Alexander Braun

Publications on Research Platform Alexandria

Insurance Economics

Asset Pricing

• 2001: Accounting, Karl Storz GmbH & Co. KG, Tuttlingen
• 2003: Management Accounting, BASF AG, Ludwigshafen
• 2005: Strategic Marketing, SAP Deutschland AG & Co. KG, Walldorf
• 2006: Global Markets, Deutsche Bank AG, Frankfurt am Main
• 2007-2008: Senior Analyst Capital Markets, Lehman Brothers, London, UK
• 2009-2011: Research Associate, Institute of Insurance Economics, University of St. Gallen   
• 2011-2013: Project Leader, Institute of Insurance Economics, University of St. Gallen   
• 2013-2017: Assistant Professor of Risk Management, University of St. Gallen
• 2015-2021: Vice Director, Institute of Insurance Economics, University of St. Gallen       
• 2017-2021: Affiliated Professor of Risk Management, University of St. Gallen 
• 2019: Visiting Scholar, Temple University, Fox School of Business, Philadelphia, USA
• 2019: Visiting Scholar, University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School, Philadelphia, USA  
• 2019-2022: Affiliated Researcher, Wharton Risk Center, University of Pennsylvania
• Since 02/2021: Associate Professor of Insurance and Capital Markets, University of St. Gallen   
• Since 02/2021: Director, Institute of Insurance Economics, University of St. Gallen   

• American Risk & Insurance Association (ARIA)
• Western Risk and Insurance Association (WRIA)
• European Group of Risk and Insurance Economists (EGRIE)
• Deutscher Verein für Versicherungswissenschaft (DVfVW) 

Selected Academic Talks

• 12/2024: ETH Risk Center Seminar Series, virtual
• 09/2024: JoCo 2024: The First Joint Colloquium of All IAA Sections, Brussels, Belgium
• 02/2024: ASTIN & AFIR-ERM Webinar: Cyber Insurance-Linked Securities, virtual
• 01/2024: POSTECH / Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance Seminar, London, UK
• 08/2023: Annual Meeting of the American Risk and Insurance Association (ARIA), Washington D.C., USA
• 03/2023: UCL Centre for Blockchain Technologies Seminar, virtual
• 11/2022: Research Seminar, Bejing, Tsinghua, and Renmin Universities, virtual
• 03/2022: Consortium for Data Analytics in Risk (CDAR), University of California, Berkeley, virtual
• 08/2021: Annual Meeting of the American Risk and Insurance Association (ARIA), Virtual
• 08/2020: European Economic Association (EEA) Annual Congress, virtual
• 08/2020: World Risk and Insurance Economics Congress (WRIEC), virtual
• 07/2020: Brownbag Seminar Temple University, virtual
• 11/2019: Research Seminar University of Georgia (UGA), Athens, USA
• 10/2019: Research Seminar Wharton Risk Center, Philadelphia, USA
• 09/2019: Robert A. Hedges Research Seminar Series 2019-2020 Temple University, Philadelphia, USA
• 05/2019: Actuarial Science and Mathematical Finance Seminar University of Amsterdam (UvA), Netherlands
• 08/2018: Annual Meeting of the American Risk and Insurance Association (ARIA), Chicago, USA

Selected Industry Talks and Key Notes 

• 09/2024: UBS Swiss Insurance Day, Zurich, Switzerland
• 09/2024: I.VW-HSG Future.Value Annual Meeting, St. Gallen, Switzerland
• 08/2024: AXA Haft Conference, Lenzerheide, Switzerland
• 06/2024: AdNovum Afternoon Talk on Embedded Insurance, Zurich, Switzerland
• 06/2024: I.VW-HSG Future.Talk on GenAI in Insurance, Zurich, Switzerland
• 11/2023: Panel @ Geneva Association 50: Harnessing Technology to Insure More People, Zurich, Switzerland
• 07/2023: Panel @ ITC-DIA Europe: Insurance Innovation in the Age of Data, Barcelona, Spain
• 06/2023: I.VW-HSG Future.Talk on Data-Driven Insurance and the Future in the Cloud, Zurich, Switzerland
• 05/2023: HSG Alumni Future Talk, Mitigating Climate Change and its Impact, virtual
• 04/2023: insureNXT 2023, Cologne, Germany
• 06/2022: OECD-AMRO-ADB/ADBI-ERIA Asian Regional Roundtable, virtual
• 09/2021: Swiss Green Economy Symposium, Winterthur, Switzerland

Selected Referee Activities:  

• Asia-Pacific Journal of Risk and Insurance (APJRI)
• ASTIN Bulletin - The Journal of the International Actuarial Association 
• European Actuarial Journal (EUAJ)
• European Journal of Finance (EJF)
• European Journal of Operational Research (EJOR)
• Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance - Issues and Practice (GPP) 
• Geneva Risk and Insurance Review (GRIR)
• Insurance: Mathematics and Economics (IME) 
• Journal of Banking and Finance (JBF)
• Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (JEBO)
• Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (JFQA)
• Journal of Money, Credit and Banking (JMCB)
• Journal of Risk and Insurance (JRI) 
• Management Science (MS) 
• North American Actuarial Journal (NAAJ)
• Research Policy (RESPOL)
• Risk Management and Insurance Review (RMIR)
• Scandinavian Actuarial Journal (SACT)  

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Third Party Funding:

• 2020-2022: German Insurance Science Association (DVfVW) - Grant for the research project,“COVID-19 Losses in the Insurance Industry and Beyond” (with M. Eling) 
• 2020: Innosuisse - Grant #40370.1 INNO-ICT for the applied research project "Automation of Cyber Risk Insurance Claims Payments" (with Martin Eling)
• 2018-2021: Swiss National Science Foundation - Grant #179003 for the fundamental research project "Understanding Valuation and Risk Premiums in the Markets for Insurance-Linked Securities"
• 2018: Dr.-Hans-Kessler Fund (St. Gallen) - Grant for the applied research project "Run-Off in der Lebensversicherung: Eine Einführung" (with Jovan Bogdanovic)
• 2016-2017: Funk Foundation (Hamburg) - Grant for the applied research project "Handbook of Political Risk Insurance" (with Marius Fischer)
• 2015-2016: HSG Research Fund - Postdoctoral Grant for the fundamental research project "Insurance-Linked Securities, Risk-Adjusted Performance Measurement, and Behavioral Insurance"
• 2015: Dr.-Hans-Kessler Fund (St. Gallen)- Grant for the fundamental research project: "Consumption-Based Asset Pricing in Insurance Markets: Yet Another Puzzle?" (with Daliana Luca and Hato Schmeiser)
• 2012-2014: Swiss National Science Foundation - Grant #144549 for the fundamental research project "Implicit Constraints, Incentives, and Systemic Risk Imposed by New Standards for Insurance Regulation" (with Martin Eling, Nadine Gatzert and Hato Schmeiser)
• 2012-2013: HSG Research Fund - Postdoctoral Grant for the fundamental research project "Catastrophe Bonds, Solvency Regulation, and the Asset Management of Insurance Companies"
• 2010-2012: Swiss National Science Foundation - Grant #129901 for the fundamental research project "Regulation in the Financial Services Industry After the Crisis" (with Martin Eling, Przemyslaw Rymaszewski and Hato Schmeiser)
• 2010: Dr.-Hans-Kessler Fund (St. Gallen) - Grant for the fundamental research project: "Stock vs. Mutual Insurers: Who Should and Who Does Charge More?" (with Przemyslaw Rymaszewski and Hato Schmeiser)
• 2010: Swiss National Fund Science Foundation - Academic Exchange Grant for the ICPSR Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research at the University of Michigan