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Wolfgang Drobetz

Wolfgang Drobetz

D-Index & Metrics

Business and Management

D-Index
38
Citations
8267
World Ranking
1836
National Ranking
54

Economics and Finance

D-Index
38
Citations
8312
World Ranking
2521
National Ranking
84

Wolfgang Drobetz publication distribution in Business and Management in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Business and Management in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Wolfgang Drobetz sits on this spectrum.

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35 publications 436+

This scientist: 212 publications — 78th percentile

78% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 436 publications or more.

Wolfgang Drobetz D-index placement in Business and Management in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Business and Management scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Wolfgang Drobetz sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 89+

This scientist: 38 D-Index — 41st percentile

41% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 89 D-Index or more.

Overview

Wolfgang Drobetz is affiliated with Universität Hamburg in Germany. Their research spans fields including Business, Management and Accounting as well as Economics, Econometrics and Finance. Within these broader areas, they have contributed extensively to subfields such as Accounting, Finance, Strategy and Management, Economics and Econometrics, and Management Science and Operations Research.

The scientist's work covers a variety of topics, notably Corporate Finance and Governance, Financial Markets and Investment Strategies, Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting, Private Equity and Venture Capital, Stock Market Forecasting Methods, FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance, and Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance.

Key recent papers include:

  • The effects of geopolitical risk and economic policy uncertainty on dry bulk shipping freight rates, 2020, Applied Economics
  • Empirical asset pricing via machine learning: evidence from the European stock market, 2021, Journal of Asset Management
  • Institutional investment horizons and firm valuation around the world, 2020, Journal of International Business Studies
  • Foreign Institutional Investors, Legal Origin, and Corporate Greenhouse Gas Emissions Disclosure, 2023, Journal of Business Ethics
  • Institutional investment horizons, corporate governance, and credit ratings: International evidence, 2021, Journal of Corporate Finance

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Wolfgang Drobetz include Sadok El Ghoul, Omrane Guedhami, Paul P. Momtaz, Henning Schröder, and Tizian Otto.

The scientist frequently publishes in notable venues such as:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Corporate Finance
  • Journal of International Business Studies
  • European Financial Management
  • Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization

Best Publications

  • Corporate Governance and Expected Stock Returns: Evidence from Germany

    Wolfgang Drobetz;Andreas Schillhofer;Heinz Zimmermann

  • An Integrated Framework of Corporate Governance and Firm Valuation

    Stefan Beiner;Wolfgang Drobetz;Markus M. Schmid;Heinz Zimmermann

  • What determines the speed of adjustment to the target capital structure

    Wolfgang Drobetz;Gabrielle Wanzenried

  • Information asymmetry and the value of cash

    Wolfgang Drobetz;Matthias C. Grüninger;Simone Hirschvogl

  • Policy uncertainty, investment, and the cost of capital

    Wolfgang Drobetz;Sadok El Ghoul;Omrane Guedhami;Malte Janzen

  • Is Board Size an Independent Corporate Governance Mechanism

    Stefan Beiner;Wolfgang Drobetz;Frank Schmid;Heinz Zimmermann

  • Corporate cash holdings: Evidence from Switzerland

    Wolfgang Drobetz;Matthias C. Grüninger

  • The international zero-leverage phenomenon

    Wolfgang Bessler;Wolfgang Drobetz;Rebekka Haller;Iwan Meier

  • Capital structure decisions of globally-listed shipping companies

    Wolfgang Drobetz;Dimitrios Gounopoulos;Andreas Merikas;Henning Schröder

  • Corporate Governance and Expected Stock Returns: Evidence from Germany

    Wolfgang Drobetz;Andreas Schillhofer;Heinz Zimmermann

  • An Integrated Framework of Corporate Governance and Firm Valuation

    Stefan Beiner;Stefan Beiner;Markus M. Schmid;Wolfgang Drobetz;Heinz Zimmermann

  • Information Asymmetry and Financing Decisions

    Wolfgang Bessler;Wolfgang Drobetz;Matthias C. Grüninger

  • An integrated framework of corporate governance and firm valuation : evidence from Switzerland

    Heinz Zimmermann;Stefan Beiner;Stefan Beiner;Wolfgang Drobetz;Markus Schmid

  • Portfolio insurance and prospect theory investors: Popularity and optimal design of capital protected financial products

    Hubert Dichtl;Wolfgang Drobetz

  • Long-Run Performance of Initial Public Offerings: The Evidence for Switzerland

    Wolfgang Drobetz;Matthias Kammermann;Urs Wälchli

  • Heterogeneity in the Speed of Capital Structure Adjustment across Countries and over the Business Cycle

    Wolfgang Drobetz;Dirk C. Schilling;Henning Schröder

  • How to avoid the pitfalls in portfolio optimization? Putting the Black-Litterman approach at work

    Wolfgang Drobetz

  • Corporate social responsibility disclosure: The case of international shipping

    Wolfgang Drobetz;Andreas Merikas;Anna Merika;Mike G. Tsionas

  • Dynamics of time-varying volatility in the dry bulk and tanker freight markets

    Wolfgang Drobetz;Tim Richter;Martin Wambach

  • Foreign Institutional Investors, Legal Origin, and Corporate Greenhouse Gas Emissions Disclosure

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  • Financing Shipping Companies and Shipping Operations: A Risk‐Management Perspective

    Stefan Albertijn;Wolfgang Bessler;Wolfgang Drobetz

  • Common risk factors in the returns of shipping stocks

    Wolfgang Drobetz;Dirk Schilling;Lars Tegtmeier

  • Is Board Size an Independent Corporate Governance Mechanism

    Stefan Beiner;Stefan Beiner;Wolfgang Drobetz;Frank Schmid;Heinz Zimmermann

Frequent Co-Authors

Sadok El Ghoul
Sadok El Ghoul University of Alberta
Omrane Guedhami
Omrane Guedhami University of South Carolina
Klaus Gugler
Klaus Gugler Vienna University of Economics and Business
Dirk G. Baur
Dirk G. Baur University of Western Australia
Lawrence Kryzanowski
Lawrence Kryzanowski Concordia University
H. Kent Baker
H. Kent Baker American University
Paul Brockman
Paul Brockman Lehigh University

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