Biography
Bert Scholtens is Professor of Banking and Finance at the University of St Andrews School of Management. He also holds the position of Professor at the Faculty of Economics and Business at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands.
Bert Scholtens (1959) earned his Masters in Economics at the University of Groningen. After his graduation, he worked with the Postbank in Amsterdam. He defended his PhD on international financial intermediation at the University of Amsterdam in 1994. He became assistant professor at the University of Amsterdam before he was an associate professor at the University of Groningen. In 2004, he became a professor in Groningen. In 2012, he was appointed professor in St Andrews.
Research areas
Bert Scholtens' research is directed at international financial intermediation and environmental finance and economics. He focuses on finance, responsible investment and sustainability and publishes in international academic journals. He currently teaches about portfolio management, corporate governance, and credit risk analysis and coaches both Bachelor and Masters students in completing their thesis. He also supervises several PhD students, both in Groningen and St Andrews.
Selected publications
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Towards a theory of responsible investing: on the economic foundations of corporate social responsibility
Dam, L. & Scholtens, B., Aug 2015, In: Resource and Energy Economics. 41, p. 103-121Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Integration of the international carbon market: a time-varying analysis
Lyu, C. & Scholtens, B., Mar 2024, In: Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. 191, 114102.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Investor response to appointment of female CEOs and CFOs
Scholtens, B. & Brinkhuis, E., Jun 2018, In: The Leadership Quarterly. 29, 3, p. 423-441 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Leveraging keystone agents in extractive industries to advance sustainability
Scholtens, B., Jan 2024, In: Global Environmental Change. 84, 16 p., 102794.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Sovereign bond yield spreads and sustainability: an empirical analysis of OECD countries
Capelle-Blancard, G., Crifo, P., Diaye, M.-A., Oueghlissi, R. & Scholtens, B., Jan 2019, In: Journal of Banking and Finance. 98, p. 156-169 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The art of valuation: using visual analysis to price classical paintings by Swedish Masters
De Ridder, A., Eriksen, S. & Scholtens, B., 19 Jan 2024, In: PLoS ONE. 19, 1, 19 p., e0296906.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Fossil fuel divestment and portfolio performance
Trinks, A., Scholtens, B., Mulder, M. & Dam, L., Apr 2018, In: Ecological Economics. 146, p. 740-748 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The finance perspective on fossil fuel divestment
Plantinga, A. & Scholtens, B., 1 Feb 2024, In: Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. 66, 5 p., 101394.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Analyzing systemic risk in the Chinese banking system
Huang, Q., de Haan, J. & Scholtens, B., 20 May 2019, In: Pacific Economic Review. 24, 2, p. 348-372 25 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Catalyzing the transformation to sustainable finance
D'Orazio, P., Scholtens, B., de Mariz, F., González-Ruiz, J. D., Ullah, S., Adegbite, O., Thompson, B. S., Liu, F. H. M., Harris, J. L., Bigger, P., Pill, M., Hammersley, G. & Berg, M., 20 Oct 2023, In: One Earth. 6, 10, p. 1271-1276 6 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › peer-review