Job Market Candidates

The faculty of the Vienna Graduate School of Finance is pleased to offer the following job candidates for your consideration. Full details on their job market papers, their fields of interest, and the doctoral committee are presented below.

Our students will be available for interviews at the 2012 AFA meetings, and at the EIF Job Market in Finance and Accounting. Their references, whose websites are provided below, will be happy to discuss their progress should you wish a more detailed assessment of their research and scholarly potential. 

2011-2012 Job Market Candidates

Name

Job Market Paper

Research Interests

References

Videos

András Danis

Do Empty Creditors Matter? Evidence from Distressed Exchange Offers

Bankruptcy and financial distress, incentive problems in financial markets, optimal capital structure

Christopher Hennessy
Klaus Ritzberger
Toni Whited
Josef Zechner

Andras

Eda Orhun

Defence vs Offence: Disclosure and Media in Takeovers

Financial Disclosure, Banking and Financial Intermediation, and Game Theory

Zsuzsanna Fluck
Maarten Janssen
Klaus Ritzberger

Eda

Daniel Rettl

Growth Opportunities, Cash Holdings and Payout Policy

Empirical Corporate Finance; Capital Structure Choice, Cash Holdings, and Payout Policy

Engelbert Dockner
Robert Hauswald
Toni Whited
Josef Zechner

Daniel

Past Placements

2011:

Juliusz Radwanski -- Carnegie Mellon University
Hamed Ghoddusi -- MIT
Natalia Ivanova -- University of Vienna

2010:

Matthias Buehlmaier -- University of Hong Kong
Michael Kisser -- NHH Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration
Baran Siyahhan -- University of Aarhus
Jin Yu -- The University of New South Wales (UNSW)

Graduates from the precursor program CCEFM:

Michael Halling -- University of Utah
Paul Schneider -- Warwick Business School - University of Warwick
Youchang Wu -- University of Wisconsin-Madison