Industrial policies greening the economy aim to accelerate the transition to net zero. We show that the United States (US) Inflation Reduction Act improved the supply of climate finance globally. Using granular data on global investment funds, we identify a novel international spillover channel...

We study how monetary policy is transmitted through the open-end investment fund (OEIF) sector and how this transmission depends on fund fragility. Using high-frequency identified ECB monetary policy surprises and daily share-class data on German-domiciled OEIFs from 2010 to 2023, we show that...

We study how sustainability disclosure regulation affects mutual fund flows and portfolio choices, accounting for investor heterogeneity. Guided by a model of ESG investing under uncertainty, we exploit the introduction of the European Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) as a...

Managers of actively managed funds do not maintain a constant investment style. Instead, their factor loadings change over time. These changes are especially large following quarters with extreme returns and fund flows and arise from both active portfolio reallocations and passive style drift....

This publication analyses the advantages and disadvantages of carbon credits compared to other financing instruments for protecting and restoring coastal ecosystems. Nine instruments are examined, including emission credits, biodiversity certificates, development cooperation, and blue bonds....

We present improved out-of-sample predictability of future fund flows using state-of-the-art machine learning methods. Nonlinear machine learning models significantly outperform linear models in terms of out-of-sample R-squared. Using interpretable ML methods, we identify past flows and the...

Using granular security-level data from bond funds domiciled in the US and the euro area, we identify a market-based risk-taking channel of monetary policy transmission via the credit-risk and the maturity structure of bond funds' portfolios. We measure credit risk at the fund level as the...

We introduce a simple yet powerful method for enhancing mutual fund performance prediction by combining individual predictors into a composite predictor. This composite approach integrates information from 19 well-established return-based and portfolio holdings-based predictors from the...

This report provides a brief overview of the achievements of the Rapid Social Response Multi-Donor Trust Fund (RSR) in the fifteen years from its inception during the global financial crisis of 2008/9 to its closing in 2024. Over these fifteen years, the RSR awarded $149.8 million in 420 grants...

Project Samara was a limited, real world experiment designed to evaluate the use of distributed ledger technology (DLT) and wholesale central bank digital money (W CAD) in Canadian capital markets. The project involved the issuance of a single tokenized bond by Export Development Canada to a...

Objective: This study examines the competitive and collaborative dynamics between entrepreneurship through acquisition (ETA) and small- and micro-cap private equity (PE) in acquiring small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Focusing on the DACH region (Germany, Austria, Switzerland), it...

Despite the importance of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) firm controversies, little is known about their effect on institutional investors. We study the most important institutional investors worldwide: pension funds and mutual funds. The separation between fund management and ownership...

This paper reviews the main types of credit enhancement approaches used to support climate debt issuances by EMDE borrowers. Fragmentation on the part of the providers of credit enhancements was identified as a major factor impeding scalability of credit-enhanced debt. The acceptance of...

This paper investigates the growth impact of the EU's Structural, Cohesion and Pre-accession Funds. We look at a large sample of 27 EU countries and the UK, over a period of 1989 and 2020, essentially covering the full history of these funds. We show that the growth effect of the funds is...

This paper fills a gap in research on private equity investments in emerging markets and developing economies. It provides descriptive evidence and examines the distribution of returns across sectors such as finance, technology, and resource-intensive industries like mining, where significant...

Using supervisory data of alternative investment funds investing in bonds, I exploit the COVID-19 crisis to examine the effectiveness of redemption restrictions from a financial stability perspective. First, I find that redemption restrictions reduced outflows during the March 2020 market...

Institutional investors, such as investment funds, are playing an increasingly important role in residential real estate markets. This raises the possibility that their actions might drive aggregate market outcomes and may change how and which macrofinancial shocks transmit to house prices. In a...

We document that compared to all other investor groups investment funds exhibit a distinctly procyclical behavior when financial-market beliefs about the probability of a euro-related, institutional rare disaster spike. In response to such euro disaster risk shocks, investment funds shed...

The exponential growth in popularity of ETFs over the last three decades has solidified ETFs as an essential component of many investors' portfolios. Investor sentiment is one of the factors that influence market returns of ETFs during times of market volatility. This article highlights the gap...