The sales of pedelecs are currently skyrocketing in Germany and in many other places. As a low-carbon means of mobility, pedelecs have the potential to make a substantial contribution to the mobility transition. This thesis employs practice theory as proposed by Shove et al. (2012) to...

Der vorliegende Bericht enthält Statistiken zu Bedienzeiten, Angebotsstandards, Bezahloptionen, etc. von 60 im Jahr 2022 erfassten On-Demand-Ridepooling Systemen, sowie Antworten aus einer Befragung von 33 Systembetreibern zu ihren Flottengrößen, Genehmigungsgrundlage und Auflagen,...

We provide evidence of the exogenous impact of environmental and social performance components on credit ratings in North America, Europe, and Asia. In particular, the product innovation dimension is clearly identified as being the dominating driver of credit ratings within the environmental...

Based on an international data set that comprises over 6,100 companies located in 44 countries in the years 2002-2018, this paper analyzes the relation between corporate scandals and board structures besides further firm-related, political, nation-level economic, and cultural variables. We...

In this paper, we examine in a systematic manner how investors react to the sentiment of instant ESG news. Instead of acquiring proprietary ESG news or events datasets directly from specific ESG data providers, we extract fresh ESG news directly from a plethora of raw news articles. We showcase...

The FinTech market in Germany is a dynamic and growing field that is difficult to observe in its entirety. This report provides a hand-collected market overview of the FinTech market in Germany, as well as an application case in terms of volume estimates for the financing and asset management...