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Prof. Dr. Martin Angerer

Innovative and Digital Finance

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Welcome to the website of the Professorship for Innovative and Digital Finance at the University of Liechtenstein, currently led by Prof. Dr. Martin Angerer.

 

Our professorship is dedicated to researching and shaping new financial solutions. We explore opportunities and challenges arising from digitalisation, new technologies, and societal developments for the financial world. These insights are brought into teaching and practical exchange.

 

Our focus areas include blockchain, cryptocurrencies, FinTech, innovative financial products, impact finance and financial education. Our work is interdisciplinary, internationally collaborative, and characterised by a strong commitment to scientific relevance and societal benefit.

 

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Our teaching focuses on research-driven content, current developments, and practice-oriented applications. Courses are interactive and student-centred across Bachelor’s, Master’s, and PhD programmes, as well as in professional education. 

 

Our teaching portfolio spans traditional topics such as financial markets, statistics, and academic writing, as well as crypto and innovative finance, FinTech, behavioural and experimental finance, and critical thinking. Through professional education programmes such as the CAS Blockchain and FinTech (supported by Bank Frick) and the Innovative Finance Workshop Series, we provide up-to-date expertise tailored to current needs in finance for students, professionals, and decision-makers. 

 

Further information: CAS Blockchain and FinTech

Our research addresses current trends and structural changes in the financial sector. We work empirically, experimentally and analytically, bringing together diverse perspectives from business, mathematics, technology and education.

 

Research Focus Areas:

  • Blockchain Technology & Cryptocurrency Markets
  • FinTech, Digital Finance & Innovative Financial Products
  • Impact Finance & Sustainable Financial Solutions
  • Behavioural & Experimental Finance
  • Mathematical & Empirical Finance
  • Financial Economics
  • Financial Education for Children and Youth

 

Our research aims to deepen understanding of new financial phenomena and to develop evidence-based recommendations for actors in academia, politics and business.

 

Further information: Research

Ongoing research projects address questions central to the digital and innovative development of financial markets. A selection of current topics:

 

  • Liquidity in crypto markets: evidence from intraday data
  • Reactions to technological upgrades of cryptocurrencies
  • Analysis of the effectiveness of financial education in Tanzania
  • Investor behaviour in markets for fractionalised assets
  • Unit of account in crypto markets: do traders think in fiat or crypto?
  • Risk premiums around events and non-convex volatility structures
  • Developments in currencies

 

Many of our projects arise from international collaborations and are funded by third-party grants or carried out in close cooperation with practice partners.

 

Further information: Research Projects

Knowledge and technology transfer is a core priority. In collaboration with partners from industry, the public sector, and society, we develop additional projects that complement our focus areas and combine practical relevance with scientific rigour.

 

Examples of current transfer projects:

  • Development of an app to strengthen financial literacy among children and youth (Erasmus+)
  • Analysis of the location attractiveness of Liechtenstein’s financial centre
  • Virtual & Hybrid Learning Environments (E+ project with Kapsch BusinessCom and the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management)
  • Strategy consulting in the context of blockchain regulation and FinTech innovation
  • Financial education programmes in schools in Tanzania (Erasmus+)

 

Our projects are often interdisciplinary, international and practice-oriented, aiming to create genuine added value for all involved.

Research Labs

Since 2024, the professorship has been home to the Bank Frick Innovative Finance Lab. The aim of this cooperation is to promote education, professional education and research in the fields of innovative finance, blockchain and FinTech.

 

The collaboration was initiated jointly with Bank Frick in 2018 and has since linked academic quality with practical relevance. To date, over 120 professional education participants have been trained and more than two dozen academic theses supervised.

 

The lab regularly offers workshops, certificate courses and research impulses on current developments in digital finance. The Lab’s flagship program is the CAS in Blockchain and FinTech, complemented by the bi-yearly Smart Contracts Workshop.

 

The Mathematics and Statistics Lab, funded by the Palmary Foundation and led by Dr Wolfgang Schadner, provides support in quantitative methods for students, researchers and cooperation partners.

 

The lab serves as a point of contact for questions related to empirical analyses, econometric methods, financial mathematical modelling and algorithmic trading. In addition to supervising bachelor’s and master’s theses, it also offers support for independent research and transfer projects.

 

The lab holds open office hours every Tuesday from 1.00 to 3.00 p.m. (Room C.216) — no appointment necessary.

The Youth Green Finance Initiative links digital financial solutions with sustainable development, especially in the context of young people.

 

The YGFI Lab, funded by UNICEF Switzerland & Liechtenstein, develops a programme in cooperation with the Liechtenstein Bankers Association (LBV), LLB and LGT Bank, the LIFE Climate Foundation Liechtenstein and other partners, which promotes financial education and entrepreneurial activities for youth, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa.

 

The project is an example of impact-oriented research that addresses societal challenges and imparts concrete financial skills.

Highlight

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A particular highlight is the close integration of research, teaching and practice. Current research findings flow directly into our courses and are tested in practice through projects such as the Bank Frick Lab, the Youth Green Finance Initiative and the Tanzania cooperation.

 

Through this integration, we succeed not only in academically examining future-relevant financial topics but also in concretely contributing to solving real-world challenges, locally and globally.

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Prof. Dr. Martin Angerer
Professor - Innovative and Digital Finance Academic Director MSc IF - Liechtenstein Business School
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