Cristian Badarinza appointed Professor at Frankfurt School

• The real estate economist will join on 1 May 2025 as Associate Professor of Real Estate Finance
• With his strong research track-record he will contribute to further developing the Frankfurt School Real Estate Institute and its degree programmes
• Recently, the business school’s new Master in Real Estate and Executive Diploma in Real Estate Economics received the RICS accreditation

Frankfurt School of Finance & Management has appointed Cristian Badarinza as Associate Professor of Real Estate Finance. Starting 1 May, the economist will join the Finance Department. Together with Kerstin Hennig, Professor of Management Practice in Real Estate, he will further develop the Frankfurt School Real Estate Institute, its degree programmes as well as its research and industry networking activities.

Cristian Badarinza

Before May 2025, Cristian Badarinza was an Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore (NUS), an affiliate of the NUS Institute of Real Estate and Urban Studies and the CEPR Household Finance Research Policy Network, and a Postdoctoral Fellow at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. He has obtained a PhD and an MSc in Economics from Goethe University, Frankfurt. Cristian Badarinza’ s research interests are in the areas of real estate finance, household finance and financial economics. His agenda follows a structural behavioural approach that integrates both theoretical models and micro-level data to capture individual decision-making. His research has been published in internationally renowned, peer-reviewed publications such as the American Economic Review, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Review of Financial Dynamics, the Annual Review of Financial Economics, and Management Science.

"Cristian Badarinza is an internationally acknowledged real estate expert and thought leader who perfectly complements our faculty. We are delighted that he has decided to join Frankfurt School”, says Professor Ansgar Richter, Dean of Faculty at Frankfurt School of Finance & Management.

“With his impressive research track-record, Christian Badarinza will strongly contribute to our goal to position the Frankfurt School Real Estate Institute as the leading European think tank in real estate finance”, adds Professor Kerstin Hennig.

Professor Cristian Badarinza explains: “Being one of Europe’s leading business schools, Frankfurt School offers excellent research, education, and science transfer, and with its Real Estate Institute it is ideally positioned to act as a thought leader in all topics related to the real estate industry and its transformation.”

The Frankfurt School Real Estate Institute is supported by 19 corporate partners and addresses the industry’s urgent topics in research and education. The internationally oriented Master in Real Estate starts in August 2025, the comprehensive part-time programme Executive Diploma in Real Estate Economics starts in May 2025. Both programmes have been accredited by the renowned Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS).