Hi, I'm Elissa. I am an Assistant Professor and Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Finance Center, University of Münster, and a Research Affiliate at the Centre for Economic History, Queen's University Belfast. I received my PhD in Economic & Financial History from the University of Hohenheim in 2025.
My research focuses on how financial markets function, both in the past and today. I am particularly interested in trading behavior, investor expectations, and the role of regulation in derivatives markets. I also study household finance, examining how psychological factors and social networks shape investment decisions.
Much of my work draws on newly digitized historical sources and combines empirical methods from financial economics, behavioral finance, and applied machine learning. This includes text analysis, prediction models, and AI-based handwriting recognition to study long-run patterns in financial behavior.