This research investigates the influence of methodological choices in portfolio sorts on the size of the carbon premium. By analyzing more than 100,000 methodological paths, we find that variations in the construction of brown-minus-green portfolios create substantial non-standard errors. From...

Big data technology has revolutionized the research paradigm of economic forecasting regardless of the data source, forecasting method, or forecasting result. This study evaluates the current literature on economic forecasting using big data and employs bibliometric approaches to offer a...

Establishing causal relationships is a core aspect of empirical economics. Borrowing ideas from the medical sciences, we propose tentative guidelines for reliable causal inferences that cover aspects related to both the study itself and its fit with the existing background knowledge. Moreover,...