This paper explores whether increasing fossil fuel divestment commitments are related to thereduction of capital flows into the oil & gas sector, based on an analysis of syndicated lending, equity and bond underwriting across 33 countries from 2000 to 2015. We find that increasing oil & gas...

We investigate how different types of environmental policies and new regional environmental knowledge affect new venture creation in and financing of green (low carbon), brown (fossil fuel) and gray (unrelated to natural resources) technologies across 24 OECD countries and 293 regions over the...

Despite the rising number of green finance policies, the origins shaping them remain largely unexamined. Using survival analysis to investigate the factors influencing the adoption of green finance policies, we find that social movement pressure, proxied by fossil fuel divestment, mainly drives...

We face a finance gap in both, female and impact investing. This paper examines gender influences on impact investment strategy of private equity. Using a comprehensive dataset on all PE deals from 2010-2021, we uncover new evidence that female ownership of PE firms significantly increases the...

Twitter is a vital source for obtaining information, especially during events such as natural disasters. Users can spread information on Twitter either by crafting new posts, which are called “tweets,” or by using the retweet mechanism to re-post previously created tweets. During natural...

An increasingly widespread accounting practice for electricity (scope 2) emissions, known as the ‘market-based method’, is problematic as it allows companies to use purchased renewable energy attributes (REAs) to report lower emissions, which therefore no longer reflect the actual...

Attracting new foreign investment in Romania to support new sustainable infrastructure development is already dependent on the numerous sustainable finance regulations emerging worldwide, in particular the EU Sustainable Finance Action Plan. Scope 1 GHG emissions reported by 9 out of 20 BET...

The article explores which financial instruments have the highest potential to deliver the transition to a low-carbon economy in Romania, given the structure of the national economy. Based on a Scopus comprehensive query resulting in 364 analysed articles on green and sustainable finance in...