Alexander Hillert

Prof. Dr. Alexander Hillert serves as Co-Director of the Department "Financial Intermediation" and Professor for Finance and Data Science at the Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE, affiliated with Goethe University Frankfurt's House of Finance. Previously, he held the professorship of Sustainable Asset Management at the same institution.

Dr. Hillert's research examines how capital market participants collect, process, and interpret information, with expertise in empirical asset pricing and corporate finance. His distinctive approach applies computational linguistics methods to analyze textual information in financial markets.

His key research areas include:

• Textual Analysis and Unstructured Data in Finance
• Empirical Asset Pricing
• Behavioral Finance
• Empirical Corporate Finance
• Information Processing Mechanisms
• Computational Methods in Finance

Dr. Hillert's publications appear in premier finance journals including the Journal of Financial Economics and Review of Financial Studies. His work reveals how textual information influences market behavior, with studies on investor recognition patterns, media impact on momentum trading, and corporate actions like stock repurchases.

He received his Ph.D. from the Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences at the University of Mannheim and maintains active research at the intersection of finance, economics, and data science through SAFE's Financial Intermediation department and Data Center.