Tim A. Kroencke is Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of Basel. His research focuses on empirical asset pricing. His projects deal with topics such as why stocks earn large average returns, the predictability of stock returns over time and in the cross-section of firms, how monetary policy affects the value of firms, why investors shift their portfolios from bonds to equities and how investors might benefit from investing internationally, in real estate or human capital. His work has been published in journals such as the Journal of Finance and the Review of Finance.

He studied at the Universities of Freiburg and Basel, and earned his Ph.D. in Finance at the University of Mannheim. Before joining the faculty in Basel, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Mannheim, a Researcher at the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) in Mannheim and worked for a large European retail bank.