Position at IIB, other positions and academic career

Jakob Müllner is Associate Professor at the Institute of International Business at WU-Vienna. His research seeks to integrate finance and international business perspectives. It focuses on financing international business and financial risk management strategies in internationalization. He published in ABS 4 ranked journals in the disciplines International Finance, International Business and Management (e.g. Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of World Business). He was nominated for Haynes Prize for most promising scholar (AIB), the Carolyn B. Dexter Award (AOM), the Alan Rugman Young Scholar Award (AIB) and received the Distinguished Paper Award from the Academy of Management Strategy Division in 2019. Jakob Müllner serves as track chair for International Finance, Accounting and Corporate Governance in the European International Business Association (EIBA) and co-founded the annual WU-Vienna IB & Finance Paper Development Workshop. Teaching International Corporate Finance and Foreign Exchange Management at WU-Vienna and Copenhagen Business School (CBS), Jakob Müllner has been awarded five teaching excellence awards by WU Vienna. He had a visiting research position at New York University, Stern School of Business.

Research Interests

• International project finance

• Risk management in market entry

• Foreign direct investment in high risk countries

• Cost of capital and firm internationalization

• Political risk an non-market strategies

• Private equity and venture capital

• Foreign exchange risk management

• Foreign exchange management and investment in China

• Loan syndication and international alliances

• Financial risk management and structured finance

• SME Internationalization, ownership governance and capital structure