About the Author

Friedrich Christian Kruse, born in 1983 in Hagen, has been a research assistant at the Endowed Chair of Finance at WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management from May 2008 to December 2010. During this time, he has also been a visiting scholar at the NYU Stern Business School in New York City. Prior to that, the author studied Business Administration and Economics at the University of Passau as well as Lund University in Sweden and was educated by the Bayerische Elite-Akademie. He received his doctoral degree in 2012.