While the academic world is still discussing if charting works or if it is more orless something like “Voodoo finance”, the practical orientated world has been usingtechnical analysis for decades. One argument of practitioners is that technical analysisis useful to “disciplinate” the...

We investigate the asset pricing implications of the greenness of bonds. To estimate a green-pricing effect, we determine the 'green bond premium' as the difference between the yields of matched conventional and green-labeled bonds. On a cross-sectional average, green bonds experience a...

The increasing requirement for action on climate change in developing countries has led to the inclusion of environmental aspects in microfinance objectives, in addition to social and financial performance, and hence to the appearance of green microfinance. To date, financing for modern energy...

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...