The evolution of COVID-19 provides information (e.g. daily confirmed contagion cases) to test the performance and resilience of green bonds and ESG indices during crisis periods. After controlling for variables accounting for the state of the economy and market conditions, we find a significant...

We live in peculiar times: on the one hand, many people — mainly in Western countries — enjoy an unprecedentedly high standard of living from a historical perspective. On the other hand, a considerable part of the population has a feeling that something went wrong, which is underscored by...