Alexander Bassen

Prof. Dr. Alexander Bassen holds the Chair of Capital Markets and Management at the University of Hamburg's Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences. His research focuses on sustainable finance, corporate governance, and ESG integration in capital markets. He leads a research team including doctoral researchers and collaborators like Prof. Dr. Kerstin Lopatta, with recent publications on climate risk valuation, institutional investor behavior, and ESG performance analysis.

• Research Interests: Sustainable finance, ESG metrics, corporate governance, investor relations, and M&A sustainability impacts.
• Academic Collaborations: Works with Kerstin Lopatta, Timo Busch, and other scholars in Germany and Europe.

His team includes doctoral researchers Ernst-Kenji Alexander, Angelina Garweg, Niklas Graumann, Mara Harms, Thomas Tammen, Finn Wendland, and Dr. Christine Zöllner. Recent articles examine carbon exposure valuation, thermal coal divestment impacts, and ESG-climate finance intersections.