Prof. Stefan Weik

Stefan Weik is Assistant Professor of Finance at University of St. Gallen. He obtained a PhD in Finance from the Technical University of Munich (TUM). His research has been featured in Handelsblatt and WirtschaftsWoche, and has been cited by the European Commission and the German Government.

Professor Weik studies private capital markets, with a particular focus on venture capital, private equity, and the economics of innovation and entrepreneurship. His most recent research examines the startup performance disadvantage in Europe by analyzing startup migration across international borders. For this purpose, he collected novel data allowing him to report new descriptive facts of international startup migration and associated startup performance. His results show that Europe's underdeveloped funding market is likely the primary obstacle to startup performance, while product and exit markets do not seem to hinder European startup performance much.

• Financial Institutions
  • Venture Capital and Private Equity
• Corporate Finance and Governance
  • Corporate Governance and Managerial Compensation
  • Financial Valuation
  • Financing Policy and Capital Structure
• Frontier Topics
  • Big Data and Fintech