This is the first paper systematically calculating, testing and explaining different definitions of the survivorship bias in fund performance. We document that the survival-performance-relation is stronger for small funds and we find significant under-performance of non-survivors but no...

This article shows that corporate social responsibility (CSR) is positively related to firm value, given firms have shareholders who reveal a corresponding preference for social or environmental performance, as proxied by their quantifiable investment habits. I suspect that this corresponds to...

The impact of sustainable investment funds can in principle be achieved via three impact channels, which can be systematized in an impact framework. While the impact channels have already been described quite well in theoretical terms, relatively few empirical studies have been conducted to...

In their seminal paper on bond fund performance, Blake, Elton and Gruber (1993) state that survivorship bias is unimportant for this market segment. Many bond fund studies have since been published without treating survivorship bias despite the dramatic changes in the market over the last 20...

Despite the nonlinearity in the relation between interest rate risk and expected return, bond fund performance regressions usually lever expected benchmark returnslinearly to the fund’srisk. This causes systematic miscalculations of expected passive style returns and active alphas. I propose a...

Recent equilibrium models predict a negative expected return premium in green stocks due toa non-financial utility for green investors, the so-called Equity Greenium, and in consequencea separation of the capital market. We derive a modified pricing relationship for equity futuresas a first...

Performance regressions lever expected benchmark returns linearly to the risk exposures of the fund. The interest rate (IR) risk premium, however, usually follows a decreasingly upward-sloping yield curve, characterizing the nonlinearity between expected return and IR risk exposure, e.g....