Congratulations to our Graduates

On Decem­ber 6th, 2018 the Ph.D. stu­dents of the Vi­enna Gradu­ate School of Fin­ance (VGSF) who gradu­ate between 2015 and 2018 re­ceived the aca­demic title of Doc­tor of Philo­sophy (PhD). The ce­re­mony is held every three years and it is a gath­er­ing event for the entire VGSF com­munity.

The ce­re­mony key­note ad­dress was given by Marti G. Sub­rah­man­yam, Char­les E. Mer­rill Pro­fessor of Fin­ance, Eco­nom­ics and In­ter­na­tional Busi­ness at NYU Stern (US). He has a long time re­la­tion­ship with Aus­tria, which dates back to 1980 when he met Prof. Josef Zech­ner, who at the time was com­plet­ing his PhD stud­ies. Prof. Sub­rah­man­yam ad­dressed the gradu­ates by giv­ing seven lessons learnt over his five dec­ades of aca­demic life. His ad­vices covered not only re­search and teach­ing, but they also ad­dressed private life and re­la­tion­ship with the out­side aca­demia world.

Con­grat­u­la­tions to our gradu­ates and we wish them a suc­cess­ful ca­reer!

The Gradu­ates:

• Nikolay Dinev is work­ing at CUDOS Cap­ital as Senior In­vest­ment Man­ager. He gradu­ated with the dis­ser­ta­tion “Es­says in Fin­ance”
• Ro­man Gon­char­enko is work­ing at KU Leuven as Assist­ant Pro­fessor. He gradu­ated with the dis­ser­ta­tion “The Ad­verse Ef­fects of Bank Reg­u­la­tion: CoCos and Stress Test­ing”
• Mar­lene Haas is work­ing at Corner­stone Re­search as As­so­ci­ate. She gradu­ated with the dis­ser­ta­tion “Price Dis­cov­ery and Mul­ti­mar­ket Trad­ing”
• Li He is work­ing at Er­asmus Uni­versity Rot­ter­dam as Assist­ant Pro­fessor. She gradu­ated with the dis­ser­ta­tion “Payroll and Fin­an­cial Lever­age”
• Juraj Hledik is work­ing at the European Cent­ral Bank. He gradu­ated with the dis­ser­ta­tion “Cor­rel­ated As­sets and Con­ta­gious De­faults”
• Akos Hor­vath is work­ing at Fed­eral Re­serve Board of Gov­ernors as Econom­ist in the Su­per­vi­sion and Reg­u­la­tion De­part­ment. He gradu­ated with the dis­ser­ta­tion “Sup­port­ing SMEs in the Post-Crisis Economy: Em­pir­ical Evid­ence of Soft Loans in Hun­gary”
• Na­gler Florian is work­ing at Boc­coni Uni­versity as Assist­ant Pro­fessor. He gradu­ated with the dis­ser­ta­tion “Credit and Li­quid­ity Risk in Cor­por­ate Bond Mar­kets”
• Roberto Pinto is work­ing at Lan­caster Uni­versity Man­age­ment School as Assist­ant Pro­fessor. He gradu­ated with the dis­ser­ta­tion “Levered Em­ploy­ees”
• Tho­mas Rauter is work­ing at the Uni­versity of Ch­icago Booth School of Busi­ness as Assist­ant Pro­fessor. He gradu­ated with the dis­ser­ta­tion “Dis­clos­ure Reg­u­la­tion, Cor­rup­tion, and In­vest­ment: Evid­ence from Nat­ural Re­source Ex­trac­tion”
• Ju­lia Reyn­olds is work­ing at the Uni­versità della Svizzera itali­ana (USI Lugano) as Post-­Doc­toral Re­search Fel­low. She gradu­ated with the dis­ser­ta­tion “In for the Long Haul: Act­iv­ist Hedge Funds and Fra­gil­ity Risk”
• An­gel Ten­gu­lov is now work­ing at Vander­bilt Uni­versity as Post-­Doc­toral Re­search Fel­low: He gradu­ated with the dis­ser­ta­tion “Es­says in Cor­por­ate Fin­ance”