Professor Troege received a master in Mathematics from the Ludwig Maximilians Universität München and a DESS in Finance from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris before graduating with a Ph.D. in Financial Economics from Humboldt Universität Berlin. Prior to joining ESCP Business School, he was research associate at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB) a government sponsored think tank and visiting scholar at J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.
Professor Troege’s research focuses on game theory and commercial banking. In particular, he is studying the competitive interaction of banks in credit markets. In this context he has participated as expert in the European Commission’s Sector Inquiry in Retail banking and the Study on the Impact of State Aid Rules for Banks in Difficulty. His articles have been published in a variety of academic and practitioner-oriented journals including the Review of Financial Studies, Games and Economic Behaviour, the Journal of Corporate Finance, the International Journal of Industrial Economics and the EC Competition Policy Newsletter. Professor Troege is also a regular contributor to the business press and has published OpEds in leading newspapers such as the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal and le Monde. In addition to his academic research, Professor Troege has served as a consultant specializing on the intersection of antitrust and finance. He also regularly participates in training programs for banks and multi-national corporations on a range of investment, financing, and valuation issues.
Professor Troege teaches the Financial Institution Management Course as well as advanced Corporate Finance classes and participates in a variety of Executive Education programmes.
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