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Prof. Dr. Patrick Weber

About me
  1. Position Professor Faculty of Business and Law
  2. Contact
    1. Würzburger Straße 45
      Room C01/42/104
      63743 Aschaffenburg
    2. patrick.weber@th-ab.de
    3. +49 6021 4206 956

 

Prof. Dr. Patrick Weber, CFA, was appointed to the Professorship of Finance and Quantitative Methods in September 2025. He studied Economics and Econometrics at the University of Nottingham and completed his doctorate at the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management. Prior to his appointment, his professional experience included positions at the Deutsche Bundesbank, the European Central Bank, and a private bank. Weber is a CFA charterholder.

 

Biography

  • Since 2025: Professor of Finance and Quantitative Methods and Director of the Institute for Asset Management, Aschaffenburg University of Applied Sciences
  • 2015–2025: Various specialist and leadership positions at the Deutsche Bundesbank, most recently as Head of the Office of the Chief Data Officer (CDO) and of the Bundesbank's Data Governance Office
  • 2017–2018: Senior Economist-Statistician, European Central Bank, seconded to support the development of the euro short-term rate (€STR)
  • 2013–2015: Senior Associate, European Fixed Income Research, Berenberg
  • 2012–2013: Research Associate, Chair of Financial Economics, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management
  • 2009–2012: Research Associate, Chair of the Economics of Financial Institutions, EBS Business School (Oestrich-Winkel)

Selected Publications

  • Fecht, F., Genc, E., Karabulut, Y., & Weber, P. (2026). Liquidity Support in Financial Institutions. Management Science. (forthcoming)
  • Fecht, F., Reitz, S., & Weber, P. (2024). A dealer's funding liquidity risk and its money market trades in the 2007/08 crisis. Journal of Financial Stability, 75, 101337.
  • Fecht, F., & Weber, P. (2023). Who borrows from the Eurosystem's lender-of-the-last-resort facility? Journal of Banking & Finance, 150, 106821.
  • Cagala, T., Hees, J., Herurkar, D., Meier, M., Nguyen, N., Sattarov, T., & Weber, P. (2022). Unsupervised Outlier Detection in Official Statistics. IFC Bulletin No 57, 236–247.
  • Fecht, F., & Weber, P. (2022). Private value of central bank liquidity and banks' bidding behavior in variable rate tender auctions. Journal of Banking & Finance, 136, 106221.
  • Fecht, F., Thum, S., & Weber, P. (2019). Fear, deposit insurance schemes, and deposit reallocation in the German banking system. Journal of Banking & Finance, 105, 151–165.
  • Fecht, F., & Weber, P. (2019). What We Can Learn from the Introduction of Blanket Deposit Guarantees in Germany 2008 about the Benefits of EDIS. ifo DICE Report, 17(1), 26–29.
  • Weber, P., Fecht, F., & Thum, S. (2017). Capturing depositors' expectations with Google data. IFC Bulletin No 44, 236–247.
  • Weber, P. (2016). Excess liquidity creation of banks and financial market peaks. Credit and Capital Markets, 49(1), 37–56.

Selected Conferences

  • 99th Western Economic Association Meeting, 2024, Seattle (USA)
  • 22nd European Economics and Finance Society Meeting, 2024, Athens (Greece)
  • 98th Western Economic Association Meeting, 2023, San Diego (USA)
  • 17th Western Economic Association Meeting, 2023, Melbourne (Australia)
  • 64th ISI World Statistics Congress, 2019, Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)
  • 18th Meeting of the Central Bank Research Association, 2019, New York City (USA)
  • 94th Western Economic Association Meeting, 2019, San Francisco (USA)
  • 15th Western Economic Association International Meeting, 2019, Tokyo (Japan)
  • 14th Conference on the Microstructure of Financial Markets, 2018, Hong Kong (China)
  • 33rd European Economic Association Meeting, 2018, Cologne (Germany)
  • 10th Finance Conference of the Portuguese Finance Network, 2018, Lisbon (Portugal)
  • 2nd Conference on Advanced Research Methods and Analytics, 2018, Valencia (Spain)
  • 6th Financial Engineering & Banking Society Conference, 2018, Rome (Italy)
  • 1st ISI Regional Statistics Conference, 2017, Bali (Indonesia)
  • 2nd Conference of European Statistics Stakeholders, 2016, Budapest (Hungary)
  • 3rd Kiel Workshop on Asset Pricing, 2016, Kiel (Germany)
  • 67th Meeting of the German Economic Association, 2015, Münster (Germany)
  • 5th FEBS Conference, 2015, Nantes (France)
  • 27th Australasian Finance and Banking Conference, 2014, Sydney (Australia)
  • 3rd CEQURA Conference, 2012, Munich (Germany)
  • 44th Money, Macro and Finance Conference, 2012, Dublin (Ireland)
  • 32nd Symposium on Forecasting, 2012, Boston (USA)
  • 19th Conference on Forecasting Financial Markets, 2012, Marseille (France)