Publications

• Scientific publication

  Finance Research Letters: Rating changes revisited: New evidence on short-term ESG momentum

  Environmental, social and governance (ESG) ratings are mainstream in sustainable finance. This paper provides important evidence on the effects of ESG rating changes on companies’…

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• Scientific publication

  Environmental and Resource Economics: Low-Carbon Investment and Credit Rationing

  This paper develops a principal-agent model with adverse selection to analyse firms’ decisions between an existing carbon-intensive technology and a new low-carbon technology requiring an…

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• Policy Brief, Sustainability Risks and Opportunities

  PB 6/2022: The first ECB bottom-up climate stress test: dealing with data gaps and methodological challenges

  The ECB’s “SSM Climate risk stress test,” published in July 2022, provides an important step toward integrating climate change related risks into the banking system.…

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• Policy Brief, Sustainability Reporting, Sustainability Risks and Opportunities

  PB 5/2022: Standardized stress test scenario can improve climate risk reporting

  More and more countries, regions, cities, companies, and financial institutions are defining climate neutrality as a strategic goal. So far, however, it is not possible…

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• Policy Brief, Sustainability Reporting

  PB 4/2022: Key observations about the open EU consultation on the functioning of the EU ESG ratings market

  The European Commission has launched a consultation on the functioning of the ESG ratings market in the European Union and on the consideration of ESG…

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