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  • December 2024: Jules van Binsbergen is Engelbert-Dockner-Fellow at the ISK

    We are pleased to welcome Jules van Binsbergen as Engelbert Dockner Fellow at the Research Institute for Capital Markets (ISK). Professor Zviadadze will visit WU from December 16 to 19, 2024.

    Jules van Binsbergen is the Lauder Professor and Anthony L. Davis Director of the Joseph H. Lauder Institute for Management and International Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He also holds the Nippon Life Professorship in Finance at the Wharton School.

    He conducts both theoretical and empirical research in finance. His current work focuses on the relationship between financial markets and the macro economy, as well as the organization, skill and performance of financial intermediaries.

    He joined the Wharton School in 2014 and previously taught at the Graduate School of Business of Stanford University and at the Kellogg School of Management of Northwestern University. He is a research associate at the NBER and a research fellow at the CEPR and he is a co-host of the podcast series All Else Equal: Making Better Decisions
     

  • November 2024: Irina Zviadadze is Engelbert-Dockner-Fellow at the ISK

    We are pleased to welcome Irina Zviadadze as Engelbert Dockner Fellow at the Research Institute for Capital Markets (ISK). Professor Zviadadze will visit WU from November 26 to December 6, 2024.
     

    Irina Zviadadze is Associate Professor of Finance at HEC Paris and Research Fellow at Swedish House of Finance.  

    Irina's research interests lie in asset pricing. She studies a risk-return tradeoff in different asset markets (equity, fixed-income, and foreign-exchange markets) and across different horizons.

    Her papers appeared in the Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, and Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis; and were also presented at numerous conferences and seminars worldwide. Irina has received several research awards, including Hans Dalborg's award for excellence in research in financial economics in 2019 and the Best Young Researcher Award in Finance and Economics in 2023 by Foundation SCOR, Europlace Institute of Finance, and Institut Louis Bachelier.
     

  • October 2024: Toni Whited is Engelbert-Dockner-Fellow at the ISK

    We are pleased to welcome Toni Whited as Engelbert Dockner Fellow at the Research Institute for Capital Markets (ISK). Professor Whited will visit WU from October 15 to 30, 2024.

    Toni Whited is the Frederick G L Huetwell Professor and Professor of Economics at the University of Michigan. She is the past-president of the Western Finance Association, and she serves as editor-in-chief for the Journal of Financial Economics.

    She is a financial economist with interests in corporate finance, structural estimation, and corporate investment.
    She has won a Jensen Prize for one of the top articles in corporate finance in the Journal of Financial Economics and twice won a Brattle Prize for one of the top articles in the Journal of Finance.

    The Engelbert-Dockner-Fellowship are sponsored by the POK Pühringer Privatstiftung and enable WU to invite renowned professors to spend an extended period at WU. With this initiative, we are also preserving the memory of Professor Engelbert Dockner, who passed away in 2017. Professor Dockner continuously fostered cutting-edge research and universities' educational mission in the field of capital markets.
     

  • June 2024: Alina Steshkova - Dissertation recognized as one of the three best in the prestigious FIRM Research Award competition


    We are delighted to announce that Alina Steshkova's dissertation has been recognized as one of the top three in the prestigious FIRM Research Prize competition. The Frankfurt Institute for Risk Management and Regulation (FIRM) awards this honor to the best dissertations in the field of "Financial Markets and Intermediaries," celebrating outstanding research completed in 2022 or 2023 at universities within the European Monetary Union.

    Alina's excellent work, supervised by Josef Zechner and Otto Randl, was selected by a distinguished jury chaired by Prof. Günter Franke, acknowledging her significant contributions to the field. She also had the opportunity to present her research at the FIRM Research Conference in Frankfurt.

    We extend our warmest congratulations to Alina for this remarkable achievement!
     

  • June 2024: Irina Zviadadze is Engelbert-Dockner-Fellow at the ISK

    We are pleased to welcome Irina Zviadadze as Engelbert Dockner Fellow at the Research Institute for Capital Markets (ISK). Professor Zviadadze will visit WU from June 5 to 21, 2024.
     

    Irina Zviadadze is Associate Professor of Finance at HEC Paris and Research Fellow at Swedish House of Finance.  

    Irina's research interests lie in asset pricing. She studies a risk-return tradeoff in different asset markets (equity, fixed-income, and foreign-exchange markets) and across different horizons. Her papers appeared in the Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, and Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis; and were also presented at numerous conferences and seminars worldwide. Irina has received several research awards, including Hans Dalborg's award for excellence in research in financial economics in 2019 and the Best Young Researcher Award in Finance and Economics in 2023 by Foundation SCOR, Europlace Institute of Finance, and Institut Louis Bachelier.
     

  • May 2024: Zhengyang Jiang is Engelbert-Dockner-Fellow at the ISK

    We are pleased to welcome Zhengyang Jiang as Engelbert Dockner Fellow at the Research Institute for Capital Markets (ISK). Professor Jiang will visit WU from May 13 to June 7, 2024.

    Zhengyang Jiang is an associate professor of finance, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University,Faculty Research Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), and Associate Editor, Journal of International Economics.
    His primary field of research is international finance and macroeconomics. I study exchange rates, capital flows, the valuation of public debt, and the special status of the U.S. and the dollar in the international monetary system. 

    The Engelbert-Dockner-Fellowship are sponsored by the POK Pühringer Privatstiftung and enable WU to invite renowned professors to spend an extended period at WU. With this initiative, we are also preserving the memory of Professor Engelbert Dockner, who passed away in 2017. Professor Dockner continuously fostered cutting-edge research and universities' educational mission in the field of capital markets.
     

  • May 2024: Toni Whited is Engelbert-Dockner-Fellow at the ISK

    We are pleased to welcome Toni Whited as Engelbert Dockner Fellow at the Research Institute for Capital Markets (ISK). Professor Whited will visit WU from May 13 to 24, 2024.

    Toni Whited is the Frederick G L Huetwell Professor and Professor of Economics at the University of Michigan.

    The Engelbert-Dockner-Fellowship are sponsored by the POK Pühringer Privatstiftung and enable WU to invite renowned professors to spend an extended period at WU. With this initiative, we are also preserving the memory of Professor Engelbert Dockner, who passed away in 2017. Professor Dockner continuously fostered cutting-edge research and universities' educational mission in the field of capital markets.

  • October 2023: Florian Nagler is Engelbert-Dockner-Fellow at the ISK

    We are pleased to welcome Florian Nagler as Engelbert Dockner Fellow at the Research Institute for Capital Markets (ISK). Professor Nagler will visit WU from October 29 to November 26, 2023.
     

    Florian Nagler is an asistant professor of finance at Bocconi University and a research affiliate at IGIER.
    His research focuses on corporate finance, asset pricing, and OTC markets.

    The Engelbert-Dockner-Fellowship are sponsored by the POK Pühringer Privatstiftung and enable WU to invite renowned professors to spend an extended period at WU. With this initiative, we are also preserving the memory of Professor Engelbert Dockner, who passed away in 2017. Professor Dockner continuously fostered cutting-edge research and universities' educational mission in the field of capital markets.
     

  • August 2023: Youchang Wu is Engelbert-Dockner-Fellow at the ISK

    We are pleased to welcome Youchang WU as Engelbert Dockner Fellow at the Research Institute for Capital Markets (ISK). Professor Wu will visit WU from August 8 to September 12, 2023.

    Youchang Wu is an associate professor of finance, John B. Rogers Research Scholar, and finance PhD program coordinator at the Lundquist College of Business.
    His areas of expertise include delegated portfolio management, institutional investors, financial advice, corporate finance, and production networks.

    The Engelbert-Dockner-Fellowship are sponsored by the POK Pühringer Privatstiftung and enable WU to invite renowned professors to spend an extended period at WU. With this initiative, we are also preserving the memory of Professor Engelbert Dockner, who passed away in 2017. Professor Dockner continuously fostered cutting-edge research and universities' educational mission in the field of capital markets.


  • May 2023: Ron Giammarino is Engelbert-Dockner-Fellow at the ISK

    We are pleased to welcome Ron Giammarino as Engelbert Dockner Fellow at the Research Institute for Capital Markets (ISK). Professor Giammarino will visit WU from May 21 to June 12, 2023.

    Ron Giammarino is Professor in Corporate Finance at the UBC Sauder School of Business.

    His research interests include market microstructure, financial intermediation, financial regulation.

    The Engelbert-Dockner-Fellowship are sponsored by the POK Pühringer Privatstiftung and enable WU to invite renowned professors to spend an extended period at WU. With this initiative, we are also preserving the memory of Professor Engelbert Dockner, who passed away in 2017. Professor Dockner continuously fostered cutting-edge research and universities' educational mission in the field of capital markets.
     

  • April 2023: Martjin Boons is Engelbert-Dockner-Fellow at the ISK

    We are pleased to welcome Martjin Boons as Engelbert Dockner Fellow at the Research Institute for Capital Markets (ISK). Professor Boons will visit WU from April 9 to May 14 2023.
    Martijn Boons is Professor at the Department of Finance of the Tilburg School of Economics and Management.
    His research interests are in the areas of macrooeconomics and asset pricing.

    The Engelbert-Dockner-Fellowship are sponsored by the POK Pühringer Privatstiftung and enable WU to invite renowned professors to spend an extended period at WU. With this initiative, we are also preserving the memory of Professor Engelbert Dockner, who passed away in 2017. Professor Dockner continuously fostered cutting-edge research and universities' educational mission in the field of capital markets.
     

  • March 2023: Robert A. Korajczyk is Engelbert-Dockner-Fellow at the ISK

    We are pleased to welcome Robert A. Korajczyk as Engelbert Dockner Fellow at the Research Institute for Capital Markets (ISK). Professor Korajczyk will visit WU from 5 March to 2 April 2023.

    A member of the Kellogg School faculty since 1982, Robert A. Korajczyk is the Harry G. Guthmann Professor of Finance and co-director of the Center for Financial Institutions and Markets. His research interests are in the areas of investments and empirical asset pricing.

    The Engelbert-Dockner-Fellowship are sponsored by the POK Pühringer Privatstiftung and enable WU to invite renowned professors to spend an extended period at WU. With this initiative, we are also preserving the memory of Professor Engelbert Dockner, who passed away in 2017. Professor Dockner continuously fostered cutting-edge research and universities' educational mission in the field of capital markets.
     

  • January 2023: Submission for VSFX 2023 open

    We welcome submissions for the Vienna Symposium on Foreign Exchange Markets  (VFSX) 2023. The symposium will be held at the Palais Coburg in Vienna from August 14-15.

    Topics
    FX risk premia, FX strategies, FX valuation, FX and monetary policy, Emerging Market currencies, currency pegs, FX regimes, FX and business cycle, and related topics.
    The deadline for submission is March 1st, 2023.

    Please find further details and the submission form at www.wu.ac.at/en/isk/conferences/vsfx-2023/.
     

  • January 2023: Marco Pagano is Engelbert-Dockner-Fellow at the ISK

    We are pleased to welcome Marco Pagano, the Engelbert-Dockner-Fellow at the Research Institute for Capital Market Research (ISK). Professor Pagano will visit WU from January 10 to 13, 2023.
    Marco Pagano is Professor of Finance at the Department of Economics and Statistics at the University of Naples Federico II. His research is in the area of finance, chiefly banking, corporate finance and market microstructure.

    The Engelbert-Dockner-Fellowship are sponsored by the POK Pühringer Privatstiftung and enable WU to invite renowned professors to spend an extended period at WU. With this initiative, we are also preserving the memory of Professor Engelbert Dockner, who passed away in 2017. Professor Dockner continuously fostered cutting-edge research and universities' educational mission in the field of capital markets.

  • December 2022: Andreas Neuhierl is the Engelbert-Dockner-Fellow at the Research Institute for Capital Market Research (ISK)

    We are pleased to welcome Andreas Neuhierl, the Engelbert-Dockner-Fellow at the Research Institute for Capital Market Research (ISK). Professor Neuhierl will visit WU from December 11 to 23.

    Andreas Neuhierl is Assistant Professor of Finance at the Olin Business School of the Washington University in St. Louis. His research interests include asset econometrics, monetary policy, asset pricing und finance/investments. He publishes regularly in leading economics and finance journals such as the Review of Financial Studies and the Journal of Financial Economics.

    The Engelbert-Dockner-Fellowship are sponsored by the POK Pühringer Privatstiftung and enable WU to invite renowned professors to spend an extended period at WU. With this initiative, we are also preserving the memory of Professor Engelbert Dockner, who passed away in 2017. Professor Dockner continuously fostered cutting-edge research and universities' educational mission in the field of capital markets.
     

  • September 2022: Marco Pagano is Engelbert-Dockner-Fellow at the Institute for Capital Market Research (ISK)


    We are pleased to welcome Marco Pagano, the Engelbert-Dockner-Fellow at the Research Institute for Capital Market Research (ISK). Professor Pagano will visit WU from August 28 to September 8.

    Marco Pagano is Professor of Finance at the Department of Economics and Statistics at the University of Naples Federico II. His research is in the area of finance, chiefly banking, corporate finance and market microstructure.

    The Engelbert-Dockner-Fellowship are sponsored by the POK Pühringer Privatstiftung and enable WU to invite renowned professors to spend an extended period at WU. With this initiative, we are also preserving the memory of Professor Engelbert Dockner, who passed away in 2017. Professor Dockner continuously fostered cutting-edge research and universities' educational mission in the field of capital markets.
     

  • August 2022: Andreas Neuhierl is the Engelbert-Dockner-Fellow at the Research Institute for Capital Market Research (ISK)

    We are pleased to welcome Andreas Neuhierl, the Engelbert-Dockner-Fellow at the Research Institute for Capital Market Research (ISK). Professor Neuhierl will visit WU from August 14 to September 5.

    Andreas Neuhierl is Assistant Professor of Finance at the Olin Business School of the Washington University in St. Louis. His research interests include asset econometrics, monetary policy, asset pricing und finance/investments. He publishes regularly in leading economics and finance journals such as the Review of Financial Studies and the Journal of Financial Economics.

    The Engelbert-Dockner-Fellowship are sponsored by the POK Pühringer Privatstiftung and enable WU to invite renowned professors to spend an extended period at WU. With this initiative, we are also preserving the memory of Professor Engelbert Dockner, who passed away in 2017. Professor Dockner continuously fostered cutting-edge research and universities' educational mission in the field of capital markets.
     

  • August 2022: Russ Wermers is the Engelbert-Dockner-Fellow at the Research Institute for Capital Market Research (ISK)

    We are pleased to welcome Russ Wermers, the Engelbert-Dockner-Fellow at the Research Institute for Capital Market Research (ISK). Professor Wermers will visit WU from August 6 to 24.
     

    Russ Wermers is the Paul J. Cinquegrana ’63 Endowed Chair in Finance and Director, Center for Financial Policy at the Smith School of Business, University of Maryland at College Park, where he won a campus-wide teaching award during 2005 and a Krowe Teaching Award (within the Smith Business School) during 2013.  His main research interests include studies of the efficiency of securities markets, as well as the role of institutional investors in setting stock prices. In addition, he studies and teaches quantitative equity strategies, and is currently researching microfinance institutions in Thailand. His papers have been published in leading scholarly journals, such as The American Economic Review, The Review of Financial Studies, The Journal of Financial Economics, and The Journal of Finance. 

    The Engelbert-Dockner-Fellowship are sponsored by the POK Pühringer Privatstiftung and enable WU to invite renowned professors to spend an extended period at WU. With this initiative, we are also preserving the memory of Professor Engelbert Dockner, who passed away in 2017. Professor Dockner continuously fostered cutting-edge research and universities' educational mission in the field of capital markets.
     

  • April 2022: Andrea Vedolin is the Engelbert-Dockner-Fellow at the Research Institute for Capital Market Research (ISK)

    We are pleased to welcome Andrea Vedolin, the Engelbert-Dockner-Fellow at the Research Institute for Capital Market Research (ISK). Professor Vedolin will visit WU from April 24 to May 14.
     

    Andrea Vedolin is Associate Professor of Finance at the Boston University, Questrom School of Business. Her research interests include Asset Pricing and Financial Econometrics. She publishes regularly in leading economics and finance journals such as the Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies and the Journal of Financial Economics.

    The Engelbert-Dockner-Fellowship are sponsored by the POK Pühringer Privatstiftung and enable WU to invite renowned professors to spend an extended period at WU. With this initiative, we are also preserving the memory of Professor Engelbert Dockner, who passed away in 2017. Professor Dockner continuously fostered cutting-edge research and universities' educational mission in the field of capital markets.
     

  • March 2022: Michael Weber is the Engelbert-Dockner-Fellow at the Research Institute for Capital Market Research (ISK)

    We are pleased to welcome Michael Weber, the Engelbert-Dockner-Fellow at the Research Institute for Capital Market Research (ISK). Professor Weber will visit WU from March 11 to 19.

    Michael Weber is Associate Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research interests include asset pricing, macroeconomics, international finance and household finance. He publishes regularly in leading economics and finance journals such as the American Economic Review, the Review of Financial Studies and the Journal of Financial Economics.

    The Engelbert-Dockner-Fellowship are sponsored by the POK Pühringer Privatstiftung and enable WU to invite renowned professors to spend an extended period at WU. With this initiative, we are also preserving the memory of Professor Engelbert Dockner, who passed away in 2017. Professor Dockner continuously fostered cutting-edge research and universities' educational mission in the field of capital markets.
     

  • March 2022: Hanno Lustig is the Engelbert-Dockner-Fellow at the Research Institute for Capital Market Research (ISK)


    We are pleased to welcome Hanno Lustigi, the Engelbert-Dockner-Fellow at the Research Institute for Capital Market Research (ISK). Professor Lustig will visit WU from March 3 - 13.

    Hanno Lustig is the Mizuho Financial Group Professor of Finance at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University

    The Engelbert-Dockner-Fellowship is sponsored by the POK Pühringer Privatstiftung and enables WU to invite renowned professors to spend an extended period at WU. With this initiative, we are also preserving the memory of Professor Engelbert Dockner, who passed away in 2017. Professor Dockner continuously fostered cutting-edge research and universities' educational mission in the field of capital markets.
     

  • February 2022: Semyon Malamud is the Engelbert-Dockner-Fellow at the Research Institute for Capital Market Research (ISK)

    We are pleased to welcome Semyon Malamud, the Engelbert-Dockner-Fellow at the Research Institute for Capital Market Research (ISK). Professor Malamud will visit WU from February 5 to 25.

    Semyon Malamud is Senior Chair at the Swiss Finance Institute at the EPFL & CEPR and Associate Professor of Finance at the EPFL. He is a Lamfalussy Fellow of the European Central Bank and a winner of the joint INQUIRE Europe/UK research prize.

    His research interests include Liquidity and Market Frictions, International Finance, and Macroeconomics. He publishes regularly in leading economics and finance including Econometrica, American Economic Review, the Journal of Financial Economics and the Review of Financial Studies.

    The Engelbert-Dockner-Fellowship is sponsored by the POK Pühringer Privatstiftung and enables WU to invite renowned professors to spend an extended period at WU. With this initiative, we are also preserving the memory of Professor Engelbert Dockner, who passed away in 2017. Professor Dockner continuously fostered cutting-edge research and universities' educational mission in the field of capital markets.
     

  • January 2022: Submission for VSFX 2022 open

    We welcome submissions for the Vienna Symposium on Foreign Exchange Markets  (VFSX) 2022. The symposium will be held at the Palais Coburg in Vienna from August 22-23. We welcome papers on FX risk premia, FX strategies, FX valuation, FX and monetary policy, Emerging Market currencies, currency pegs, FX regimes, FX and business cycle, and related topics. The deadline for submission is March 1st, 2022. Please find further details and the submission form at www.wu.ac.at/en/isk/conferences/vsfx-2022/.
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  • September 2021: Alberto Rossi is the Engelbert-Dockner-Fellow at the Research Institute for Capital Market Research (ISK)

    We are pleased to welcome Alberto Rossi, the Engelbert-Dockner-Fellow at the Research Institute for Capital Market Research (ISK). Professor Rossi will visit WU from September 26 to November 5.
     

    Alberto Rossi is the Provost’s Distinguished Associate Professor of Finance at the McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University. He is also the Associate Director of the Center for Financial Markets and Policy at Georgetown and an Academic Fellow of the Luohan Academy.

    His research interests include FinTech, Household Finance, Machine Learning and Asset Pricing. Professor Rossi’s work has been published in leading academic journals such as the Journal of Finance, the Review of Financial Studies, the Journal of Financial Economics and Management Science.

    The Engelbert-Dockner-Fellowship is sponsored by the POK Pühringer Privatstiftung and enables WU to invite renowned professors to spend an extended period at WU. With this initiative, we are also preserving the memory of Professor Engelbert Dockner, who passed away in 2017. Professor Dockner continuously fostered cutting-edge research and universities' educational mission in the field of capital markets.
     

  • August 23-24, 2021: Annual Vienna Symposium on Foreign Exchange Markets and "WINNER" Best Paper Award Ceremony 2021.
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  • August 2021: Semyon Malamud is the Engelbert-Dockner-Fellow at the Research Institute for Capital Market Research (ISK)

    We are pleased to welcome Semyon Malamud, the Engelbert-Dockner-Fellow at the Research Institute for Capital Market Research (ISK). Professor Malamud will visit WU from August 8 to September 5.

    Semyon Malamud is Senior Chair at the Swiss Finance Institute at the EPFL & CEPR and Associate Professor of Finance at the EPFL. He is a Lamfalussy Fellow of the European Central Bank and a winner of the joint INQUIRE Europe/UK research prize.

    His research interests include Liquidity and Market Frictions, International Finance, and Macroeconomics. He publishes regularly in leading economics and finance including Econometrica, American Economic Review, the Journal of Financial Economics and the Review of Financial Studies.

    The Engelbert-Dockner-Fellowship is sponsored by the POK Pühringer Privatstiftung and enables WU to invite renowned professors to spend an extended period at WU. With this initiative, we are also preserving the memory of Professor Engelbert Dockner, who passed away in 2017. Professor Dockner continuously fostered cutting-edge research and universities' educational mission in the field of capital markets.
     

  • June 2021: Andreas Neuhierl is the Engelbert-Dockner-Fellow at the Research Institute for Capital Market Research (ISK)

    We are pleased to welcome Andreas Neuhierl, the Engelbert-Dockner-Fellow at the Research Institute for Capital Market Research (ISK). Professor Neuhierl will visit WU from June 8 to August 24.

    Andreas Neuhierl is Assistant Professor of Finance at the Olin Business School of the Washington University in St. Louis. His research interests include asset econometrics, monetary policy, asset pricing und finance/investments. He publishes regularly in leading economics and finance journals such as the Review of Financial Studies and the Journal of Financial Economics.

    The Engelbert-Dockner-Fellowship are sponsored by the POK Pühringer Privatstiftung and enable WU to invite renowned professors to spend an extended period at WU. With this initiative, we are also preserving the memory of Professor Engelbert Dockner, who passed away in 2017. Professor Dockner continuously fostered cutting-edge research and universities' educational mission in the field of capital markets.
     

  • January 2021: Call for Paper - Vienna Symposium on Foreign Exchange Markets

    The WU Research Institute for Capital Markets (ISK) will organize the annual Vienna Symposium on Foreign Exchange Markets from August 23-24, 2021 in Vienna at Palais Coburg.

  • August 17-18, 2020: Annual Vienna Symposium on Foreign Exchange Markets and "WINNER" Best Paper Award Ceremony 2020.
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  • August 2020: Michael Weber is the first Engelbert-Dockner-Fellow at the Research Institute for Capital Market Research (ISK)

    We are pleased to welcome Michael Weber, the first Engelbert-Dockner-Fellow at the Research Institute for Capital Market Research (ISK). Professor Weber will visit WU from August 1 to September 15.

    Michael Weber is Associate Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research interests include asset pricing, macroeconomics, international finance and household finance. He publishes regularly in leading economics and finance journals such as the American Economic Review, the Review of Financial Studies and the Journal of Financial Economics.

    The Engelbert-Dockner-Fellowship are sponsored by the POK Pühringer Privatstiftung and enable WU to invite renowned professors to spend an extended period at WU. With this initiative, we are also preserving the memory of Professor Engelbert Dockner, who passed away in 2017. Professor Dockner continuously fostered cutting-edge research and universities' educational mission in the field of capital markets.
     

  • May 2020: Continuation and expansion of the support programs by the Pühringer Group

    Research and teaching on endowment and portfolio management at WU has been supported by the Pühringer Group for over 10 years. We are pleased that we have now been able to contractually agree on a long-term continuation and expansion of the funding programs:

    - The Research Institute for Capital Markets (ISK) will receive funding from the Pühringer Group for another 10 years. Thus, the successful research work on investment strategies for endowments and long-term oriented investors can be continued. Further, this secures funding for several prae doc positions at the ISK.

    - The agreements lay the base for an endowment to the WU Institute of Finance, Banking and Insurance. The endowment will make a significant contribution to intensifying WU's globally visible cutting-edge research in the capital markets area. It will also serve as an important cornerstone for an innovative component of university financing and hopefully serve as a model for research financing in continental Europe.

    - The newly established Engelbert-Dockner-Fellowships will enable WU to invite renowned professors to spend several months at WU. With this initiative, we are also preserving the memory of Professor Engelbert Dockner, who passed away in 2017. Professor Dockner was passionate about the educational mission of universities and top-level and practice-oriented research in the area of investments and capital markets.

    Further innovative support for research and teaching in the field of finance has been agreed upon in separate contracts in recent years and will be continued alongside these new projects. For example, the Pühringer Group supports WU's Portfolio Management Program as well as regular academic conferences and research awards.

  • Annual Alumni Meeting 2020

    The Portfolio Management Program is an outstanding two-​year course where students manage real portfolios and enhance their academic knowledge. The annual alumni meeting in the Palais Coburg gives alumni and current students the opportunity to gain insights from the keynote presentation and allows for networking with colleagues and faculty.
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  • Call for Paper - Vienna Symposium on Foreign Exchange Markets

    The WU Research Institute for Capital Markets (ISK) will organize the annual Vienna Symposium on Foreign Exchange Markets from August 17-18, 2020 in Vienna at Palais Coburg.
     

  • August 2019: Second Vienna Symposium on Foreign Exchange Markets and "WINNER" Best Paper Award Ceremony 2019.
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  • March 2019: We congratulate our research associate Tom Oskar Karl Zeissler for winning the 2019 CFA Society Austria Prize. In his award-winning master thesis, he analyzed the performance of trading strategies in currency markets (characteristics versus carry). Piotr Kotlarz, former research assistant of Professor Josef Zechner at the WU Institute of Finance, Banking, and Insurance, won the third prize for his master thesis on the role of the real exchange rate in FX prediction, supervised by Prof. Otto Randl. Eligible for the CFA Society Austria Prize are master and PhD theses on an investments topic graded “excellent” at an Austrian university. With two out of three prizes, this is a big success for ISK!

  • August 2018: First Vienna Symposium on Foreign Exchange Markets and "WINNER" Best Paper Award Ceremony 2018.
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  • March 2018: Presentation of the paper “Systematic Risk Premia in EM Bond Markets” at the 17th Colloquium on Financial Markets – Asset Management in Cologne.

  • March 2018: Conference acceptance of “Currency Risk Premia in Emerging Markets” at the 25th GFA 2018 in Paris.

  • February – March 2018: Conference acceptances of “Systematic Risk Premia in EM Bond Markets” at the 27th EFMA 2018 in Milano, the 35th AFFI 2018 in Paris and the 25th MFS 2018 in Budapest.

  • January 2018: “WINNER” Best Paper Award 2018

    To promote applied research in the fields of empirical asset pricing and asset management the EUR 10’000 prize will be awarded. This year the prize focuses on foreign exchange again (FX risk premia, FX strategies, FX valuation, FX and monetary policy, Emerging Market currencies, currency pegs, etc.).
    Call for papers.

  • November 2017: "WINNER" Best Paper Award Ceremony 2017.
    Program
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  • November 2017: Presentation of the paper “Systematic Risk Premia in EM Bond Markets” at the 32nd AWG 2017 workshop in Obergurgl.
     

  • May 2017: Josef Zechner was appointed head of the research institute along with Stefan Bogner as vice head.
     

  • April 2017: The head of the institute, Engelbert Dockner, passed away on April 16, 2017. Engelbert Dockner was the driving force in founding the Research Institute for Capital Markets.
    obituary (in German).
     

  • January 2016: Presentation of the paper “A Natural Experiment in Portfolio Management” at the 76th AFA 2016 conference in San Francisco, USA.
     

  • May 2015: Presentation of the paper “A Natural Experiment in Portfolio Management” at the 77th VHB 2015 conference in Vienna.

  • November 2012: WU Best Paper Award from the city of Vienna for the paper Intermediated Investment Management (2011), Neal Stoughton, Youchang Wu and Josef Zechner, Journal of Finance, 66, 947-980. In the picture: Prof. Josef Zechner (left), Prof. Neal Stoughton (second to left), Prof. Hubert Christian Ehalt (second to right) and WU Vice-Rector Prof. Barbara Sporn (right).

  • April 2012: Prof. Neal Stoughton presented his paper "Strategic Mutual Fund Tournaments" at the 11th Köllner Finanzmarktkolloquium. The paper was awarded the "Outstanding Paper Award" at the conference. In the picture: Prof. Neal Stoughton (left) and Prof. Alexander Kempf (right).