Prof. Alexander Braun
SFI Faculty Member, Associate Professor of Insurance and Capital Markets, University of St.Gallen
Alexander Braun is Associate Professor of Insurance and Capital Markets and Director at the Institute of Insurance Economics of the University of St.Gallen. Before an academic career in which he has received several research awards, Professor Braun worked within the capital market division of Lehman Brothers in London.
Expertise
Professor Braun focuses on natural catastrophe risk, insurance-linked securities, digital insurance, and sustainable insurance. He has recently begun to study how natural disaster risk is priced in the capital market, how it impacts firms' cost of equity, and which factors can explain the expected excess returns on catastrophe bonds. He also works on the impact of new digital insurance models such as on-demand insurance for risk classification and decentralized insurance. Finally, his work identifies ways the insurance industry can help mitigate climate change and its impact.
Expertise Fields
- Portfolio Management and Asset Classes
- Asset Pricing
- Fixed Income
- Financial Institutions
- Insurance Companies
- Corporate Finance and Governance
- Financial Risk and Risk Management
- Financial Valuation
- Frontier Topics
- Big Data and Fintech
- Sustainable Finance