I am a PhD candidate in Economics at Goethe University, Frankfurt and incoming postdoctoral researcher at Cambridge Judge Business School.

My research interests include empirical corporate finance and law and finance. I study how legal institutions and property rights enable firms to access debt through collateral. I combine detailed administrative and financial data with quasi-natural experiments, focusing on both tangible and intangible collateral.

PhD Candidate
Goethe University Frankfurt
leitzinger@econ.uni-frankfurt.de