Ulrike Malmendier

Ulrike Malmendier is a member of the German Council of Economic Experts since September 2022. She is the Edward J. and Mollie Arnold Professor at the University of California at Berkeley and Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics and Professor of Finance at the Haas School of Business. Her research interests are corporate finance, behavioural economics/behavioural finance, economics of organizations, contract theory, law and economics, law and finance. Her research is published in leading journals including American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Finance and Journal of Economic Literature. She has earned numerous awards including the Fischer Black Prize of the American Finance Association (best finance researcher under 40), the Gustav-Stolper Prize of the German Economic Association, and the Bessel Prize of the Humboldt Foundation.