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Julia Eckert

Julia Eckert is a research associate and doctoral student at the Chair of Sustainable Finance (Prof. Dr. Christian Klein) at the University of Kassel. Her research focuses on the analysis of the sustainable investment behavior of individual investors, the role of financial advisory services and impact investing. Additionally, she focuses on financial market regulation in the field of sustainable finance.

  • Policy Brief

    PB 4/2024: Does MiFID II enable private investors to invest sustainably?

    MiFID II is a comprehensive regulatory framework aimed at increasing transparency and oversight in the European financial markets, improving investor protection, and preventing market abuse.…

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  • Policy Brief

    PB 2/2023: The role of sustainable investments in the transformation: (further) education as a key element

    Sustainable investments can be an important building block in the transformation of the economy and society. There has recently been a growing interest in sustainable…

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  • 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

    Finance Research Letters: Disaggregating confusion? The EU Taxonomy and its relation to ESG rating

    This paper discusses the EU Taxonomy in the context of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) ratings. ESG firm-level ratings tend to differ across ESG data…

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