policy makers and practitioners about effective ways to help improve individuals’ financial decision-making. As a secondary research interest, Arvid aims to better understand the interactions between capital and consumption markets. Specifically, he combines primary and secondary data to unravel how marketing actions and investments drive financial market outcomes, and vice versa.

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