Felix Noth

About

I am a Professor for Banking and Financial Systems at Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg (OVGU) and Deputy Head of the Financial Markets Department at the Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH). At the IWH, I coordinate the research group Financial System Adaptability and Resilience. My work is empirical, focused on banking and financial intermediation.

Publications

Working Papers

Policy Papers and Other Publications

Talks and Presentations

Talks and presentations of papers by co-authors are not listed.

• 2026: Finance Seminar Series, Humboldt University
• 2023: Workshop on Banking and Society, Strasbourg University
• 2022: Brownbag Series, IWH
• 2021: Brownbag Series, IWH; Finance Seminar Series, Strasbourg University; Finance Seminar Series, University of Bath; Finance Seminar Series, Humboldt University
• 2019: IBEFA Meetings, ASSA Meetings Atlanta; Association for Comparative Economic Studies, ASSA Meetings Atlanta; Royal Economic Society, Warwick; Economics Seminar Series, University of Dresden; Brown Bag Series, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
• 2018: Financial Markets Workshop, Fordham University; Workshop on Finance and Politics, University of Strasbourg; Brown Bag Seminar Series in Finance, LMU
• 2017: Research Seminar at ACPR-Banque de France, Paris; German Finance Association, Ulm; European Finance Association Conference, Mannheim; Financial Intermediation Research Society (FIRS) Conference, Hong Kong; Seminar on Finance, Maastricht University; DFG Meeting: 6th Workshop on Financial Market Imperfections and Macroeconomic Performance, Konstanz University
• 2016: DFG Meeting: 5th Workshop on Financial Market Imperfections and Macroeconomic Performance, University of Cologne; Seminar on Macroeconomics, University of Osnabrück
• 2015: Seminar on Macroeconomics and Econometrics, DIW; GEABA, Hamburg; DFG Meeting: 4th Workshop on Financial Market Imperfections and Macroeconomic Performance, Goethe University Frankfurt; Finance Research Seminar, Hannover University; 4th Research Workshop in Financial Economics, JGU Mainz
• 2014: French Finance Association, Paris; Western Economic Association, Denver; International Banking, Economics and Finance Association, Denver; 15th IWH-CIREQ Macroeconometric Workshop, Halle
• 2013: Campus for Finance, Vallendar; 2nd Research Workshop in Financial Economics, JGU Mainz; GEABA, Magdeburg; German Finance Association, Wuppertal
• 2012: French Finance Association, Strasbourg; German Finance Association, Hannover
• 2011: Brown Bag Series, Goethe University Frankfurt; Trinity College, Dublin; Banken Workshop, Münster; Verein für Socialpolitik, Frankfurt; GEABA, Zurich; German Finance Association, Regensburg
• 2010: Midwest Finance Association, Las Vegas; EWG-EPA, Chania; GEABA, Frankfurt
• 2009: Northern Finance Association, Niagara-on-the-Lake; 2nd CEPR Conference on Competition in Banking Markets, Antwerp; Eastern Finance Association, Washington; German Finance Association, Frankfurt

Education

Professional Experience

Awards

• 1st best teaching score (95% positive student evaluations) in the master curriculum at Otto-von-Guericke University (2019)
• 3rd best teaching score (93% positive student evaluations) in the master curriculum at Otto-von-Guericke University (2018)
• Best Seminar in the Finance curriculum (student evaluation) for Topics in Corporate Finance (joint seminar with Ulrich Schüwer, 2013)
• Best Paper Award for How do insured deposits affect bank stability? Evidence from the 2008 Emergency Economic Stabilization Act at the GEABA meeting in Magdeburg (2013)
• Best Paper PhD Award for The Efficient Use of IT and Bank Competitiveness (final title: IT use, productivity, and market power in banking) at EWG-EPA in Chania (2011)

Grants and Third-Party Funding

• Debt Overhang in Green Investments (OVERHANG), with Kai Lessmann (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research), Michael Koetter, and Alex Stomper (Humboldt University Berlin); funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (2022–2025)
• Relationship Lenders and Unorthodox Monetary Policy: Investment, Employment, and Resource Reallocation Effects, with Michael Koetter and Steffen Müller; funded by the Leibniz Foundation (2016–2019)
• Interactions between Bank-Specific Risk and Macroeconomic Performance, with Franziska Bremus; funded by the DFG under the Priority Program Financial Market Imperfections and Macroeconomic Performance (SPP1578, 2015–2018)

Academic Affiliations

• Visiting Professor at Fordham University (2018–2019), New York City
• Adjunct Professor for Corporate Finance (2014–today), Strasbourg University
• Project "Consequences of adverse shocks on bank behavior" with the Sustainable Architecture for Finance in Europe research center (SAFE, 2012–2016), Goethe University Frankfurt

Refereeing

Management Science; Journal of Financial Intermediation; Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis; Journal of Money, Credit and Banking; Journal of Corporate Finance; Journal of Banking & Finance; Journal of Financial Stability; Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization; Economic Policy; International Finance; The European Journal of Finance; International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction; Open Economies Review; Eastern European Economics; The Economics of Transition; Bundesbank Discussion Paper Series; Science of the Total Environment (STOTEN); Applied Economics Letters; Finance Research Letters; Economics of Transition and Institutional Change.

PhD Supervision

Students for whom I submitted a written final evaluation.

• Isabella Müller — December 2022
• Talina Sondershaus — July 2022
• Antonios Mavropoulos — March 2021
• Kathleen Kürschner Rauck — June 2020
• Mohammadjavad Moshefi — April 2020
• Jingjing Lyu — June 2019
• Sandra Dreher — June 2019
• Oliver Rehbein — December 2018
• Carola Müller — May 2018
• Fabian Horn — March 2018
• Matias Ossandon Busch — June 2017
• Konstantin Kiesel — October 2017

Teaching

• Foundations for Finance (Lecture, OVGU Magdeburg, with Michael Koetter): Winter term 2020
• The Great Depression, the Great Recession and the Future (Seminar, OVGU Magdeburg): Winter term 2016
• Econometrics (Lecture, OVGU Magdeburg): Winter terms 2014–2025
• The Economics of Banking and Financial Systems (Lecture, OVGU Magdeburg): Summer terms 2016–2020
• The Econometrics of Financial Intermediation (Lecture, OVGU Magdeburg): Summer terms 2014–2017
• Empirical Finance (Lecture, OVGU Magdeburg): Summer terms 2018–2019
• The Economics of Money, Banking and Financial Markets (Lecture, Frankfurt School of Finance): Summer term 2013
• Advanced Microeconometrics of Banking (Lecture, Goethe University): Winter term 2012
• The Theory of Corporate Finance (Lecture, Goethe University and University of Strasbourg): Summer term 2012, Winter terms 2014–2024
• Microeconometrics of Banking (Lecture, Goethe University): Summer terms 2012, 2013
• Financial Systems (Lecture, Goethe University, with Prof. Schmidt): Summer terms 2010–2013
• Financial System Design (Accenture lecture, Goethe Business School): Summer term 2015
• Introduction to Finance (Lecture, Strasbourg University): Summer terms 2010, 2011
• International Banking (Lecture, Goethe University, with Prof. Schmidt): Winter terms 2009–2013
• Topics in Corporate Finance (Seminar, Goethe University with Ulrich Schüwer; and OVGU Magdeburg): Summer terms 2013, 2014
• Topics in Capital Regulation of Banks (Seminar, OVGU Magdeburg): Summer term 2015
• Empirical Financial Intermediation (Seminar, Goethe University, with Patrick Behr): Winter term 2008
• Topics in Financial Intermediation (Seminar, Goethe University, with Patrick Behr): Summer term 2008
• Theory of Corporate Finance (Seminar, Goethe University, with Prof. Schmidt and Ulrich Schüwer): Winter term 2007