Measuring and monitoring the true level of mortgage delinquencies across an economy is essential for asset pricing and financial system stability. Yet public measures of mortgage default risk almost always use simple averages across pools of individual assets, including balance-sheet loans or...

Employing linear and non-linear techniques for assessing the relationship between ESG factors and future returns and risks on an out-of-sample basis, we find that the best and worst quintile portfolios ranked on their ESG scores were statistically significant in generating alpha and reducing...

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An increased energy recovery efficiency can be obtained from biomass waste due to coupling hydrothermal carbonation (HTC) with anaerobic digestion (AD). This study focused on optimizing the total energy yield (TEY) from sewage sludge (SS) and pinewood sawdust (PS) in co-HTC-AD coupling process,...