Alexander Wagner

New video summarizing my research on COVID-19 with Simon Glossner, Pedro Matos and @StefanoRamelli

#PaperSpotlight: Investor Rewards to #climate Responsibility: Stock-Price Responses to the Opposite Shocks of the 2016 and 2020 U.S. #Elections by @StefanoRamelli, @AlexFWagner, Richard J Zeckhauser @Kennedy_School, and Alexandre Ziegler @UZH_en academic.oup.com/rcfs/advance-a…

Forthcoming: Investor Rewards to Climate Responsibility: Stock-Price Responses to the Opposite Shocks of the 2016 and 2020 U.S. Elections by @StefanoRamelli, @AlexFWagner, Richard J Zeckhauser, and Alexandre Ziegler @UZH_en academic.oup.com/rcfs/advance-a…

Is there a connection between the 2008 financial crisis & COVID-19? @antmoreno716 @unav, @AlexFWagner, Ongena @UZH_en @uzh_bf & Veghazy @ecb show that European countries more affected by the financial crisis had more deaths relative to Covid cases: ow.ly/ZHwn50DXb7n

Features forthcoming paper from RCFS by @StefanoRamelli, @AlexFWagner, Richard Zeckhauser, and Alexandre Ziegler (article is in German) "The boomerang effect: Investors ignored Donald Trump's climate policy - and were rewarded for it" nzz.ch/finanzen/der-b… via @NZZ

Special Issue: #COVID-19 Pandemic Crisis & Corporate Finance This special issue is the first to be published by a finance journal on COVID & corp finance. It presents important early research on the economic impact of the pandemic. FREE to read online! academic.oup.com/rcfs/issue/9/3

Very uncool: Die Schweiz verspielt gerade den erreichten Erfolg mit Covid-19. Wir haben zu viel geöffnet & falsche Sicherheit vorgespiegelt. Um Schlimmeres zu verhindern, braucht es dringend strengere Massnahmen. Das ist wichtig sowohl für die Gesundheit wie für die Wirtschaft.

Pls. share the job post below. Thanks🙏 @AlexFWagner @GFelbermayr @APeichl @FuestClemens @Lars_Feld @DavidAJaeger @simon_jaeger @MHuberEcon @econ_hmg @HO2604 @chr_mich @monikaturyna

Simon Glossner @DardenMBA, Pedro Matos, Stefano Ramelli @StefanoRamelli @uzh_bf, Alexander F. Wagner @AlexFWagner @SFI_CH @cepr_org : Where Do Institutional Investors Seek Shelter when Disaster Strikes? Evidence from COVID-19 mailchi.mp/ecgi/wp-688-20…

Lewis Carroll, author of Alice in Wonderland, was fond of asking children mathematical puzzles. Here's a famous one: Can you draw the following design on a sheet of paper without lifting the pencil from the paper (no intersections allowed)?

Physics Photo Of the Day: This iconic photograph taken at the Fifth Solvay Conference shows the greatest gathering of intelligence ever. Physicists met in October 1927 in Brussels to discuss the then-new theory of quantum mechanics.

Check out bloomberg.com/opinion/articl… on the different behavior of investor groups in the #covid19 crisis - the newest paper by @AlexFWagner and @StefanoRamelli @markets!

World turned upside down? Japan and Switzerland are now the only major 10 yr government bonds on which you can earn a positive real rate of return! @bcaresearch via @SoberLook

Today is π Approximation Day 22/7 = 3.14285714286 Archimedes wrote the first known proof that 22/7>π in the 3rd century BCE Here's another:

This is amazing - Tokyo train station melodies, played on calculators.

Short answer (2): OK, but it took some time. Even large and immediate changes to cash flows due to unfamiliar events seem hard to predict.

Short answer (1): Very big, with many winners, but quite a few losers.

We have a new paper on the US Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA): papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… Main questions: (1) How big were the recurring and one-time impacts of the TCJA? (2) How effective was the market in pricing these impacts?

#PaperSpotlight: Feverish Stock Price Reactions to COVID-19 by @StefanoRamelli and @AlexFWagner @UZH_en