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 an 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-orientated journals, including Review of Financial Studies, Games and Economic Behaviour, Journal of Corporate Finance, International Journal of Industrial Economics, and EC Competition Policy Newsletter. Professor Troege is also a regular contributor to the business press and has published op-eds 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 specialising in the intersection of antitrust and finance. He also regularly participates in training programmes for banks and multinational corporations on a range of investment, financing, and valuation issues.
Professor Troege received a master's 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 PhD in Financial Economics from Humboldt Universität Berlin. Prior to joining ESCP Business School, he was a research associate at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB), a government-sponsored think tank, and a visiting scholar at J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.
Professor Troege is in charge of the Investment Banking Specialisation on the Paris campus and teaches courses on Advanced Corporate Finance and Financial Institutions. In addition, he participates in a variety of Executive Education programmes.
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