We revisit the puzzle of limited stock market participation using qualitative methods common in other social sciences but rare in economics. Through in-depth interviews with investors and non-investors in Germany—a high-income country with low market participation—we elicit open-ended...

We document that compared to all other investor groups investment funds exhibit a distinctly procyclical behavior when financial-market beliefs about the probability of a euro-related, institutional rare disaster spike. In response to such euro disaster risk shocks, investment funds shed...

Current technologies for digital data storage are hitting sustainability limits in terms of energy consumption and their use of rare and toxic materials. Moreover, data integrity when using those technologies is limited in time, which complicates archival data-storage. DNA or certain classes of...

This working paper aims to provide the reader with information on the topical focus of the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme, comparing the results with the topical focus at both national and regional levels worldwide. We find that there is a partial disconnect between the topics that were funded...

Diseases of the heart and circulatory system pose an immense and increasing burden on patients' quality of life and the healthcare system. With more than 1.8 million deaths annually, cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of mortality in the EU. The costs of the cardiovascular health...

Machine learning applications in finance commonly employ feature decorrelation techniques developed for generic statistical problems. We investigate whether this practice appropriately addresses the unique characteristics of financial data, where correlations often encode fundamental economic...

One of the most significant recent developments in the debt financing sector pertains to new products and standards applicable to sustainability-related issues. Therefore, research on this has increased substantially. One of the most recent such developments is that of sustainability-linked...