Rainer Jankowitsch

Univ.Prof. Dr. Rainer Jankowitsch is a Professor of Finance at WU (University of Economics and Business Vienna), with a research focus on

• Corporate bond markets
• Credit and liquidity risk
• ESG factors in fixed income
• Credit rating systems
• Structured finance

He has published extensively on sovereign debt, market transparency, and regulatory impacts since the early 2000s.

His recent work (2024-2025) explores ESG favoritism in mutual fund families, greenness demand for corporate bonds, and political uncertainty effects on sovereign markets. Earlier studies (2016-2022) analyzed ABS markets, credit recovery rates, and rating game dynamics.

Key article trends reveal expertise in

• Liquidity measurement in OTC markets
• Credit risk decomposition
• Rating informativeness
• LIBOR manipulation
• ESG premium quantification
• Bond covenant valuation

Despite extensive collaborations (Handler, Pasler, Subrahmanyam, Pauer), no student advisory list is publicly available. He maintains active research through working papers and peer-reviewed journals.