Josef Zechner
Full Member of the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences since 2004
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Research Areas:
- Economics
Profile:
Selected Prizes:
- Sharpe Award for the best paper published in the 2021 volume of the JFQA “Granularity of Corporate Debt”
- Distinguished Speaker at 56th Annual Conference of the Western Finance Association, 2021
- WU Award for Outstanding Research Achievements (Österreich), 2019
- Financial Research Association's 2016 Best Paper Award (USA)
- Jack Treynor Prize (Q-Group) (USA), 2015
Selected Publications:
- Marco Pagano; Christian Wagner; and Josef Zechner, (forthcoming 2023) Disaster Resilience and Asset Prices. Journal of Financial Economics.
- Thomas Dangl and Josef Zechner, (2021) Debt Maturity and the Dynamics of Leverage. The Review of Financial Studies, 34 (12), pp. 5796–5840.
- Berk, Jonathan; Stanton, Richard; Zechner, Josef (2010) Human Capital, Bankruptcy and Capital Structure. The Journal of Finance, Bd. 65, S. 891-892.
- Admati, Anat R.; Pfleiderer, Paul; Zechner, Josef (1994) Large Shareholder Activism, Risk Sharing, and Financial Market Equilibrium. The Journal of Political Economy, Bd. 102, S. 1097-1130.
- Fischer, Edwin O.; Heinkel, Robert; Zechner, Josef (1989) Dynamic Recapitalization Policies and the Role of Call Premia and Issue Discounts. Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Bd. 24, S. 427-446.