Research Associate
Cambridge Centre for Finance / Cambridge Endowment for Research in Finance
BSc (University of Kiel), MSc, PhD (University of Hamburg)
I am a Research Associate in Empirical Finance at Cambridge Judge Business School. My research interests lie in the fields of corporate finance, corporate governance, institutional investors and sustainable finance, with a particular focus on mergers and acquisitions and proxy voting.
Currently, I am a Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. I also hold a Research Fellowship at the Hamburg Financial Research Center.

Publications
- Mönkemeyer, M. (2025) “Monitoring or selection? Institutional ownership and biodiversity incidents.” Social Science Research Network Paper. (DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.5047369)
- Mönkemeyer, M., Rennertseder, K. and Schröder, H. (2025) “Investor heterogeneity and venture performance.” Journal of Business Venturing (forthcoming)
- Frahm, G., Glöer, C., Küster Simic, A. and Mönkemeyer, M. (2025) “Bank monitoring, agency costs, and corporate financing decisions: European evidence.” Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting (DOI: 10.1007/s11156-025-01392-7) (published online Feb 2025)
- Drobetz, W., Mönkemeyer, M., Requejo, I. and Schröder, H. (2023) “Foreign bias in institutional portfolio allocation: the role of social trust.” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 214: 233-269 (DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2023.07.023)
News and insight
Research centre news
Are institutional investors effective in mitigating biodiversity risks?
Marwin Mönkemeyer, Research Associate at Cambridge Centre for Finance (CCFin) and Cambridge Endowment for Research in Finance (CERF), blogs about the capacity of institutional investors to address biodiversity risks through their investment practices.
Research centre news
Trust matters: how social trust shapes international investments
Marwin Mönkemeyer, Research Associate at Cambridge Centre for Finance (CCFin) and Cambridge Endowment for Research in Finance (CERF), blogs about the role of social trust in the portfolio allocation decisions of global institutional investors.
Overall, our results emphasise the role of the institutional shareholdings network as a corporate governance mechanism that influences accounting quality and shed light on how investors obtain valuable information for monitoring.