This paper analyses the suitability of sustainable investments and strategies for the proprietary trading of German savings banks. The paper employs a preliminary panel data analysis of financial statements of all German savings banks from the years of 2013 to 2015 in order to cluster the German...

Although small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) contribute considerably to Germany's carbon emissions, regional savings and cooperative banks - SMEs' most important financiers - hardly consider this aspect in lending to these businesses. However, given Germany's commitment to climate...

German Abstract: Der Forschungsbericht analysiert die Anwendbarkeit nachhaltiger Geldanlagestrategien für das Eigengeschäft (Depot A) deutscher Sparkassen und Landesbanken. Mittels einer Panelanalyse werden zuerst Jahresabschlussdaten dieser Bankengruppe für die Jahre 2013 bis 2015...

What drives investors’ sensitivity to sustainable investment fees? We conduct a large-scale online experiment with samples of individual investors in five European countries. We explore two main channels for investors' sensitivities to fees. First, investors might be willing to pay higher fees...