Publications

Publikationen

The members of the Sustainable Finance Research Platform publish their research in various formats.

The Platform’s Policy Briefs play a central role. In addition, there are discussion and working papers from the partner institutes as well as selected external publications.

All publications

  • Policy Brief, Sustainability Risks and Opportunities

    PB 3/2023: Climate transition plans: State of play in EU legislation and policy recommendations

    Company transition plans (of real economy and financial market actors) have the potential to become a steering instrument for directing capital flows toward climate neutrality…

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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

    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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  • Policy Brief, Sustainability Reporting

    PB 3/2022: Raising transparency through TCFD-aligned climate reporting

    The availability of consistent and comparable climate-related information is a decisive factor in considering the effects of climate change for business and investment decisions. The…

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  • Policy Brief, Sustainability Reporting

    PB 2/2022: Closing the transparency gap: Germany’s G7 presidency is an opportunity to promote sustainability reporting internationally

    The German G7 presidency presents the opportunity to advance a central pillar of sustainable finance at the international level: mandatory disclosure of ESG risks and…

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  • Scientific publication

    iScience: Carbon Contracts-for-Difference: how to de-risk innovative investments for a low-carbon industry

    The shift to climate neutrality requires new process technologies for energy-intensive industries, such as steel, chemicals, or cement. A variety of technology options exist –…

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