Hannes Wagner

Hannes Wagner is an Associate Professor of Finance at Università Bocconi, a Fellow at the IGIER Institute for Economic Research and an appointed member of the ECGI, the European Corporate Governance Institute.

He has been a Visiting Professor at London Business School and INSEAD. At SDA Bocconi, Hannes currently teaches in the MBA program. Hannes conducts prize-winning research focusing on corporate finance, investor activism, corporate social responsibility, institutional investors and corporate misconduct. His recent research on asset management was sponsored by the Government Pension Fund of Norway. He is the recipient of several awards, including the 2020 Michael J. Brennan Runner Up Award for best paper published in the Review of Financial Studies on secret offshore vehicles uncovered in the Panama Papers, the inaugural 2015 AAM CAMRI Prize in Asset Management for his research on hedge fund activism, the 2012 European Finance Association Award for best conference paper for his research on family firm performance during the financial crisis, and the 2014 award for Best Paper in Corporate Finance at the Southwestern Finance Association for his research on outside director compensation.

Hannes has won multiple teaching awards while teaching executives and non-executives at Bocconi, Rotterdam School of Management, the University of Oxford, the Duisenberg School of Finance and the University of Munich.

Teaching domains

• Financial Management
• Capital Budgeting
• Corporate Sustainability
• Financial Markets & Instruments
• Sustainable Accounting & Finance

Latest publications

DYCK A., LINS K. V., ROTH L., WAGNER H. Do institutional investors drive corporate social responsibility? International evidence Journal of Financial Economics, 2019, vol.131, no. 3, pp.693-714

BECHT M., WAGNER H., FRANKS J., GRANT J. The Early Returns to International Hedge Fund Activism: 2000–2010 Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, 2019, vol.31, no. 1, pp.62-80

BENNEDSEN M., WAGNER H., HUANG S., ZEUME S. Family Firms and Labor Market Regulation The Review of Corporate Finance Studies, 2019, vol.8, no. 2, pp.348-379

O’DONOVAN J., WAGNER H., ZEUME S. The Value of Offshore Secrets: Evidence from the Panama Papers Review of Financial Studies, 2019, vol.32, no. 11, pp.4117–4155

FEDASEYEU V., LINCK J., WAGNER H. Do Qualifications Matter? New Evidence on Board Functions and Director Compensation Journal of Corporate Finance, 2018, vol.48, pp.816-839

WAGNER H., BECHT M., FRANKS J., GRANT J. Returns to Hedge Fund Activism: An International Study Review of Financial Studies, 2017, vol.30, no. 9, pp.2933-2971