26 Result(s)

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J. Pen, Hendrik P. van Dalen, A. H. E. M. Wellink, J. A. Kregel… in De Economist (1991)

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Marcel Boumans, M. M. G. Fase, Age F. P. Bakker, Th. van de Klundert… in De Economist (1995)

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The prospects of tropical timber plantation investment funds

As financial markets start to acknowledge the significance of environmental issues, it is interesting to analyse how they combine finance and sustainable development. Dutch investment funds participating in tr...

Bert Scholtens in Environmentalist (1998)

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Analytical Issues in External Financing Alternatives for SBEs

As the amount of information about an enterprise is generally not neutral with respect to firm size, financiers have problems to identify the default risk associated with a borrower or to have control over a b...

Bert Scholtens in Small Business Economics (1999)

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Country Risk Analysis: Principles, Practices and Policies

This paper introduces the main issues involved in analyzing country risk. Various definitions of country risk are highlighted. Furthermore, different approaches that are being used to assess country risk are a...

Bert Scholtens in Sovereign Risk and Financial Crises (2004)

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Book review: Age F.P. Bakker and Bryan Chapple (eds.), Capital Liberalization in Transition Countries – Lessons from the Past and for the Future, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham/Northampton MA, 2003, 200 p. GBP 59.95 (ISBN 1 84376 345 1)

Bert Scholtens in De Economist (2004)

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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...

Bert Scholtens in Journal of Business Ethics (2006)

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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...

Bert Scholtens in Journal of Business Ethics (2009)

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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...

Bert Scholtens in Journal of Business Ethics (2010)

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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...

Bert Scholtens, Riikka Sievänen in Journal of Business Ethics (2013)

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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...

Riikka Sievänen, Hannu Rita, Bert Scholtens in Journal of Business Ethics (2013)

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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 ...

Lammertjan Dam, Bert Scholtens in Journal of Business Ethics (2013)

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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...

Bert Scholtens, Konstantionos Sklavos in Perspectives on Energy Risk (2014)

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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...

Yan** Zhao, Jakob de Haan, Bert Scholtens, Haizhen Yang in Open Economies Review (2014)

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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...

Bert Scholtens in Energy Technology and Valuation Issues (2015)

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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 ...

David Holwerda, Bert Scholtens in Energy and Finance (2016)