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Dr. Chris Rauch
Chancellor
drchristian.r@uaqu.ac.ae

 

Biography

Chris is Finance Professor and Dean at the College of Business Administration at Umm Al Quwain University, and Director of the Center for Future Economy. His lectures and research focus on financial intermediation and institutional asset management, especially in the area of alternative investments. His research is frequently cited in various newspaper outlets, such as the Financial Times or The Wall Street Journal, published in leading academic journals, such as the Journal of Financial Economics, and presented at leading academic and practitioner conferences around the world, such as the American Finance Association Annual Meeting. Besides his academic work, Chris has been involved in a number of advisory and policy projects in the area of capital markets, such as the ECB Banking Task Force, the EU Liikanen Group, the German Financial Market Stabilization Fund (SoFFin), the Venture Capital ‘Scale-Up’ project for the UK government or, most recently and in the field of sustainability, as a member on the ‘HSBC Expert Panel on Sustainable Investing’ in the UAE. Prior to joining UAQU he was Associate Professor at the American University of Sharjah, Barclays Fellow at Saïd Business School (University of Oxford), and Assistant Professor at Goethe University in Frankfurt (Germany). He holds a PhD in Finance from Goethe University Frankfurt (Germany), and undergraduate and graduate degrees from European Business School (Germany) and New York University (USA).

 

Weblinks

Personal Website: https://www.rauchfinance.com/

 

Academic Publications

  • Fu, Diane, Tim Jenkinson and Christian Rauch. 2023. How Do Financial Contracts Evolve for New Ventures? Journal of Corporate Finance 81, p. 1-19.
  • Gleason, Kim, Yezen Kanaan and Christian Rauch. 2022. Fraud in Startups: What Stakeholders Need to Know. Journal of Financial Crime 29(4), 1191-1221.
  • Philippon, Ludovic, Christian Rauch and Marc Umber. 2018. Private Equity Portfolio Company Fees. Journal of Financial Economics 129(3), 559-585.
  • Berger, Allen N., Bjorn Imbierowicz and Christian Rauch. 2016. The Roles of Corporate Governance in Bank Failures During the Recent Financial Crisis. Journal of Money, Credit and Banking 48(4), 729-770.
  • Fuerth, Sven and Christian Rauch. 2015. Fare Thee Well? An Analysis of Buyout Funds’ Exit Strategies. Financial Management 44(4), 811-849.
  • Imbierowicz, Bjorn and Christian Rauch. 2014. The Relationship between Liquidity and Credit Risk in Banks. Journal of Banking & Finance 40(1), 242-256.
  • Ignatieva, Elena, Christian Rauch and Mark Wahrenburg. 2013. Analyzing European SPACs. The Journal of Private Equity 17(1), 64-79.
  • Hankir, Yassin, Christian Rauch and Marc Umber. 2011. Bank M&A – A Market Power Story? Journal of Banking & Finance 35(9), 2341-2354.
  • Gleisner, Fabian, Andreas Hackethal and Christian Rauch, 2010. Migration and the Retail Banking Industry. European Journal of Finance 16(5), 459-480.

 

Book Chapters, Case Studies, Policy Papers & Contributions

  • Fintech in Capital Markets, in: The Emerald Handbook on Fintech, edited by H. Kent Baker, Greg Filbeck and Keith Black, Emerald, Forthcoming 2024.
  • Contracting in Venture Capital, in The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Private Equity by Douglas Cumming and Benjamin Hammer, Spring/Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
  • Scale-Up UK: Growing Businesses, Growing Our Economy (with University of Cambridge & Thomas Hellmann), 2016.
  • Leveraged Buyouts (with M. Umber), in Private Equity – Opportunities and Risks, Oxford University Press, 2015.
  • Implementation of the Volcker Rule and Banking Reforms in the EU (with D. Elliott), Goethe University Policy Paper, 2014.
  • Buyout Funds (with M. Wahrenburg), in Alternative Investments: Instruments, Performance,Benchmarks & Strategies, Wiley, 2013.
  • Dividend Recaps and IPO Proceeds – The Untold Story of Bain Capital’s Success (with S. Fuerth), Goethe University Policy Paper, 2012.
  • Defensive Tactics in Hostile M&A Transactions (with M. Wahrenburg), in The Art of Capital Restructuring, Wiley, 2011.
  • Bank Fragility and the Financial Crisis – Evidence from the U.S. Dual Banking System, in International Finance Review 11, 2010.

 

Authored Teaching Case Studies

  • Rauch, Christian (2016): Square, Inc. – Business Model, Venture Funding and Valuation. Saïd Business School/Oxford University Case Study, 2016.
  • (Available for free download via SSRN or rauchfinance.com)