Hannes Wagner

Associate Professor
Knowledge groupFinance
Research domainsCorporate Finance
Teaching domainsFinancial Management, Capital Budgeting, Corporate Sustainability, Financial Markets & Instruments, Sustainable Accounting & Finance
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Hannes Wagner

Biography

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.

Born in Germany, Hannes earned his doctoral degree at the Ludwig Maximilans University of Munich. A keen rower, he is married with two children. 

Recent Publications

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  • 2024
    Data leaks and tax havens
    WAGNER, H., S. ZEUME, "Data leaks and tax havens" in Research Handbook on the Economics of Tax Havens., Arjan Lejour, Dirk Schindler (Eds.), Edward Elgar Publishing, chap. 3, pp. 40-61, 2024
  • 2023
    Renewable Governance: Good for the Environment?
    DYCK, A., K. V. LINS, L. ROTH, M. TOWNER, H. WAGNER, "Renewable Governance: Good for the Environment?", Journal of Accounting Research, 2023, vol. 61, no. 1, pp. 279-327
  • 2023
    Renewable governance: Is it good for the environment? - Governance rinnovabile: fa bene all’ambiente?
    WAGNER, H., "Renewable governance: Is it good for the environment? - Governance rinnovabile: fa bene all’ambiente?", SDA Bocconi Insight, 24 October 2023
  • 2019
    Do institutional investors drive corporate social responsibility? International evidence
    DYCK, A., K. V. LINS, L. ROTH, H. WAGNER, "Do institutional investors drive corporate social responsibility? International evidence", Journal of Financial Economics, 2019, vol. 131, no. 3, pp. 693-714
  • 2019
    The Value of Offshore Secrets: Evidence from the Panama Papers
    O’DONOVAN, J., H. WAGNER, S. ZEUME, "The Value of Offshore Secrets: Evidence from the Panama Papers", Review of Financial Studies, 2019, vol. 32, no. 11, pp. 4117–4155
  • 2019
    The Early Returns to International Hedge Fund Activism: 2000–2010
    BECHT, M., H. WAGNER, J. FRANKS, J. GRANT, "The Early Returns to International Hedge Fund Activism: 2000–2010", Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, 2019, vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 62-80
  • 2019
    Family Firms and Labor Market Regulation
    BENNEDSEN, M., H. WAGNER, S. HUANG, S. ZEUME, "Family Firms and Labor Market Regulation", The Review of Corporate Finance Studies, 2019, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 348-379
  • 2018
    Do Qualifications Matter? New Evidence on Board Functions and Director Compensation
    FEDASEYEU, V., J. LINCK, H. WAGNER, "Do Qualifications Matter? New Evidence on Board Functions and Director Compensation", Journal of Corporate Finance, 2018, vol. 48, pp. 816-839
  • 2017
    Returns to Hedge Fund Activism: An International Study
    WAGNER, H., M. BECHT, J. FRANKS, J. GRANT, "Returns to Hedge Fund Activism: An International Study", Review of Financial Studies, 2017, vol. 30, no. 9, pp. 2933-2971
  • 2015
    The Survival of the Weakest: Flourishing Family Firms in Germany
    WAGNER, H., J. FRANKS, C. MAYER, "The Survival of the Weakest: Flourishing Family Firms in Germany", Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, 2015, vol. 27, no. 4, pp. 27-35

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Grants & Honors

  • Excellence in Research Award, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, 2023

  • Teaching Award - Undergraduate School, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, 2021

  • Runner-up, Michael J. Brennan Award for Best Paper published in The Review of Financial Studies, Society for Financial Studies, 2020

  • Winner, Best Paper Award, FMA Global Conference in Latin America, Bogotá, 2019

  • Winner, WRDS Best Conference Paper Award, 12th Annual Corporate Governance Conference, Drexel University, 2019

  • Winner, Best Unpublished Research Honorable Mention Award, Family Firm Institute, 2018

  • Runner-up, Investment for Impact Research Prize, Center for Responsible Business, Haas School of Business, University of California Berkeley, 2017

  • Innovation in Teaching Award, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, 2017