Alexander Bassen und Kerstin Lopatta, Universität Hamburg, sind der Ansicht, dass sowohl marktliche als auch regulatorische Maßnahmen das Thema Sustainable Finance in der Coronakrise eher verstärkt haben. Aufgrund der zu erwartenden weiteren Zunahme gesellschaftlicher Risiken und daraus...

Demand for sustainable fixed-income investment solutions is surging but there is hardly research on the impact of sustainability on the risk characteristics of fixed-income portfolios. This study examines the impact of sustainability on the credit risk exposure of U.S. corporate bond portfolios...

Demand for sustainable fixed-income investment solutions is surging but there is hardly research on the impact of sustainability on the risk characteristics of fixed-income portfolios. This study examines the impact of sustainability on the credit risk exposure of corporate bond portfolios...

Basic materials production is responsible for 25% of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. However, both, mitigation efforts and results, are limited. While business-as-usual investments are declining, due to concerns about stranded assets and global over-supply of some materials like steel,...

Christoph M. Schmidt, RWI und Ruhr-Universität Bochum, sieht in der Ratspräsidentschaft Deutschlands eine Möglichkeit, einen Neuaufbruch der europäischen Klimapolitik einzuleiten, mit einem einheitlichen und umfassenden CO2-Preis als Leitinstrument des European Green Deal. Dass die...

Practitioners and academics have been using different terms to describe investments in the sustainability context. The latest inflationary term is impact investments—investments that focus on real-world changes in terms of solving social challenges and/or mitigating ecological degradation. At...

The European Commission has proposed establishing a framework that redirects capital to sustainable investments in order to foster sustainable economic growth. A key proposal from this framework is the mandatory consideration of environmental criteria for investment decisions. However, in...

Die Ertragskrise der Forstwirtschaft wirkt indirekt auf das Erholungsangebot des Waldes. Erholungsleistungen, die früher problemlos aus erwirtschafteten Überschüssen bereitgestellt werden konnten, werden in jüngerer Zeit mehr und mehr hinterfragt: Es ist daher naheliegend und von Interesse,...

While the academic world is still discussing if charting works or if it is more or less something like "Voodoo finance", the practical orientated world has been using technical analysis for decades. One argument of practitioners is, that technical analysis is useful to "disciplinate" the trader...