In this paper, using hand-collected accounting data on 154 European banks for a period ranging from 2010 to 2018, we investigate the impact of banks’ ESG scores on the value-relevance of fair value hierarchy in financial instruments. Our findings are multi-faceted. On the one hand, banks that...

This paper investigates the presence of financial bubbles in the environmentally friendly investments captured by the ESG markets. By using the log-periodic power law singularity framework, we identified several periods of positive and negative bubbles in the short, medium, and long term....

We investigate how international investors evaluate the behaviour of those companies that have been excluded from the portfolio of the Norwegian Government Pension Fund-Global (GPF-G) due to environmental concerns. We concentrate on the excluded companies, to check if they are punished by SR...

Defining social investing and its boundaries is a challenging task, since no general consensus exists about the ‘ideal' characteristics that socially responsible investments (SRIs) should possess. Some faith-based investments, for instance, Islamic funds, are often associated with SRIs, even...

Islamic Finance, which is based on the Shari'ah Law, has seen a growing interest in the last few years. This phenomenon is attributable not only to the demographic trends within Muslin countries but also to the wealth accumulated by HNWI and the growing demand to manage it in compliance with...