I Sustainability-Linked Bonds (SLB) sono obbligazioni dotate di caratteristiche finanziarie e strutturali che variano a seconda del raggiungimento di obiettivi predefiniti, basati sulla performance di sostenibilità dell’emittente. A differenza dei titoli Green e dei titoli Social, la cui...

In this study, we investigate whether green bond certification benefits the climate risk concerned investors. By comparing the performance of green bonds and their degree of compliance with the Green Bond Principles, we find that certification does not appear to play a role in bond performance:...

We study the effect of oil price shocks on bond risk premia. Based on Baumeister and Hamilton (2019), we identify the different sources of oil price shocks using a structural vector autoregressive (SVAR) model of the global market for crude oil. These structural factors are then used as...

We investigate the time and frequency dynamics of connectedness among green assets such as green bonds, clean energy markets, and carbon prices. Using daily price data, we explore return spillovers across these green financial markets by applying the novel framework on time and frequency...

As an efficient method for reducing systemic risk, contingent convertible bonds (Cocos) have received widespread attention, especially in banking. Similarly, contingent convertible catastrophe bonds (CocoCATs) are effective in the insurance system to minimize catastrophic risks. In this study,...

We estimate short-run reactions of government bond spreads of selected EU countries to prime ministers' and finance ministers' public statements about fiscal policy from 2000 to 2019. Our dataset, which is based on the Factiva database, covers news that reached the markets via Reuters. Depending...

This paper examines mean and volatility spillovers between four green municipal bonds issued by the US states of California, Colorado, Columbia and Ohio, and the role played by the recent Covid-19 pandemic and the COP policy announcements respectively. Specifically, four-variate VAR-GARCH-BEKK...

Education becomes an urgency in improving the quality of human life. Improving the quality of education is one of the goals of maqashid shariah, waqf as the property of the people whose benefits are intended for the continuity of the benefit of the people becomes one of the potentials to be...

While previous studies have mainly focused on the existence of a premium in the yield of green bonds, we test whether green bonds traded in the secondary market benefit from a liquidity greenium, i.e. they are more liquid compared to conventional bonds. To this end, we conduct several tests to...

The fixed-income securities market is a major source of capital formation and financing of economic activities. Besides, it is a dominant source of funding for sovereigns, and investments by market participants in the government securities (G-Sec) market. G-Sec markets also provide a proxy of...