The Stephan Koren Prize was established by the Membership Association of WU Full Professors in 1996, it has been awarded annually ever since. The prize aims to support early-stage researchers by giving their work broad public visibility. It is presented to doctoral graduates whose outstanding dissertations have made a significant contribution to WU’s excellent reputation as a research university.

This year, a large number of excellent applications were submitted again. From these applications, a jury composed of WU Vienna professors selected eight doctoral dissertations to be awarded the Stephan Koren Prize.

This year’s awards were presented on November 7 during a doctoral graduation ceremony held in WU’s Ceremonial Hall. Tina Wakolbinger, chair of the Membership Association of WU Full Professors, handed over the Stephan Koren Prize certificates to the following winners (from left to right):

Michael Wolfesberger: Configuring and Restructuring MNCs’ Foreign Investment Portfolios in a Challenging Political Environment

Tina Rametsteiner: Rechte der Natur: Eine rechtsvergleichende Untersuchung unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der „Rechte von Flüssen“

Anna Walter-Dockx: Essays in Experimental Economics

Martin Klokar: Die Zeit im Ertragsteuerrecht

Milena Nagengast: Evaluation in Earnings Announcements: an Analysis of their Accounting Narratives and their Impact on a Firm’s Value (not present in the photo)

Three further winners were unable to attend the award ceremony:

Felix Artner: Der Beweis im Versicherungsrecht

Christian Diem: Shock propagation and systemic risk in production and financial exposure networks

Julia Litofcenko: Mapping Civil Society: A political perspective through the lens of automated text analysis

Congratulations to all the winners!