VGSF Conference
2025 VGSF Conference
Location: WU Vienna Campus, Austria
Date: September 29-30, 2025
Chairs: Alexander Mürmann (WU Vienna), Josef Zechner (WU Vienna)
Program
September 29, 2025
| Geneviève Buess | When Engagement Falls Short: The Impact of Failed E/S Shareholder Proposals and Media Attention on ESG Performance |
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| Samuel Karaba | Pricing the New Oil: Critical Minerals as a Key Element of Shareholder Value |
| Elena Sponga | Looking for a Man in Finance? An Experiment on Fund Manager Gender and Investor Perception |
| Gioele Barbano | The role of Non-Bank Financial Intermediaries during financial vulnerability periods |
| Marcell Tatar | Impact of News on Financial Markets |
| Moritz Rodenkirchen | Analysts & Expected Returns |
| Kristóf Reizinger | How Does the Introduction of a Capital Gains Tax Affect Investment Decisions? |
| Nils Kerwien | Insider Trading and Managerial Compensation |
| Emilio Jalil Lohi | Green but Passive? Shareholder Activism in the Age of Greenwashing |
September 30, 2025
| Pan Yiming | Institutional Ownership Concentration and the Equity Pricing Anomalies |
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| Elizabeth Rinde | Life Insurers and Reinsurance |
| Aron Bodisz | A Structural Model of Exchange Coexistence: Limit Order Book and Automated Market Maker |
| Thi Thuy Dung Phung | Do retail investors of U.S. mutual funds react to foreign natural disaster events? |
| Matthias Reiner | Pricing Climate Event Risks and Opportunities in the Options Market |
| Tanja Brieden | Net Interest Margin Smoothing – Evidence from US Banks |
| Zhou Ren | Real Effects of Bernanke – Kuttner: The Risk Channel of Monetary Policy on Corporate Investment |
| Yuan Chen | Is Correlation Neglect Bad for Portfolio Diversification? |
This annual conference provides students with the opportunity to present their research and progress to the entire VGSF faculty and receive valuable insights and feedback.