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Open AccessImpact investments: a call for (re)orientation
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 change...
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Open AccessSustainability and bank risk
Banks play a key role in society and are crucial for economic development. The existing literature finds a positive association between bank performance and sustainability, but tends to neglect the risk dimens...
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Sustainable Business Practices—An Environmental Economics Perspective
In this chapter, we will discuss corporate social responsibility (CSR) from an environmental economics perspective. The discussion is based on existing research and aims to illuminate some concepts and create an ...
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Open AccessAre International Fund Flows Related to Exchange Rate Dynamics?
Employing monthly data for 53 countries between 1996 and 2015, we investigate the relationship between international fund flows and exchange rate dynamics. We find strong co-movement between funds flows (as me...
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Correction to: The Opportunity Cost of Negative Screening in Socially Responsible Investing
Table 3 of Trinks, P. J., Scholtens, B., 2017. The Opportunity Cost of Negative Screening in Socially Responsible Investing. Journal of Business Ethics, 140(2), 193–208, reports the four-factor return performa...
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Open AccessThe Opportunity Cost of Negative Screening in Socially Responsible Investing
This paper investigates the impact of negative screening on the investment universe as well as on financial performance. We come up with a novel identification process and as such depart from mainstream social...
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Open AccessESG Integration and the Investment Management Process: Fundamental Investing Reinvented
We investigate how conventional asset managers account for environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors in their investment process. We do so on the basis of an international survey among fund managers....
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The Financial Impact of Terrorist Attacks on the Value of the Oil and Gas Industry: An International Review
Energy firms operate in a strategic industry and their operations are vulnerable to terrorist attacks. We investigate how terrorism impacts stock returns of these firms. We analyze the effect of 105 terrorist ...
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Energy Innovations and the Economy: An Historical Overview
This chapter provides an introductory overview of the use of energy in relation to the economy over time. Energy consumption has skyrocketed with the course of time and energy is being used for increasingly mo...
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Leading Indicators of Currency Crises: Are They the Same in Different Exchange Rate Regimes?
We investigate whether leading indicators of currency crises differ across exchange rate regimes using data for 88 countries in the period 1981–2010. Our estimates suggest that in fixed exchange rate regimes e...
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Measuring Risk in Energy Markets
In this chapter we intend to provide the practitioner and academic interested in energy markets with an overview of the most popular risk measures and how they can be utilized for energy assets. These risk mea...
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Ownership Concentration and CSR Policy of European Multinational Enterprises
This study investigates how ownership concentration in European multinational firms is associated with these firms’ corporate social responsibility (CSR). We employ factor analysis on responsibility data from ...
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The Drivers of Responsible Investment: The Case of European Pension Funds
We investigate what drives responsible investment of European pension funds. Pension funds are institutional investors who assure the income of part of the population for a long period of time. Increasingly, s...
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Drivers of Socially Responsible Investing: A Case Study of Four Nordic Countries
In this study, we try to establish what determines the substantial differences in the Nordic countries’ size and composition of socially responsible investing (SRI). We investigate if these differences between...
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The Environmental Performance of Dutch Government Bond Funds
We investigate the implications of using different indicators to assess the sustainability performance of investment funds. In particular, we look into the environmental performance of Dutch government bond fu...
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Corporate Social Responsibility in the International Banking Industry
This article aims at providing a framework to assess corporate social responsibility with international banks. Currently, it is mainly rating institutions like EIRIS and KLD that provide information about firm...
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Open AccessCultural Values and International Differences in Business Ethics
We analyze ethical policies of firms in industrialized countries and try to find out whether culture is a factor that plays a significant role in explaining country differences. We look into the firm’s human r...
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Open AccessBook Review
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Finance as a Driver of Corporate Social Responsibility
Finance is grease to the economy. Therefore, we assume that it may affect corporate social responsibility (CSR) and the sustainability of economic development too. This paper discusses the transmission mechani...
