Wolfgang Drobetz es Senior Research Fellow en IAE Business School y Profesor Titular en la University of Hamburg Business School, donde es titular de la cátedra de Corporate Finance and Portfolio Management. Obtuvo su doctorado en la University of St. Gallen y su habilitation en la University of Basel.

Sus áreas de investigación incluyen finanzas corporativas, gobierno corporativo, asset management y ship finance.

Es Research Fellow en Cambridge Judge Business School (University of Cambridge) y miembro del comité editorial de diversas revistas académicas. Además, es director científico fundador del Hamburg Financial Research Center (HFRC), un think tank independiente orientado a facilitar el diálogo entre la academia, la política y el mundo empresarial.

Publicaciones Destacadas:

• Beyond Ownership: The Role of Institutional Investors in International Corporate Governance, 2025, with Sadok El Ghoul, Omrane Guedhami, and Xinya Yu, Corporate Governance: An International Review 33(5), 1024–1038.
• Estimating Security Betas via Machine Learning, 2025, with Fabian Hollstein, Tizian Otto, and Marcel Prokopczuk, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 60(3), 1074-1110.
• Token-Based Crowdfunding: Investor Choice and the Optimal Timing of Initial Coin Offerings, 2025, with Lars Hornuf, Paul P. Momtaz, and Niclas Schermann, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 49(1), 232-282.
• Financing Decentralized Digital Platform Growth: The Role of Crypto Funds in Blockchain-Based Startups, 2025, with Douglas J. Cumming, Paul P. Momtaz, and Niclas Schermann, Journal of Business Venturing 40(1), Article 106450.
• Predicting Corporate Bond Illiquidity via Machine Learning, 2024, with Axel Cabrol, Tizian Otto, and Tatajana Puhan, Financial Analysts Journal 80(3), 103-127.
• Do Foreign Institutional Investors Affect International Contracting? Evidence from Bond Covenants, 2024, with Paul Brockman, Sadok El Ghoul, Omrane Guedhami, and Ying Zheng, Journal of International Business Studies 55, 551-576.
• Foreign Bias in Institutional Portfolio Allocation: The Role of Social Trust, 2023, with Marwin Mönkemeyer, Ignacio Requejo, and Henning Schröder, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 214, 233-269.
• Performance Measurement of Crypto Funds, 2023, with Niclas Dombrowski and Paul P. Momtaz, Economics Letters 228, Article 111118.
• Forecasting Stock Market Crashes via Machine Learning, 2023, with Hubert Dichtl and Tizian Otto, Journal of Financial Stability 65, Article 101099.
• Foreign Institutional Investors, Legal Origin, and Corporate Greenhouse Gas Emissions Disclosure, 2023, with Simon Döring, Sadok El Ghoul, Omrane Guedhami, and Henning Schröder, Journal of Business Ethics 182, 903-932-
• Institutional Investment Horizons, Corporate Governance, and Credit Ratings: International Evidence, 2021, with Hamdi Driss, Sadok El Ghoul, and Omrane Guedhami, Journal of Corporate Finance 67, Article 101874.
• The Economics of Law Enforcement: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Corporate Takeover Law, 2021, with Gishan Dissanaike, Paul P. Momtaz, and Jörg Rocholl, Journal of Corporate Finance 67, Article 101849.
• Institutional Investor Horizons and Firm Valuation around the World, 2021, with Simon Döring, Sadok El Ghoul, Omrane Guedhami, and Henning Schröder, Journal of International Business Studies 52(2), 212-244.