Dr Dieter VANWALLEGHEM

Qualifications

• PhD. in Finance, University of Pennsylvania, Wharton business school (September 2008 – August 2014)
• Msc. in Financial Economics, University of Oxford, Saïd business school, Oxford, OX, United Kingdom, (September 2006 – June 2007)
• MA in applied economics (lic. TEW), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Department of economics, Leuven, VBR, Belgium (September 2002 – September 2006)

Work Experience

Academic

• iMBA Director, Rennes School of Business (September 2019 – Present)
• Assistant professor, Finance & Accounting Academic area, Rennes School of Business (May, 2015 – Present).
• Teaching Assistant, University of Pennsylvania, Wharton business school Philadelphia, PA, United States (September 2009 – June 2013)
• Voluntary researcher, University of Antwerp, Department of economics, Antwerp, ANT, Belgium (November 2014 – 2015)
  (Research Project: 2014 Barometer of corporate social responsibility in Belgium

Intellectual contributions

Refereed Articles Discipline-Based Scholarship

• Jad H. Bazih, Dieter Vanwalleghem (2021) Deriving value or risk? Determinants and the impact of emerging market banks’ derivative usage. Research in International Business and Finance, Volume 56, Issue 1, April 2021, 101379
• Vanwalleghem, Dieter , Canan Yildirim, and Anthony Mukanya, 2020 “Leveraging local knowledge or global advantage: Cross border bank mergers and acquisitions in Africa.” Emerging Markets Review : Volume 42, March 2020, 100656
•  Dowling, Michael , Colm O’Gorman, Petya Puncheva, and Dieter Vanwalleghem, (2019) “Trust and SME attitudes towards equity financing across Europe.” Journal of World Business : Vol 54(6), 101003, pp. 1-16
• Vanwalleghem, D., Mirowska, A. (2020) The investor that could and would: The effect of proactive personality on sustainable investment choice. Journal of Behavioral and Exprimental Finance, Volume 26, June 2020, 100313.
• Dowling, Michael and Dieter Vanwalleghem, “Gulf Cooperation Council Cross-Border M&A: Institutional Determinants of Target Nation Selection.” Research in International Business and Finance 46. (2018): 471-489.
• Vanwalleghem, Dieter , “The real effects of sustainable and responsible investing?” Economic Letters 156. (2017): 10-14.
• Demoor, VanLiedekerke and Vanwalleghem, “The Risk-return of Belgian SRI funds. Tijdschrift voor Economie en Management“, 52 673-685 (2007)

Refereed proceedings – Discipline-Based Scholarship

• Dieter Vanwalleghem, Carmela D’Avino. Functional distance and local bank lending. 9th Conférence Euro-Africaine en Finance et Economie/ Mediterranean Workshop in Economic Theory, Rennes, France, 3-4 June 2024
• Roloff, J., Vanwalleghem, D. How do impact investors evaluate the financial value and impact of ventures? European Business Ethics Network (EBEN) Annual Conference, Athens, Greece, 29-31 May 2024
• Vanwalleghem Dieter, D’Avino Carmela. The formal and informal institutional determinants of US banks’ foreign branch activities. 30th Global Finance Conference, Treviso, Italy, 12-14 June 2023
• Vanwalleghem, Dieter, Yildirim, Canan and Anthony Mukanya. Leveraging local knowledge or global advantage: cross border bank mergers and acquisitions in Africa. In: 10th International research Meeting in Business and Management (IRMBAM 2019), Nice, France, July 2019
• Vanwalleghem, Dieter, Yildirim, Canan and Anthony Mukanya. Leveraging local knowledge or global advantage: Cross border bank mergers and acquisitions in Africa. In: IFABS, Angers, France, June 2019
• Vanwalleghem, Dieter, Yildirim, Canan and Anthony Mukanya. Leveraging local knowledge or global advantage: Cross border bank mergers and acquisitions in Africa. In: Seventh Spring Conference of the Multinational Finance Society, Creete, Greece, April 2019
• Dowling, Michael, Vanwalleghem, Dieter. A region at the crossroads: cross-border M&A by Gulf Council countries. In: INFINITI 2016 Asia-Pacific, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam, December 2016