This paper deals with tools and indicators for assessing sustainable transport and energy systems performance.

A widely recognized paper by Colin Mayer (1988) has led to a profound revision of academic thinking about financing patterns of corporations in different countries. Using flow-of-funds data instead of balance sheet data, Mayer and others who followed his lead found that internal financing is the...

What determines the firm's choice of its mechanism of investment financing? How is the choice of the firm's financing mechanism at the micro level related to the economy's business cycle movements at the aggregate level? This paper develops a model of the credit market where the equilibrium...

We develop a stylized model of economic growth with bubbles. In this model, financial frictions leadto equilibrium dispersion in the rates of return to investment. During bubbly episodes, unproductiveinvestors demand bubbles while productive investors supply them. Because of this, bubbly...

Bereits 1970 betrug der Anteil des Leasings an den Investitionsfinanzie-rungen drei Prozent, heute sind es bereits 17 Prozent mit zunehmender Tendenz. Der größte Anteil entfällt auf Mobilien mit ca. 90 Prozent. Bei einer Umfrage zur künftigen Bedeutung von alternativen...

This study explores individual and country-level environmental drivers of informal “seed” investment. We examine four types of informal investors based on business ownership experience (or no such experience) and close family relationship with investee (or no such relationship): “classic love...

We test the frequently made claim that SRI funds are conventionalfunds in disguise. For this purpose, we compare the portfolio holdings ofSRI funds to conventional funds concerning their social and environmentalstandards. Our empirical study of US equity funds shows that SRI fundshave a...

This paper measures the extent to which prices exceed marginal costs in the U.S. natural gas distributionmarket during the period 1991-2007. We find large departures from marginal cost pricing in all 50states, with residential and commercial customers facing average markups of over 40%. Based...