Social finance is a rapidly advancing area of practice, policy and research, with a lot of unanswered questions. What does it amount to? What is it to be 'social' in finance? How do you value assets that offer a social as well as a financial return? This book provides a collection of...

This study examines the effect of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) on sustainable investment returns by using panel data of stock market returns and the EPU index from twelve countries for the period from April 2015 to December 2020. In addition, precious metal prices, energy prices, and...

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...