
Unsere Lehrstühle & Center:
Unsere Fakultätsmitglieder:

Prof. Dr.
Nihat Aktas
Lehrstuhl für Mergers & Acquisitions
+49 (0)261 6509 224
E-Mail senden

Prof. Dr.
Christian Andres
Lehrstuhl für Empirical Corporate Finance
+49 (0)261 6509 225
E-Mail senden

Prof. Dr.
Martin Glaum
Lehrstuhl für Internationale Rechnungslegung
+49 (0)261 6509 315
E-Mail senden

Prof. Dr.
Martin Jacob
adidas Lehrstuhl für Finanzen, Rechnungswesen und Steuerlehre
+49 (0)261 6509 350
E-Mail senden

Prof. Dr.
Lutz Johanning
Lehrstuhl für Empirische Kapitalmarktforschung
+49 (0)261 6509 721
E-Mail senden

Prof. Dr.
Markus Rudolf
Allianz Stiftungslehrstuhl für Finanzwirtschaft
+49 (0)261 6509 421
E-Mail senden

Prof. Dr.
Nic Schaub
Lehrstuhl für Household Finance
+49 (0)261 6509 817
E-Mail senden

Prof. Dr.
Mei Wang
Lehrstuhl für Behavioral Finance
+49 (0)261 6509 220
E-Mail senden

Prof. Dr.
Burcin Yurtoglu
Lehrstuhl für Corporate Finance
+49 (0)261 6509 710
E-Mail senden

Jun.-Prof. Dr.
Lisa Hillmann
+49 (0)261 6509 355
E-Mail senden
Mehr erfahren

Jun.-Prof. Dr.
Magdalena Pisa
+49 (0)261 6509 812
E-Mail senden
Mehr erfahren

Jun.-Prof. Dr.
Simon Straumann
+49 (0)261 6509 396
E-Mail senden
Mehr erfahren

Jun.-Prof. Dr.
Barbara Stage
+49 (0)261 6509 357
E-Mail senden
Mehr erfahren

Apl. Prof. Dr.
Katrin Baedorf
+49 (0)261 6509 153
E-Mail senden

Prof. Dr. Paul Achleitner

Prof. Dr. Andreas Barckow

Prof. Dr. Hartmut Leser

Prof. Dr. Edgar Löw

Prof. Dr. Axel Wieandt

Associate Professor Dr.
Michael Erkens

Jan Caspar Hoffmann

Dr. Tobias Keller

Prof. Dr. Frank Hechtner

Sven Westphälinger
Anstehende und vergangene Forschungsseminare –
Zu den Themen Accounting, Steuern und Finanzwesen.
Nächste WHU Forschungsseminare zum Thema Finance:
- 09. September 2023: Kasper Meisner Nielsen, Copenhagen Business School
- 14. September 2023: Laurent Weill, University of Strasbourg
- 21. September 2023: Christoph Merkle, Aarhus University
- 28. September 2023: Florian Weigert, University of Neuchatel
- 12. Oktober 2023: Alessandro Previtero, Indiana University
- 26. Oktober 2023: Yigitcan Karabulut, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management
March 21,2022 | Associate Professor Rebecca Lester | Stanford Graduate School of Business |
April 4,2022 | Assistant Professor Stephen Glaeser | UNC Kenan Flagler Business School |
April 13, 2022 | Assistant Professor Benjamin Yost | Boston College, Caroll School of Management |
Spring 2020
-
March 6, 2020: Jaron Wilde (University of Iowa)- “Beyond Borders: Supergovernment Monitoring and Tax Enforcement”
-
January 10, 2020: Maria Loumioti (Naveen Jindal School of Management - University of Texas at Dallas)- “Direct Lending: The Determinants, Characteristics and Performance of Direct Loans”
Fall 2019
-
January 10, 2020: Maria Loumioti (Naveen Jindal School of Management, The University of Texas) - "The Determinants, Characteristics and Performance of Direct Loan"
-
December 6, 2019: Doris Merkl-Davies (Bangor Business School)- “Does voluntary tax reporting result in increased tax transparency? The case of Vodafone”
-
November 29, 2019: Dominika Langenmayr (KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt)- “Trading Offshore: Evidence on Banks' Tax Avoidance”
-
November 8, 2019: Jacco Wielhouwer (VU Amsterdam)- “The effect of tax rates and tariffs on transfer pricing components”
-
October 25, 2019: Dirk Schindler (Erasmus University Rotterdam)- “Income Shifting and Management Incentives”
-
October 18, 2019: Annelies Renders (Maastricht University)- “Do Changes in Financial Reporting Standards Improve Capital Allocational Efficiency? An Industry-Focused Analysis”
-
September 27, 2019: Miguel Duro (IESE Business School University of Navarra)- “Debiasing the Measurement of Conditional Conservatism”
mehr lesen
Frühjahr 2023
- 25. Januar 2023: Michael Halliasson, Goethe University
"Wealth Inequality: Opportunity or Unfairness" - 23. Februar 2023: Guosong Xu, Rotterdam School of Management
"Involuntarily green? Corporate donations to politicians and their votes on environmental legislation” - 09. März 2023: Martin Brown, Study Center Gerzensee/University St. Gallen
"Consumer Adoption of Financial Technology: Contactless Card Payments during the COVID-19 Pandemic” - 16. März 2023: Falko Fecht, Deutsche Bundesbank
"Financial fragility in open-ended mutual funds: the role of liquidity management tools" - 30. März 2023: Felix Fattinger, Vienna University
"Trading Complex Risks"
Herbst 2022
- 06. September 2022: Zoran Filipovic, Paris Dauphine Universität
"The Intangibles Song in Takeover Announcements: Good Tempo, Hollow Tune" - 20. September 2022: Rik Frehen, Universität Tilburg
"How harmful is insider trading for outsiders? Evidence from the eighteenth century” - 27. September 2022: Christoph Herpfer, Emory Universität
"The Hidden Costs of Government Shutdowns" - 04. Oktober 2022: Yannis Tsalavoutas, Universität Glasgow
“R&D tax incentives and R&D investment efficiency: International Evidence”
Frühling 2022
- 12. April 2022, Wolfgang Drobetz, Hamburg University
“Foreign Bias in Institutional Portfolio Allocation: The Role of Social Trust” - 05. April 2022, Vesa Pursiainen, University of St. Gallen
"Reputational Costs of Litigation"
Herbst 2021
- 05. Oktober 2021, Linus Siming, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
"Bank Green Bonds" - 28. September 2021, Paul Momtaz, Goethe University
"Revisiting the Private Equity Discount: Evidence from SEC’s shortening of the mandatory holding period of restricted PIPE securities" - 21. September 2021, Fabio Braggion, Tilburg University
"Credit Provision and Stock Trading: Evidence from the South Sea Bubble"
Frühling 2021
- 16. März 2021, Joey Engelberg, UC San Diego
"Echo Chambers" - 09. Feb. 2021 Elisabeth Kempf, University of Chicago
"Fifty Shades of QE: Conflicts of Interest in Economic Research"
Herbst 2020
- 15. Sept. 2020 Matthias Muck, University of Bamberg
"Smile Construction on FX Option Markets Using Garman-Kohlhagen Deltas and Implied Volatilities" - 29. Sept. 2020 Alberto Manconi, Bocconi University
"Are Star Firms Also Better Law Firms?"
Frühling 2020
- 04. Feb. 2020 Stefan Ruenzi, University of Mannheim
"The Impact of Role Models on Women’s Self-selection in Competitive Environments" - 11. Feb. 2020 Oliver Spalt, University of Mannheim
"Litigating Innovation: Evidence from Securities Class Action Lawsuits" - 03. March 2020 Christine Laudenbach, Goethe University Frankfurt
"Do Women Get Worse Financial Advice?" - 14. April 2020 Steffen Meyer, University of Southern Denmark
Herbst 2019
-
22. Aug. 2019 Yakov Amihud, NY Stern University
"Liquidity and asset pricing II" -
10. Sept. 2019 Markus Schmid, University St. Gallen
"As California goes, so goes the nation? Gender quotas and the legislation of non-economic values" -
17. Sept. 2019 Thomas Lambert, Rotterdam School of Management
"Crowdfunding Dynamics" -
September 24, 2019 Eli Fich, LeBow College of Business, Drexel University
"Class Action Spillover Effects on Joint Venture Partners" -
October 22, 2019 Yinggang Zhou, Xiamen University
"Return and volatility transmission between the Chinese and international oil futures markets" -
November 19, 2019 Shantanu Banerjee, Lancester University
"Predatory Advertising, Financial Fraud, and Leverage" -
November 26, 2019 Christoph Schneider Tilburg University
"Mergers and Acquisitions and the reallocation of labour" -
December 03, 2019 Tereza Tykvová, University of Hohenheim
"Are Private Equity Investments Bad News for Peers?"
Frühling 2019
-
19. Feb. 2019 Jasmin Gider, Tilburg University, NL
"The Dollar Profits to Insider Trading" -
12. Mar. 2019 Alessia de Stefani, Danmarks National Bank
"Real Effects on Relaxing Financial Constraints for Homeowners: Evidence from Danish Firms" -
9. April 2019 Gonul Colak, Hanken School of Economics
"Commitment or constraint? The effect of loan covenants on M&A activity"
Herbst 2018
-
18. Aug 2018 Yakov Amihud, NY Stern University
Liquidity spillovers -
11. Sept. 2018 Dimitris Andriosopoulos of Strathclyde University, Glasgow
Overpayment, Financial Distress and Investor Horizons -
18. Sept. 2018 Jean-Gabriel Cousin, University of Lille
Stock market driven acquisitions? Is there really an association between acquirer equity overvaluation and full stock-swaps in M&A transactions?” -
25. Sept. 2018 Diane Pierret, HEC University of Lausanne
Stressed Banks -
23. Oct. 2018 Eliezer Fich, Drexel University
Shareholder Litigation and the Information Environment -
29. Oct. 2018 Michael Weber, Chicago Booth
Human Frictions in the Transmission of Economic Policy -
06. Nov. 2018 Andrey Golubov, Rotman School of Management
The run-up in acquirer returns -
13. Nov. 2018 Eric de Bodt, University of Lille
Coporate Rivalry and Return Comovement
Frühling 2018
-
23. Jan 2018 Paul Smeets, Maastricht University
Let’s Invite the Women
Women Reduce Overconfidence in Groups -
06. Feb 2018 Amedeo De Cesari, University of Manchester
Employment Protection and Share Repurchases: Evidence from Wrongful Discharge Laws -
13. March 2018 David Florysiak, University of Southern Denmark
An Autopsy of a Total Stock Market Failure -
20. March 2018 Markku Kaustia, Aalto University School of Business
Hidden Investment Beliefs -
10. April 2018 Bernard Black, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
The Trouble with Instruments: Re-examining Shock-IV Designs -
17. April 2018 Aksel Mjøs, Norwegian School of Economics (NHH)
Credit supply shocks, financial constraints and investments for small and medium-sized firms -
24. April 2018 Daniel Ferreira, London School of Economics (LSE)
Board Quotas and Director-Firm Matching
Herbst 2017
-
28. Aug. 2017 Ralf Elsas, LMU Munich
The Dark Side of Short Selling -
29. Aug 2017 Yakov Amihud, Stern NY
Liquidity, Investment & Production -
05. Sept 2017 Audra Boone, Neeley School of Business
Political Uncertainty and Firm Disclosure -
28. Nov 2017 Marius A. Zoican, University Paris Dauphine
Smart Settlement -
05. Dec. 2017 Farzad Saidi, Stockholm School of Economics
Life Below Zero: Bank Lending Under Negative Policy Rates -
10. Dec. 2017 Ulf von Lilienfeld-Toal, University of Luxembourg
Identifying the Benefits from Home Ownership: A Swedish Experiment
Frühling 2017
-
21. Feb 2017 Igor Goncharov, Lancaster University, UK
Do central banks try to avoid losses? Why? And does it matter for policy? -
07. March 2017 Christodoulos Louca, Cyprus University of Technology
IPO Allocations and New Mutual Funds -
14. March 2017 Philipp Schuster, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute of Finance, Banking and Insurance
Volume Dependent Bond Liquidity Measures and Their Asset Pricing Implications -
21. March 2017 Paul Guest, Surrey Business School, UK
Board Ethnic Diversity and Monitoring -
28. March 2017 Cláudia Custódio, Imperial College Business School, UK
Compensation and Real Estate Prices -
25. April 2017 Denis Gromb, HEC Paris
The Paradox of Pledgeability
Herbst 2016
-
30. Aug 2016 Yakov Amihud, NY Stern University
Governance and Company Value -
06. Sep 2016 Raghavendra Rau, University of Cambridge
Can Serial Acquirers be profiled?
Evangelical Investors and the Evolution of Local Bias -
13. Sep 2016 Eliezer Fich, LeBow Drexel University
Advertising, Attention, and Acquisition Returns -
27. Spet 2016 Aurore Burietz, IESEG School of Management
Europe versus the U.S.: A New Look at the Syndicated Loan Pricing Puzzle -
25. Oct 2016 Martin Schmalz, University of Michigan
Common Ownership, Competition, and Top Management Incentives -
08. Nov 2016 Antonio Gledson de Carvalho, FGV, Brazil
Dotcom Bubble and Underpricing: Conjecture and Evidence -
22. Nov 2016 Astrid Schornick, INSEAD
Household Investments, limited Participation and Equity Premia when Wealth matters -
29. Nov 2016 Alexander Hillert, Research Center SAFE & Goethe University Frankfurt
Mutual Fund Shareholder Letters: Flows, Performance, and Managerial Behavior
Frühling 2016
-
31. May 2016 Yupana Wiwattanakantang, National University of Singapore
Exit in Family Firms -
15. March 2016 Georges Hübner, University of Liège and Maastricht University
size and value matter, but not the way you thought -
08. March 2016 Evren Ors, HEC Paris
Risk-Based Capital Requirements for Banks and International Trade -
23. Feb. 2016 Kevin Aretz, Manchester Business School
Conflicting Security Laws and The Democratization of Credit: France’s Reform of the Napoleonic Code -
16. Feb. 2016 Christian Schlag, House of Finance, Goethe-University Frankfurt
Does Ambiguity about Volatility Matter Empirically -
02. Feb. 2016 Eva Schliephake, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University of Bonn
Unique Equilibrium in a Model of Contingent Capital -
26. Jan. 2016 Tibor Neugebauer, University of Luxembourg
Underpricing of Initial Public Offerings in Experimental Asset Markets
Herbst 2015
-
30. July 2015 Yakov Amihud, New York University, Leonard N. Stern School of Business
The information content of dividend increase announcements:
Signaling and agency costs -
15. Sept. 2015 Peter Limbach, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Financial Advisors and M&A Leakage -
22. Sept. 2015 Jarrad Harford, University of Washington
Do Long-Term Investors Improve Corporate Decision Making? -
29. Sept. 2015 Dimitris Petmezas, University of Surre
The Role of Corporate Political Strategies in M&As -
03. Nov. 2015 Tobias Berg, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
Got rejected? Real effects of not getting a loan -
17. Nov. 2015 Ruediger Fahlenbrach, Swiss Finance Institute, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
How Do Investors and Firms React to an unexpected Currency Appreciation Shock? -
01. Dec. 2015 Zacharias Sautner, Frankfurt School of Finance
The Retention Effects of Unvested Equity: Evidence from Accelerated Option Vesting
Frühling 2015
-
03. March 2015 Bo Becker, Stockholm School of Economics
Bad times, Good credit -
10. March 2015 Sascha Steffen, European School of Management and Technology
Zero Risk Contagion - Banks' Sovereign Exposure and Sovereign Risk Spillovers -
24. March 2015 Tereza Tykvová, Universität Hohenheim
Special Purpose Acquisition Companies - Are They an Alternative to IPOs? -
28. April 2015 Andreas Kaeck, University of Sussex
Variance-of-Variance Risk Premium
Herbst 2014
-
18. August 2014 Yakov Amihud, New York University, Leonard N. Stern School of Business
The Pricing of Corporate Foreign Trade Risk -
16. September 2014 Ettore Crocia, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy
Decision‐Making during the Credit Crisis: Why did the Treasury let Commercial Banks fail? -
28. October 2014 Daniel Metzger, Stockholm School of Economics
Why Do Shareholder Votes Matter? -
04. November 2014 Karin Thorburn, NHH Norwegian School of Economics
Are stock-financed takeovers opportunistic? -
11. November 2014 Nikolaos Karampatsas, Surrey University
Do Rating Agencies affect Acquisition Decisions? -
18. November 2014 Markus Glaser, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Managerial Voting Power and Firm Value -
02. December 2014 Oguzhan Ozbas, USC - Koc University
Managerial Accommodation, Proxy Access, and the Cost of Shareholder Empowerment
Frühling 2014
-
28. January 2014 Alexander Kempf, University of Cologne
Are Financial Advisors Useful? Evidence from Tax-Motivated Mutual Fund Flows -
05. March 2014 Francois Derrien, HEC Paris
The effects of investment bank rankings: evidence from M&A league tables -
11. March 2014 Mark Wahrenburg, Goethe University
Information Asymmetry around Operational Risk Announcements -
18.March 2014 Christine Zulehner Goethe Universität Frankfurt, SAFE
Competition in Austrian Treasury Auctions -
25. March 2014 Prof. Dr. Roland Füss, Swiss Institute of Banking and Finance s/bf – HSG, University of St. Gallen
Why Do Local House Prices React so Differently to a Monetary Stimulus? -
01. April 2014 Prof. Dr. Marco Becht, University libre de Bruxelles
Does Mandatory Shareholder Voting Prevent Bad Acquisitions? -
08. April 2014 Ernst Maug, University of Mannheim
Labor Representation in Governance as an Insurance Mechanism -
15. April 2014 Alexander Groh, EMLYON
Same Rules, Different Enforcement: Market Abuse in Europe -
29. April 2014 Serif Aziz Simsir, Sabanci University
Deal Initiation in Mergers and Acquisitions -
06. May 2014 Henry Servaes, London Business School
Distressed Acquisitions
Herbst 2013
-
26. Sept. 2013 Ulrike Malmendier, UC Berkeley
Learning from Inflation Experiences -
08. Oct. 2013 Dan Li, The University of Hong Kong
Correlated HFT Strategy -
15. Oct. 2013 Marion Declerck, University of Lille
Product Market Competition and Merger Activity -
29. Oct. 2013 Wenxuan Hou, Edinburgh University
The role of dissenters in boards: Evidence from outside director activism -
05. Nov. 2013 Christian Koziol, Universität Tübingen
The Risk of Low Volatility Stocks: A Theoretical Explanation for an Empirical Puzzle -
12. Nov. 2013 Philipp Geiler, EMLYON
Are Female Top Managers Really Paid Less? -
19. Nov. 2013 Hendrik Hakenes, University of Bonn
Regulatory Capture by Sophistication -
26. Nov.2013 Bernd Rudolph, LMU München
Mindesteigenkapitalvorschriften für Banken im Lichte des Kapitalkostenkonzepts -
03. Dec. 2013 Yishay Yafeh, Hebrew University
Business Groups in the United States: A Revised History of Corporate
Ownership, Pyramids and Regulation, 1930-1950
Frühling 2013
-
05. March 2013 Thomas Stoeckl, Innsbruck University, School of Management
Price efficiency and trading behavior in limit order markets with competing insiders -
12. March 2013 Peter Limbach, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology KIT
Mind the Gap! The Age Difference Between the CEO and Chair -
19. March 2013 Dion Bongaerts, Rotterdam School of Management - ERIM
Can alternative business models discipline credit rating agencies? -
16. April 2013 Hannes Wagner, Università Bocconi
Wrath of the Titans - CEO disciplining the World's largest Firms -
23. April 2013 Günter Franke, Universität Konstanz
Pre Crisis-Tranching and Pricing in CDO-Transactions -
30. April 2013 Hans Degryse, KU Leuven & Tillburg University
Suffrage Institutions and Financial Development: Does the Middle Class Have a Say? -
07. May 2013 Dennis Dlugosch, WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management
Relation between Equity Home Bias and Ambiguity Aversion: An International Study
Herbst 2012
-
18. Sept. 2012 Erik Theissen, University of Mannheim
The Market Reaction to Corporate Disclosure -
02. Oct. 2012 Ulrich Hofbaur, WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management
Sequential Patterns in Quarterly Dividend Changes and the Corresponding Stock Markets Reactions -
09. Oct. 2012 Jos van Bommel, University of Luxembourg
Monte Carlo Valuation of Derivatives -
23. Oct. 2012 Burcin Yurtoglu, WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management
Firm-Level Corporate Governance and Market Value: Evidence from Turkey -
30. Oct. 2012 Josef Zechner, WU Wien
Granularity of Corporate Dept: Theory and Tests -
06. Nov. 2012 Heiko Jacobs, University of Mannheim
Losing Sight of the Trees for the Forest? Attention Shifts and Pairs Trading -
13. Nov. 2012 Andreas Hackethal / Steffen Mayer, Goethe Universität
Passive Aggressive: Index-Linked Securities and Individual Investors -
20. Nov. 2012 Joerg Rocholl, ESMT Berlin
Flight to Where? Evidence from Bank investments During the Financial Crisis -
27. Nov. 2012 Denis Schweizer, WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management
Executive Compensation and informed Trading in Acquiring Firms around Merger Announcements -
04. Dec. 2012 Morten Bennedsen, INSEAD
Estimating the Value of the Boss: Evidence from CEO Hospitalization Events
Für Finance Forschungsseminare:

Prof. Dr.
Nic Schaub
+49 (0)261 6509 817
nic.schaub(at)whu.edu
Für Accounting Forschungsseminare:

WHU Finance Lab
Besuchen Sie das neue WHU Finance Lab
Seit Anfang 2019 ist das WHU Finance Lab für Studierende und Besucher geöffnet. So werden beste Voraussetzungen für die Ausbildung in Finance geschaffen und eine Verbindung zur Praxis hergestellt.
ERFAHREN SIE MEHR
WHU Finance Lab
Besuchen Sie das neue WHU Finance Lab
Seit Anfang 2019 ist das WHU Finance Lab für Studierende und Besucher geöffnet. So werden beste Voraussetzungen für die Ausbildung in Finance geschaffen und eine Verbindung zur Praxis hergestellt.
ERFAHREN SIE MEHR