
Victor Wagner
I am a final-year accounting Ph.D. student at LMU Munich School of Management and currently visiting The University of Chicago, Booth School of Business.
My research focuses on the evolution of the sustainability-related information environment.
Working papers
- Targeting Transparency: Early Evidence on Mandatory Adoption of European Sustainability Reporting Standards (SSRN) with Charlotte-Louise Donau, Katharina Hombach, Inga Meringdal, Maximilian A. Müller, and Thorsten Sellhorn.
- Climate Disclosure in Financial Statements (SSRN) with Maximilian A. Müller, Gaizka Ormazabal, and Thorsten Sellhorn.
- Aligning the Stars for the Global Baseline: The Problems, Policies and Politics of Creating the ISSB with Christoph Pelger, Thorsten Sellhorn, and Katharina Weiß.
- Assessing corporate sustainability in Europe between 2014 and 2023 with Kerstin Forster, Lucas Keil, Maximilian A. Müller, Thorsten Sellhorn, and Stefan Feuerriegel.
Book chapters
- The Forces that Shape Mandatory ESG Reporting (Edward Elgar Research Handbook on Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance) with Thorsten Sellhorn.
- The Path to the First IFRS Sustainability Disclosure Standards (Edward Elgar Research Handbook on Sustainability Reporting) with Christoph Pelger, Thorsten Sellhorn, and Katharina Weiß.
- ESG-Berichterstattung - Konzept, okonomischer Hintergrund und Entwicklung (Praxishandbuch ESG) with Thorsten Sellhorn.
Papers in German practitioner journals
- Standards für die Nachhaltigkeitsberichterstattung im Vergleich (WPg 13/2023) with Thorsten Sellhorn, Katharina Hombach, and Maximilian A. Müller.
- Gap-Assessment zur Klimaberichterstattung am deutschen Kapitalmarkt (Der Betrieb 9/2023) with Thorsten Sellhorn, Maximilian A. Müller, Katharina Hombach, Charlotte-Louise Donau, and Inga Meringdal.
- Erstanwendung der EU-Taxonomie: Eine empirische Analyse deutscher Unternehmen (KoR 6/2022) with Ann-Kristin Großkopf and Thorsten Sellhorn.
- Das International Sustainability Standards Board und globale Standards für Nachhaltigkeitsberichterstattung (Der Betrieb 1/2022) with Thorsten Sellhorn.
- Globale Standards für Nachhaltigkeitsberichterstattung: Eine kritische Analyse des Vorstoßes der IFRS-Stiftung (Der Betrieb 30/2021) with Ann-Kristin Großkopf, Thorsten Sellhorn, and Katharina Weiß.

Co-Founder of the Sustainability Reporting Navigator

Member of the TRR 266 Accounting for Transparency network
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