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Curriculum Vitae

  • since April 2016: Professor at Deutsche Bundesbank University of Applied Sciences
  • since February 2024: Lecturer, University of Regensburg
  • since April 2025: 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
  • June 2009: Diplom-Kaufmann (equivalent to Master' s Degree), Business Administration, University of Regensburg; Final Thesis: 'Use of CDOs in microfinance'
  • June 2008: 3rd Winner Postbank Finance Award 2008
  • July-Nov 2007: Study exchange with the University of Newcastle/Australia

Main research areas

  • Banking & Regulation
  • Microfinance
  • FinTechs, Peer-to-Peer Lending
  • Green Finance

Expert 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
  • 22th annual conference of the German Finance Association DGF

Courses

at the UR:

  • Lecture: Advanced Management and Supervision of Financial Institutions
  • Lecture: Management and Supervision of Financial Institutions
  • 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

other teaching experience:

  • Statistics Courses
  • Lectures on Financial Econometrics
  • Lectures on Banking and Risk Management
  • Bank Regulation

Publications

Presentations &  Talks

  • 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, Nikosia, Zypern.
  • 2nd-4th 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.

Prof. Dr. Christopher Priberny

Lecturer

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