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...

We provide new evidence on the effects of competition on incumbents' innovative behavior by examining the rise of FinTech start-ups over the period 2000-2016. We employ machine learning techniques to classify a large global sample of patent applications into five FinTech categories. We exploit...

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...

We offer preliminary evidence drawing on a novel dataset of corporate bonds issued in the European energy sector since January 2020 in combination with the European Central Bank's (ECB) purchases under the Pandemic Emergency Purchase Programme (PEPP) in response to COVID-19. We show that the...

The rise of fake news has resulted in a wide discrepancy between the attention given to the scientific understanding of an issue versus misinformed and sometimes purposefully disinformed claims (false information that is purposely spread to deceive people) coming from outside the scientific...

We provide new evidence on the effects of competition on incumbents' innovative behavior by examining the rise of FinTech start-ups over the period 2000-2016. We employ machine learning techniques to classify a large global sample of patent applications into five FinTech categories. We exploit...