to provide issuers and other stakeholders with a comprehensive view of the ESG bond marketplace …

In traditional bond markets, sovereign bonds provide benchmarks and serve as catalysts for the corporate bond market … development. Contrary to the usual sequence of bond market development, sovereign issuers are latecomers to sustainable bond … markets. Yet, our empirical study finds that sovereign green bond issuance can have quantitative and qualitative benefits for …

We analyze the corporate green bond market under a rational framework without an innate green preference, using a …, false or exaggerated claims of being green. The extent of greenwashing in the market is a function of the green bond premium …. A swift and gradual implementation of carbon pricing generates a small green bond premium and a low level of …

Economies (EMDEs). This paper investigates the role of fiscal policies in determining domestic bond yields, and how this … deficits results in a persistent increase in 10-year domestic bond yield by around 36 basis points over 2.5 years, with larger … effects observed during the COVID-19 pandemic. This contrasts with external bond spreads which are more sensitive to external …

currencies, and weakening financial conditions, recent trends in oil prices might not persist further without triggering world …

There is world-wide convergence in life expectancy, despite little convergence in GDP per capita. If one values longer … life much more than material happiness, the world living standards may this have already converged substantially. This … among countries. A conventional GDP-based measure remains a good approximation for (non) convergence in world living …