Dr. Franz Flögel

Research Department Spatial Capital

Franz Flögel graduated as Magister Artium at Potsdam University in 2010. He studied human geography, economics and political science at Potsdam University, Humboldt University of Berlin and University of Nottingham and received a scholarship of the German National Academic Foundation. Since 2010, he has been working as a researcher at the IAT in the research department "Spatial Capital". In 2017, he completed his PhD at the professorship of Economic Geography (Professor Hans-Martin Zademach) of the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt. His dissertation compares the corporate lending practices of regional and large German banks.

Research fields:

• Finance and regional development
  • Especially banking and regional development
  • Public finance and regional development
• Regional development and economic promotion
• Geography of retailing and consumption

Academic rewards/distinctions:

2006-2010 recipient of a merit scholarship of the German National Academic Foundation

2013-2015 PhD scholarship of the German National Academic Foundation

2017 Prizewinner of the Eichstätter Universitätsgesellschaft e.V. for outstanding scientific dissertations

Memberships:

• Study group geography of retailing (Arbeitskreis geographische Handelsforschung),
• VGDH
• Junges Forum der Akademie für Raumforschung und Landesplanung
• Alumni of the German National Academic Foundation e.V.

Publications (Selection)

Flögel, Franz / Gärtner, Stefan
2020: The COVID-19 pandemic and relationship banking in Germany: Will regional banks cushion an economic decline or is a banking crisis looming? In: Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie. Published online: 19 June 2020, 18 p.
https://doi.org/10.1111/tesg.12440

Beckamp, Marius / Flögel, Franz
2019: Will FinTech make regional banks superfluous for small firm finance? Observations from soft information-based lending in Germany. In: Economic notes: review of banking, finance and monetary economics 48, no. 3, p. 1-20
https://doi.org/10.1111/ecno.12159
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Flögel, Franz
2018: Distance and modern banks’ lending to SMEs: ethnographic insights from a comparison of regional and large banks in Germany. In: Journal of economic geography 18, no. 1, p. 35-57
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Dr. Franz Flögel

Research Department Spatial Capital

Jahrgang 1985. Magisterstudium der Humangeographie, Volkswirtschaftslehre und Politikwissenschaften an der Universität Potsdam, der Humboldt Universität zu Berlin und der University of Nottingham. Seit 2010 wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Institut Arbeit und Technik im Forschungsschwerpunkt Raumkapital. 2017 Abschluss der Promotion an der Professur für Wirtschaftsgeographie der Katholischen Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt zum Thema der Unternehmenskreditvergabe regionaler Banken und Großbanken im Vergleich.

Arbeits-/ Forschungsschwerpunkte:

• Finanzgeographie, insbesondere Banken und Raum, sowie öffentliche regionale Finanzen
• Wirtschaftsförderung / Regionalentwicklung,
• Konsumption / Einzelhandel

Auszeichnungen:

• 2006-2010 Leistungsstipendium der Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
• 2013 - 2015 Promotionsstipendium der Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
• 2017 Promotionspreis der Eichstätter Universitätsgesellschaft e.V. für herausragende wissenschaftliche Abschlussarbeiten

Mitgliedschaften:

• Arbeitskreis geographische Handelsforschung
• Verband der Geographen an deutschen Hochschulen
• Junges Forum der Akademie für Raumforschung und Landesplanung
• Alumni der Studienstiftung e.V.

Publications (Selection)

Flögel, Franz / Gärtner, Stefan
2020: The COVID-19 pandemic and relationship banking in Germany: Will regional banks cushion an economic decline or is a banking crisis looming? In: Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie. Published online: 19 June 2020, 18 p.
https://doi.org/10.1111/tesg.12440

Beckamp, Marius / Flögel, Franz
2019: Will FinTech make regional banks superfluous for small firm finance? Observations from soft information-based lending in Germany. In: Economic notes: review of banking, finance and monetary economics 48, no. 3, p. 1-20
https://doi.org/10.1111/ecno.12159
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Flögel, Franz
2019: Distance, rating systems and enterprise finance: ethnographic insights from a comparison of regional and large banks in Germany. E-Book. London: Routledge. ISBN 9780367588236. Routledge international studies in money and banking. Zugl.: Eichstädt-Ingolstadt, Kath. Univ., Diss., 2017
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