Welcome to my Personal Profile Page. Here you can get a quick impression about my research and teaching expertise and - via the link to my personal website - learn about my research and teaching, find links to my latest working papers, research projects, conferences and much more.

I am currently Associate Professor of Finance at the Maastricht University as well as Professor of Entrepreneurial Finance and Banking at the Open Universiteit (The Netherlands), Professor Extraordinary at the University of Stellenbosch Business School (South Africa) and Visiting International Professor at the Westfälische Wilhelms Universität Münster (Germany). I earned my doctorate in 1993 at the University of Georgia (USA).

My research focusses on retail banking, syndicated loans, project finance, banking geography and integration and -most recently- sustainable finance. I have published in academic journals including the Journal of Financial Intermediation, Economic Policy, World Development, Journal of Financial Stability, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of International Money and Finance, Financial Management and Economic Inquiry.

I received grants from the German Academic Exchange Service, Dutch Science Foundation, AC21 and the European Credit Research Institute, consulted with the EU and the Center for European Policy Studies and taught graduate courses in 11 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe and North America. I am a member of the editorial (advisory) board of Applied Finance Letters, International Review of Financial Analysis and Finance Research Letters.                

For more information, please go to my personal website at www.stefaniekleimeier.nl