Despite the growing prominence of impact investing in both research and practice, the definition of social and environmental impact remains contested. Rather than resolving the elusiveness of impact, we examine how impact venture capitalists (IVCs) leverage this ambiguity in their everyday...

This study empirically investigates the determinants of financial success for startups engaged in impact versus conventional investment, performing a landscape analysis of the MENA region's financial ecosystem. Using the total equity funding amount (TEFA) as a performance proxy, we analyzed data...

This study investigates how credit supply shocks impact firm-level investment across the euro area using the novel AnaCredit database. Employing the methodology developed by Amiti and Weinstein (2018), we decompose loan growth rates into four components: bank-specific, firm-specific,...

We study how firms' investment responds to interest rate changes based on a German firm survey, combining hypothetical vignettes, open-ended questions, and rich firm data. We estimate a 7 percent semi-elasticity of investment to loan rates-about half the total corporate investment response to...

Over the past decades, a growing body of research has examined the structural and behavioral barriers that hinder firms from adopting cost-effective technologies to improve energy efficiency. In this paper, we draw on firm-level data from the EIB Investment Survey combined with energy efficiency...

In an imperfect capital market, firms face financial constraints due to information asymmetry. These constraints have a significant impact on the effectiveness of investment decisions. When either an underinvestment or overinvestment process occurs, it directly affects the firm's value. This...

For many decades, time-series forecasting has been applied to different problems by scientists and industries. Many models have been introduced for the purpose of forecasting. These advancements have significantly improved the accuracy and reliability of predictions, especially in complex...

Understanding how investors maintain positions during adverse market conditions, investment grip, is increasingly important as retail participation rises and information environments diversify. While prior research identifies demographic, psychological, and economic determinants of investment...

We investigate the impact of mergers on R&D incentives within a framework of R&D competition where effort can influence both the probability of innovation and the payoff conditional on success. Our framework nests the results of two classes of existing models and reveals assumptions that are...

Die Dekarbonisierung der deutschen Industrie erfordert grundlegende Veränderungen der Produktionsprozesse. Viele der dafür benötigten Technologien sind bislang jedoch noch nicht im industriellen Maßstab erprobt und mit erheblichen technologischen, infrastrukturellen und marktbezogenen...

Das Thema KI-gestützter Entscheidungsunterstützung im Immobilien-Investmentmanagement wird derzeit vor allem im Kontext von Effizienz, Standardisierung und Automatisierung diskutiert. Die vorliegende Arbeit analysiert daher Unterschiede in Argumentationslogik, Gewichtung zentraler...

This paper develops a dynamic model in which the productivity of joint research governs strategic investment timing in innovation races. Departing from the standard assumption that discovery rates scale proportionally with the number of active firms, we allow research to exhibit decreasing or...

Deutschland befindet sich in einer andauernden Schwächephase. Die Wirtschaft ist seit dem Ausbruch der Coronapandemie nicht mehr gewachsen. Vor diesem Hintergrund stellt sich im Vorfeld der Bundestagswahl die Frage, wie die Parteien die Investitionstätigkeit ankurbeln wollen und welche...

Despite substantial research on job satisfaction in self-employment, we know little about the specific consequences for the venture when job satisfaction declines after an external shock. Taking the COVID-19 pandemic as an example of an external shock and drawing on a sample of nearly 7,000...

Despite substantial research on job satisfaction in self-employment, we know little about the consequences for the venture when job satisfaction declines after an external shock. Taking the pandemic as an example of an external shock and drawing on 7,000 self-employed in Germany, we investigate...

Transitioning to a low-carbon economy is an effective approach to tackling the climate crisis, and offers a referable strategy for realizing the coordination of development and security. This study demonstrates a robust negative relationship between firms' low-carbon transition and...

Foreign direct investment has the potential to introduce much-needed capital and expertise in emerging and developing economies. To attract foreign direct investment, many countries have eased restrictions on foreign ownership in various sectors, reformed their institutions, and set up...