About me
current affiliation:
Free University of Bozen-Bolzano - School of Economics and Management
Full Professor in Quantitative Finance
Vice-Rector for Studies
former affiliation:
Technical University of Denmark - Financial Engineering
fields of research and teaching:
life-cycle asset allocation decisions, asset-liability management, pension finance
theoretical and empirical asset pricing, financial engineering, scenario generation
financial risk management, quantitative methods for financial institutions
market microstructure, strategic information processing, information economics
selected publications
Hanke M., Stoeckl S., Weissensteiner A. (2020), Political event portfolios, Journal of Banking & Finance, 118, 105883 (DOI)
Dangl T., Weissensteiner A. (2020), Optimal portfolios under time-varying investment opportunities, parameter uncertainty and ambiguity aversion, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 55(4), 1163-1198 (DOI)
Branger N., Lucivjanska K., Weissensteiner A. (2019), Optimal granularity for portfolio choice, Journal of Empirical Finance, 50, 125-146 (DOI)
Weissensteiner A. (2019), Correlated noise: Why passive investments might improve market efficiency, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 158, 158-172 (DOI)
Hanke M., Poulsen R., Weissensteiner A. (2019), The CHF/EUR exchange rate during the Swiss National Bank’s minimum exchange rate policy: A latent likelihood approach, Quantitative Finance, 19(1), 1-11 (DOI), lead article (Features)
Hanke M., Poulsen R., Weissensteiner A. (2018), Event-related exchange rate forecasts combining betting quotes and risk-neutral densities from option prices, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 53(6), 2663-2683 (DOI)
Hanke M., Penev S., Schief W., Weissensteiner A. (2017), Random orthogonal matrix simulation with exact means, covariances, and multivariate skewness, European Journal of Operational Research, 263(2), 510-523 (DOI)
Geyer A., Hanke M., Weissensteiner A. (2014), No-arbitrage ROM simulation, Journal of Economic Dynamics & Control, 45, 66-79 (DOI)
Marinelli C., Weissensteiner A. (2014), On the relation between forecast precision and trading profitability of financial analysts, Journal of Financial Markets, 20, 39-60 (DOI)
Geyer A., Hanke M., Weissensteiner A. (2014), No-arbitrage bounds for financial scenarios, European Journal of Operational Research, 236, 657-663 (DOI)
Ferstl R., Weissensteiner A. (2011), Asset-liability management under time-varying investment opportunities, Journal of Banking & Finance, 35(1), 182-192 (DOI)
NEW WORK
Hanke M., Stöckl S., Weissensteiner A., US Presidential Election 2024 - stock portfolios (Link)
Dangl T., Galappi L., Weissensteiner A., Conservative holdings, aggressive trades: Ambiguity, learning, and equilibrium flows (SSRN)
presentation: 6th Jackson Hole Finance Group Conference. Jackson Hole, WY, January 14 – 16, 2023
presentation: SGF Conference 2023, Zurich, CH, March 31, 2023
presentation: NFA 2023 Annual Meeting, Toronto, CA, September 8-10, 2023
presentation: DGF 2023 Annual Meeting, Hohenheim, D, September 28-29, 2023
presentation: AFA 2024 Annual Meeting, San Antonio, USA, January 5-7, 2024
Bressan S., Weissensteiner A., Stock returns and scores of banks (SSRN)
editorial board membership: Risks (editor Mogens Steffensen, University of Copenhagen)
EU grant (2016): "Understanding Pensions in Europe", EU-Link
EU grant (2019): "Understanding Saving in Europe", EU-Link
current collaborations: N. Branger, T. Dangl, L. Garlappi, M. Hanke, R. Poulsen