This introduction of the special issue about responsible investments deals with the main theoretical, methodological and empirical challenges. It also highlights the key features of the papers in this special issue. Copyright (C) 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment.

ABSTRACT We investigate whether mandatory energy performance certificates of existing residential properties contribute to property price premiums after the implementation of the EU directive on the energy performance of buildings in the Swedish private housing market. Analysing mandatory energy...

Increasingly, information on environmental, social and corporate governance has experienced attention around the world permeating into the focus of not only the general public but corporations, accountants, analysts, investors as well as policy makers. This paper investigates how corporate...

Short-term electricity price forecasting has received considerable attention in recent years. Despite this increased interest, the literature lacks a concrete consensus on the most suitable forecasting approach. This study reports an extensive empirical analysis that we conducted to evaluate the...

The Dow Jones Sustainability Group Index (DJSGI) is really a family of indexes used to identify and track the performance of sustainably-run companies. When the DJSGI was introduced in September 1999, it was claimed to outperform the more generalised Dow Jones Global Index (DJGI) in respect to...

Unlike most previous research that merely looks at the perceptions of analysts, this report examines the environmental information financial analysts actually use in their analyst reports. Out of almost 4,500 analyst reports about 36 percent contain environmental information, varying between 3...

External assessment of companies’ environmental aspects often focus on the existence of strategies, commitments, management systems and reporting of firms that concerns environmental aspects. Instead, in line with extra financial analysis, in order to play a role in decision-making, analysis...