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scenarios and their probabilities become time-varying factors. From S&P 500 options, two or three time-varying scenarios suffice …
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This paper introduces the concept of sustainable finance literacy, which refers to retail investors' knowledge of regulations, norms, and standards for financial products with sustainable characteristics. We survey a large sample of Swiss households and measure different literacy concepts using...
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This paper studies the development of a firm’s Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) performance following the issuance of “green loans” earmarked for green projects versus “sustainable loans” to firms bench-marked by ESG criteria. Firms issuing green loans appear to be effective...
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A large literature documents a positive correlation between a firm's sustainability or ESG policies and firm value … direction of causation. In this paper we propose and test the Sustainability Wage Gap channel through which firms can benefit … administrative employer-employee matched data from Sweden and a new measure that quantifies the environmental sustainability of …
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We explore a novel survey on responsible investing by institutional investors around the world and match it to archival data on their equity portfolio holdings. We document that institutions that publicly commit to responsible investing exhibit better environmental, social, and governance (ESG)...
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The financial services industry is currently undergoing a major transformation, with digitization and sustainability …
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We present a new theory of homogeneous volatility (and variance) estimators for arbitrary stochastic processes. The … main tool of our theory is the parsimonious encoding of all the information contained in the OHLC prices for a given time …
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