the long-term goals of urban sustainability and resilience. In essence, a smart and sustainable city is an urban locality …

This paper examines the profitability of investing according to environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria in … the U.S. and Europe. Based on data from 2003 to 2017, we show that a portfolio long in stocks with the highest ESG scores … by the strong positive return of firms with the lowest ESG activity. As we find that increasing ESG scores reduce firm …

among large ICT firms by using signaling theory to analyze a broad set of media (sustainability, ESG, CSR, integrated …

covering the issuance of 430 corporate and sovereign Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) bonds in Latin America and the … Caribbean (LAC) that are outstanding in international markets. The goal was to investigate how the creation of a sovereign ESG … reference yield curve can boost the private ESG bond market. Using a difference-in-differences (DID) approach, we empirically …

Sustainability has gained considerable prominence in recent decades as the inevitability of change becomes increasingly … addressing the world's sustainability challenges. Despite extensive research on sustainability in corporations and public firms …, there remains a dearth of comparable data concerning sustainability in privately owned family businesses. Through …

Agencies around the world are in the process of developing taxonomies and standards for sustainable (or ESG) investment …

Agencies around the world are in the process of developing taxonomies and standards for sustainable (or ESG) investment …

environmental, social, and governance (ESG) concerns by formulating conduct standards. Deviating from this conceptual starting point …, the present paper makes the case for another path towards achieving greater sustainability in capital markets, namely … campaigns and to share the costs of engagement. ESG engagement has the potential to become a very powerful driver towards a more …