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How Much Does Matter ESG Ratings in Big Pharma Firms Performances?
Given the peculiarities of the pharmaceutical sector and its wide exposure to ESG factors, this chapter aims to verify the possible presence and the...
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Consortium Company, Circular Economy and ESG: The Comieco Case Study
This Chapter deepens the story of Comieco, an Italian case of circular economy. Comieco is the Consortium of the paper supply chain for the recycling...
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Transparency and Standardization of Financial Products Information
The information needs of retail investors can be posited as the ultimate driver of the transparency measures put in place by the EU Action Plan on...
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ESG Factors in the Investment Process
The objective of the contribution is the analysis of how ESG factors are affecting the decision-making process of institutional investors. To that...
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Information as a Driver of Sustainable Finance The European Regulatory Framework
The Sustainable Development Goals introduced by the United Nations in 2016 call for the significant mobilisation of finance. However, although...
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SRI, ESG and Value of Sustainability
The concept of acting in a responsible way in finance has taken different patterns through the years. Over the last decades, greater attention to the...
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ESG, COE and Profitability in the Oil and Gas Sector
This chapter empirically explores Oil and Gas sector, trying to investigate the effect of ESG Scores on (1) Cost of equity (COE) and (2) Firm’s...
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Third Parties Information
The chapter covers the issue of Non-Financial information (NFI) under different perspectives. Starting from the eugenics of NFI, useful to clarify...
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Corporate Disclosure
In this chapter, we aim at exploring the corporate disclosure landscape as non-financial information becomes increasingly paramount. We start by...
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Retail Investors’ Attitude and Preferences and Sustainable Investing Regulation
Sustainable investments have been gathering more and more attention over the years and, according to the already mentioned GSIA estimates (GSIA,...
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Information as a Driver of Sustainable Finance
The development of sustainable finance builds on an efficient ecosystem of sustainability-related information. The incorporation into market prices...
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Best Practices and Conclusion
Despite knowledge of the multiple benefits nature-based solutions (NBS) provides, a critical barrier to their widespread adoption is a lack of...
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Introduction
This book presents new research on innovative financial instruments and approaches available to implement and mainstream nature-based solutions (NBS)...
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Market-Based Instruments Financing Nature-Based Solutions
Market-based instruments (MBI) implement the polluter pays principle, which internalises environmental costs into the prices of relevant products and...
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Public—Private Partnerships Financing Nature-Based Solutions
In the context of nature-based solutions (NBS), public–private partnerships (PPPs) can be applied in many ways. For example, PPPs can be used to...
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Payments for Ecosystem Services Financing Nature-Based Solutions
While ecosystem services (ES) are critical to sustainable development, they have been damaged and degraded by human activities and natural disasters,...
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Nature-Based Solutions
A variety of societal challenges, both climatic and non-climatic, can lead to abrupt, and in some cases, irreversible environmental change that...
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Fiscal Decentralization in India An Outcome Map** of State Finance Commissions
This book presents an in-depth analysis of key recommendations of the consecutive state finance commissions (SFCs) across states of India in the...
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The Tokenization of Assets: Using Blockchains for Equity Crowdfunding
In this chapter, we present tokenization of equity crowdfunding on a Blockchain as a possible approach to ease access to capital for startups. We...