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WU Awards 2021 - Outstanding research and teaching achievements by WU students and faculty

17/11/2021

Excellence in the Spotlight The WU Awards put the spotlight on teachers and researchers whose achievements during the past year helped strengthen WU’s reputation for excellence and develop solutions to current economic and social challenges

Numerous researchers from the Institute were honored by the Rector's Office for their dedication and research achievements over the past year. The Institute’s awarded achievements can be found below and in the brochure WU Awards 2021.

The WU Best Paper Award, established in 2000, is presented annually to the authors of outstanding academic contributions published in the previous calendar year. The WU Best Paper Award is funded by the WU Anniversary Fund of the City of Vienna and is presented in 4 categories.

Category 2: Publications in the fields of Business Administration, Economics, and Business Education

  • Schneider, Paul, Wagner, Christian, Zechner, Josef. 2020. Low-Risk Anomalies? The Journal of Finance, 75: 2673–2718.

Star Journal publications are articles by WU researchers published in outstanding international journals. These journals are listed in WU’s Star Journal List.

  • Dangl, Thomas, Zechner, Josef. 2021. Debt maturity and the dynamics of Leverage. Review of Financial Studies.

  • Schlag, Christian, Thimme, Julian, Weber, Rüdiger. 2021. Implied Volatility Duration: A Measure for the Timing of Uncertainty Resolution. Journal of Financial Economics. 140 (1), 127–144.

WU awards bonuses to its researchers for publications in internationally renowned journals and other outstanding academic achievements.

  • Choi, Jaewon, Hackbarth, Dirk, Zechner, Josef. 2020. Granularity of Corporate Debt. Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (JFQA). April 1–59.

  • Simion, Giorgia, Cavezzali, Elisa, Nathan, Siva, Rigoni, Ugo. 2020. Market discipline on bank bond issues through the lens of a new forward-looking measure of loan quality. European Financial Management. 26 1350–1384.

  • Halling, Michael, Yu, Jin, Zechner, Josef. 2020. How Did COVID -19 Affect Firms’ Access to Public Capital Markets? Review of Corporate Finance Studies. 9 (3), 501–533.

  • Mittelbach-Hörmanseder, Stéphanie, Hummel, Katrin, Rammerstorfer, Margarethe. 2020. The information content of corporate social responsibility disclosure in Europe: an institutional perspective. European Accounting Review.

  • Hanspal, Tobin, Weber, Annika, Wohlfart, Johannes. 2020. Exposure to the COVID -19 Stock Market Crash and its Effect on Household Expectations. Review of Economics and Statistics.

  • Peer, Stefanie, Mürmann, Alexander, Sallinger, Katharina. 2020. App-based feedback on safety to novice drivers: learning and monetary incentives. Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour. 71 198–219.

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  • Handler, Lukas, Jankowitsch, Rainer. 2019. Political Uncertainty and Sovereign Bond Markets. Eastern Finance Association, Miami, Vereinigte Staaten/USA, 10.04.–13.04.

  • Handler, Lukas, Jankowitsch, Rainer. 2019. Political Uncertainty and Sovereign Bond Markets. European Financial Management Association, Ponta Delgada, Portugal, 26.06.–29.06.

  • Chaderina, Maria, Mürmann, Alexander, Scheuch, Christoph. 2019. The Dark Side of Liquid Bonds in Fire Sales. American Finance Association (AFA) Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Vereinigte Staaten/USA, 04.01.–06.01.

  • Hautsch, Nikolaus, Scheuch, Christoph, Voigt, Stefan. 2019. Limits to Arbitrage in Markets with Stochastic Settlement Latency. European Finance Association (EFA) Annual Meeting, Lissabon, Portugal, 21.08.–24.08.

  • Hanspal, Tobin. 2020. Do Financial Misconduct Experiences Spur White-Collar Crime? European Finance Association, Helsinki, Finland, 20.08.–21.08.

Congratulation!!

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