Houdou Basse Mama is a full professor of finance at ESCP Business School (Berlin campus), where he holds the Chair in International Financial Markets. His current teaching portfolio includes international finance, empirical finance, asset/portfolio management, international financial markets, and sustainable finance.

His research agenda takes a forward-looking international financial market perspective to bridge the fields of “international business”, “innovation”, and “sustainability”. Specifically, his main research interest lies at the intersection of financial markets and real economic activity. He has a particular research interest in empirical asset pricing, international finance, as well as innovation economics and climate change. His research has been published in leading international journals, including Research Policy, Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, Applied Economics, Energy Economics, Energy Policy, Business Strategy and the Environment, Review of Managerial Science, Journal of Business Economics, Finance Research Letters.

Apart from his teaching and research activities, Houdou has been serving since 2020 as the Berlin-based Local Academic Director of the School’s Bachelor in Management programme.

Prior to joining ESCP Business School in February 2013, he held a postdoctoral position at the University of Hamburg, where he earned a Master’s in International Business and a Ph.D. in Finance. He also holds an M.A. in Accounting and Finance (Université Cheikh Anta Diop Dakar) as well as an M.A. in Applied Foreign Languages (from the Université Cheikh Anta Diop and AUPELF-UREF Montréal). Jointly to his former position in Hamburg, he had been a visiting lecturer of finance with the State University of Finance and Economics in St. Petersburg (2009–2011) and the Bordeaux Business School (2011–2012).

Houdou also has more than 3.5 years of industry experience with Deutsche Boerse in Frankfurt and Siemens in Dakar (Senegal), where he gained insights into derivatives-based indices and financial controlling, respectively.

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Academic Articles

2023

MANDAROUX, R., K. SCHINDELHAUER, H. BASSE MAMA

How to reinforce the effectiveness of the EU emissions trading system in stimulating low-carbon technological change? Taking stock and future directions

ENERGY POLICY, 181

Academic Articles

2022

BASSE MAMA, H., R. MANDAROUX

Do investors care about carbon emissions under the European Environmental Policy?

BUSINESS STRATEGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT, 31 (1), 268-283

ESCP Impact Papers

2022

BASSE MAMA, H

Implications for investor portfolio choice of salience shifts regarding geopolitical risks and sustainability issues

ESCP Impact Papers, 2022-25-EN

Academic Articles

2019

KOCH, N., H. BASSE MAMA

Does the EU Emissions Trading System induce investment leakage? Evidence from German multinational firms

ENERGY ECONOMICS, 81, 479-492

Academic Articles

2018

BASSE MAMA, H.

Innovative efficiency and stock returns: Should we care about nonlinearity?

FINANCE RESEARCH LETTERS, 24, 81-89

Academic Articles

2018

BASSE MAMA, H.

Nonlinear Capital Market Payoffs to Science-led Innovation

RESEARCH POLICY, 47(6), 1084-1095

Academic Articles

2017

BASSE MAMA, H.

The interaction between stock prices and corporate investment: Is Europe different?

REVIEW OF MANAGERIAL SCIENCE, Vol. 11, Issue 2, pp. 315-351

Academic Articles

2017

BASSE MAMA, H., A. BASSEN

Neglected Disciplinary Effects of Investor Relations: Evidence from Corporate Cash Holdings

JOURNAL OF BUSINESS ECONOMICS, Vol. 87, Issue 2, pp. 221-261

Academic Articles

2017

BASSE MAMA, H., S. MUELLER, U. PAPE

What’s in the news? The ambiguity of the information content of index reconstitutions in Germany

REVIEW OF QUANTITATIVE FINANCE AND ACCOUTING, 49(4), 1087-1119

Academic Articles

2013

BASSE MAMA, H., A. BASSEN

Contagion effects in the electric utility industry following the Fukushima nuclear accident

APPLIED ECONOMICS, 45(24), 3421-3430