Prof. Dr. Christopher Priberny

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Christopher Priberny
Prof. Dr. rer. pol. habil., Diplomkaufmann

Lecturer at University of Regensburg

Bundesbank University of Applied Sciences
Schloss, 57627 Hachenburg
Germany

Phone: +49-2662-83-228
E-Mail: christopher.priberny@bundesbank.de

Office hours: by appointment

Profile

Curriculum Vitae

04/2016 - present: Professor at Deutsche Bundesbank University of Applied Sciences
02/2024 - present: Lecturer, University of Regensburg
04/2024 - present: Lecturer, University of Potsdam

November 2023: Habilitation (Business Administration), Department of Business and Economics, University of Regensburg
04/2016 - 01/2024: Associate Lecturer, Department of Finance, University of Regensburg
12/2013 - 03/2016: Research Fellow, Department of Finance, University of Regensburg
November 2013: Dr. rer. pol., Department of Business and Economics, University of Regensburg
08/2009 - 11/2013: Research Assistant, Department of Finance, University of Regensburg
06/2009: Diplom-Kaufmann (equivalent to Master' s Degree), Business Administration, University of Regensburg; Final Thesis: 'Use of CDOs in microfinance'
06/2008: 3rd Winner Postbank Finance Award 2008
07-11/2007: Study exchange with the University of Newcastle/Australia

Review activities

Journal of East European Management Studies (JEEMS)
Review of Managerial Science (RMSC)
North American Journal of Economics and Finance (NAJEF)
Asia-Pacific Financial Markets (FEJM)
Financial Innovation (FINI)
Credit & Capital Markets (CCM)
Journal “Quality & Quantity” (QUQU)
Annals of Operations Research

Teaching

G1-3 Statistics I
A1-2 Statistics II
A1-2 Finance
V2-2 Valuation and risk analysis of derivatives
V5-1 Basel II – Pillar 1
W5 Financial Econometrics
Lecture: Derivatives in Banking
Seminar: Postbank Finance Award
Lecture/tutorial Risk Management
Lecture Financial Aspects
Lecture Financial Engineering
Tutorial Financial Engineering
Tutorial Advanced Corporate Finance
Tutorial Corporate Finance
Preparatory course: Postbank Finance Award
Bachelor thesis supervision
Master thesis supervision

Publications

2024
Christian Kreuzer, Ralf Laschinger, Christopher Priberny and Sven Benninghoff
Cryptocurrencies as a vehicle for capital exodus: Evidence from the Russian–Ukrainian crisis
Finance Research Letters 69 Part B, 106191.

2023
Christopher Priberny
The impact of COVID-19 on demand and lending behavior in prosocial P2P lending
Credit and Capital Markets 56, p. 5-26

2022
Christian Kreuzer and Christopher Priberny
To green or not to green: The influence of board characteristics on carbon emissions
Finance Research Letters 49, p. 103077

2017
Gregor Dorfleitner, Susann Just-Marx and Christopher Priberny
What drives the repayment of agricultural micro loans? Evidence from Nicaragua
Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance 63, pp. 89-100

Gregor Dorfleitner, Christopher Priberny and Michaela Röhe
Why do microfinance institutions fail socially? A global empirical examination
Finance Research Letters 22, pp. 81-89

2016
Gregor Dorfleitner, Christopher Priberny, Stephanie Schuster, Johannes Stoiber, Martina Weber, Ivan de Castro and Julia Kammler
Description-text related soft information in peer-to-peer lending - Evidence from two leading European platforms
Journal of Banking and Finance 64, pp. 169-187

2014
Gregor Dorfleitner, Michaela Leidl and Christopher Priberny
Explaining Failures of Microfinance Institutions
Social Science Research Network : SSRN

2013
Gregor Dorfleitner, Michaela Leidl, Christopher Priberny and Jacob von Mosch
What determines microcredit interest rates?
Applied Financial Economics 23(20), pp. 1579-1597

Gregor Dorfleitner and Christopher Priberny
A quantitative model for structured microfinance
Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance 53(1), pp. 12-22

Christopher Priberny and Gregor Dorfleitner
Risk perception and foreign exchange risk management in microfinance
Journal of Management and Sustainability 3(2), pp. 68-78

2011
Gregor Dorfleitner, Michaela Leidl and Christopher Priberny
Microcredit as an Asset Class: Structured Microfinance
In: Mobilising Capital for Emerging Markets: What Can Structured Finance Contribute?, Springer, Berlin

2008
Eva-Maria Ferstl, Johannes Gerer, Christopher Priberny and Manuel Seitz
Wie können Privatanleger durch den Einsatz von Hedge-Fonds profitieren?
In: Hedge-Fonds - Chancen und Risiken, FAZ-Institut für Management, Markt- und Medieninformationen, Frankfurt am Main

Research and Presentations

Research topics

banking & regulation
microfinance
FinTechs, Peer-to-Peer lending
Sentiment
ESG and Scandals
Green Finance

Presentations & Talks

11th & 12th September 2025: Effect of natural disasters on US financial markets. ICBFS 2025, Piacenza.
28. - 31 July 2025: Effect of natural disasters on US financial markets. World Finance Conference 2025, Malta.
10th - 13th December 2024, Australasian Finance & Banking Confernce 2024, Sydney, Australia.
Cryptocurrencies as a vehicle for capital exodus: Evidence from the Russian–Ukrainian crisis.
AND Effect of natural disasters on US financial markets.
30th July - 2nd August 2024: Cryptocurrencies as a Vehicle for Capital Exodus: Evidence
from the Russian-Ukrainian Crisis. World Finance Conference 2024, Nicosia, Cyprus.
2. - 4. August 2023: The impact of COVID-19 on demand and lending behavior in prosocial P2P lending. World Finance Conference 2023, Kristiansand, Norway.
14th - 16th December 2022, What drives the loan funding on the peer-to-peer platform Kiva? Australasian Finance & Banking Confernce 2022, Sydney, Australia.
1st- 3rd August 2022: The Perception of Brexit Uncertainty and How It Affects Markets. World Finance Conference 2022, Turin, Italy.
3rd-6th July 2021: What drives the loan funding on the peer-to-peer platform Kiva? World Finance Conference 2021, virtual.
13th-15th December 2018: Why do microfinance institutions use foreign currency debt? Australasian Finance & Banking Confernce 2018, Sydney, Australia.
16th October 2015: Description-text related soft information in peer-to-peer lending – Evidence from two leading European platforms. FMA 2015, Orlando, USA.
21st September 2015: Description-text related soft information in peer-to-peer lending – Evidence from two leading European platforms. Hochschule der Deutschen Bundesbank, Hachenburg.
1st - 3rd June 2015: Explaining failures of microfinance institutions. 4th European Research Conference on Microfinance 2015, Geneva.
23rd - 25th April 2015: Explaining failures of microfinance institutions. Social and Sustainable Finance and Impact Investing Conference, Oxford.
2nd - 4th July 2014: Explaining failures of microfinance institutions. World Finance Conference 2014, Venice.
27th - 28th September 2013: Modeling defaults of rural micro loans. DGF 2013, Wuppertal.
10th - 12th June 2013: What determines microcredit interest rates? Third European Research Conference on Microfinance 2013, Kristiansand, Norway.
4th - 6th October 2012: What determines microcredit interest rates? DGF 2012, Hannover.
16th - 18th June 2011:Risk perception and FX risk mitigation in MFI refinancing. Second European Research Conference on Microfinance 2011, Groningen, Netherlands.
16th - 18th June 2011: A Quantitative Model for Structured Microfinance. Second European Research Conference on Microfinance 2011, Groningen, Netherlands.
08th - 09th October 2010: A Quantitative Model for Structured Microfinance. DGF 2010, Hamburg.
30th September - 01st October 2010: A Quantitative Model for Structured Microfinance.(Poster), CREDIT 2010, Venice.
01st - 03rd September 2010: A Quantitative Model for Structured Microfinance. OR 2010, Munich.
19th May 2010: Perspectives and a Quantitative Model for Structured Microfinance. UTS University of Technology, Sydney, Australia.
14th May 2010: Perspectives and a Quantitative Model for Structured Microfinance. University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia.