Peter-Jan Engelen
Expertise
- Corporate finance
- Corporate governance
- Corporate social responsibility
- Responsible finance
- Sustainable finance
- Innovation finance
Prof. mr. dr. P.J. Engelen is a Professor of Finance at the University of Antwerp (Faculty of Business and Economics), and an Associate Professor at Utrecht University (School of Economics).
His expertise is at the intersection of corporate finance, corporate governance and corporate social responsibility. In these areas he conducts research, publishes, consults and gives lectures and trainings. As a member of the Screening Committee of the "Towards Sustainability" Sustainable Finance Label he combines those interests in the sustainable and responsible finance field. In the past he received the Albert Beken award, the prestigious European Josseph de la Vega Prize and was awarded Best Researcher in Economics at Utrecht University.
His work in Innovation Finance focuses on entrepreneurial financing decisions (Going public process, IPOs, crowdfunding, and venture capital) as well as on investment decisions under uncertainty in highly complex and innovative industries: pharmaceutical R&D, business model innovations in ICT, infrastructure projects, renewable energy (hydrogen, CCS) and sustainable resources (recycling).
He also analyzes the impact of institutions on corporate financing decisions of companies and on the functioning of financial markets. His focus is on formal institutions such as country-level regulations (investor protection, disclosure regulation, securities regulation), semi-formal institutions such as firm-level corporate governance configurations, board composition and board diversity as well as informal institutions such as trust, reputation, CSR and business ethics.
His research has been published in the Journal of Banking and Finance, Long Range Planning, Research Policy, International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, BMJ Global Health, Business Ethics Quarterly and the Journal of Business Ethics, among others.