Tabea Bucher-Koenen Awarded with Lifetime Professorship
PersonnelContinued Collaboration between ZEW Mannheim and the University of Mannheim
Professor Tabea Bucher-Koenen, head of the ZEW Research Unit “Pensions and Sustainable Financial Markets”, has been awarded a lifetime professorship. The joint appointment by ZEW and the University of Mannheim’s Business School continues the successful collaboration in the field of finance. Tabea Bucher-Koenen’s research focuses on household finance and the economics of ageing and demographic change. In particular, she examines private and public pension systems as well as long-term financial decisions. With her expertise, she is currently advising policymakers as a member of the German Pensions Commission.
“I am very much looking forward to further advancing my research on retirement provision, financial decisions and financial education in Mannheim,” says Bucher-Koenen. “The research environment in Mannheim offers the best conditions for combining fundamental research with high-level policy application. Especially in challenging times, robust empirical findings are essential for informing policy decisions.”
ZEW President Professor Achim Wambach, PhD says: “We are delighted to strengthen and further expand our close collaboration with the University of Mannheim through Tabea Bucher-Koenen. Her research combines academic excellence with high societal relevance, which she is currently demonstrating impressively through her work on the German Pensions Commission.”
Claudia von Schuttenbach, Managing Director of ZEW Mannheim, says: “The lifetime professorship awarded to Tabea Bucher-Koenen is a major recognition of her outstanding academic work and a strong signal of the successful cooperation between ZEW and the University Business School. Ranging from financial literacy to the future of retirement provision, her research makes an important contribution to the economic policy debate. At the same time, it strengthens ZEW’s profile in a key area for the future, particularly in light of demographic change and the growing importance of both public and private pension schemes.”
About Professor Tabea Bucher-Koenen
Professor Tabea Bucher-Koenen has headed ZEW’s “Pensions and Sustainable Financial Markets” Research Unit since January 2019. She holds the Chair of Financial Markets at the University of Mannheim and is Co-Director of the Mannheim Institute for Financial Education (MIFE). Bucher-Koenen studied Business Administration and Intercultural Management at Friedrich Schiller University Jena, as well as European Integration at the University of Kent in Canterbury, United Kingdom.
In 2010, she received her doctorate from the University of Mannheim at the Center for Doctoral Studies in Economics. From 2011 to 2018, she worked as a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy in Munich. Her current research includes individual saving, insurance decisions and the importance of financial literacy. Her work has been published in internationally renowned journals such as the American Economic Review, Management Science and the Review of Finance.
