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Sovereign Green Bonds: A Catalyst for Sustainable Debt Market Development?
Cheng, Gong - 2024
In traditional bond markets, sovereign bonds provide benchmarks and serve as catalysts for the corporate bond market … development. Contrary to the usual sequence of bond market development, sovereign issuers are latecomers to sustainable bond … markets. Yet, our empirical study finds that sovereign green bond issuance can have quantitative and qualitative benefits for …
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Green Bond Pricing and Greenwashing under Asymmetric Information
Schmittmann, Jochen M. - 2022
We analyze the corporate green bond market under a rational framework without an innate green preference, using a …, false or exaggerated claims of being green. The extent of greenwashing in the market is a function of the green bond premium …. A swift and gradual implementation of carbon pricing generates a small green bond premium and a low level of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015059920
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Sovereign ESG Bond Issuance: A Guidance Note for Sovereign Debt Managers
Lindner, Peter - 2023
to provide issuers and other stakeholders with a comprehensive view of the ESG bond marketplace …
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Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Supply for the G-7 Countries, With Emphasis on Germany
Strand, Jon - 2007
This paper discusses structure, impact, costs, and efficiency of renewable energy supply in the eight largest advanced economies (the G-7 plus Spain), with focus on Germany. Renewables production costs are compared to benefits, defined as reductions in net carbon emissions; technological...
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Jobs Impact of Green Energy
Kim, Jaden - 2022
This brief paper accompanies the Green Energy and Jobs tool, which is a simple excel-based tool to estimate the job-creation potential of greening the electricity sector. Specifically, it calculates the net job gains or losses from increasing the level of energy efficiency, and from increasing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015060395
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Sovereign Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Investing : Chasing Elusive Sustainability
Gratcheva, Ekaterina - 2024
This paper evaluates the progression of the sovereign ESG landscape since the initial comprehensive assessment of the sector in 2021 in "Demystifying Sovereign ESG" by conducting a comparative analysis of the current sovereign ESG methodologies of commercial ESG providers. The 2021 study...
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Supporting Sustainable Financing and Access to Finance in Armenia
Atamanchuk, Maria - 2023
In Armenia, both external and domestic financing face challenges. Armenia's share of inward foreign direct investment (FDI) in private external financing has declined significantly over the past decade. Access to domestic finance in Armenia is also moderate and masks important disparities....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015060223
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Environmental Policies and Innovation in Renewable Energy
Bettarelli, Luca - 2023
This paper investigates the effect of Climate Change Policies (CCPs) on green innovation, for a sample of 40 advanced and emerging market economies and 5 economic sectors, during the period 2000-2021. Our results suggest that CCPs increase green patents, with the effect increasing gradually over...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015059111
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ASEAN-5: Further Harnessing the Benefits of Regional Integration amid Fragmentation Risks
Baek, Nuri - 2023
The ASEAN-5 region, which comprises Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand, has benefited … ASEAN-5 members has the potential to enhance the region's resilience against external headwinds. This paper shows that … also lags trade integration in ASEAN-5. Empirical findings from the paper illustrate that a higher degree of regional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015059081
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Reaching (Beyond) the Frontier: Energy Efficiency in Europe
Cevik, Serhan - 2023
The world is not decarbonizing fast enough, with global warming on track to reach as much as 4°C over the next century absent a global green transition. Policymakers in Europe-and beyond-still have an opportunity both to achieve net zero emissions by 2050 and to strengthen economic prospects by...
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