Publications
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
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Policy Brief, Sustainability Reporting
PB 2/2021: Investors Face Challenges with Corporate Carbon Emissions Data – Call for a Mandatory Disclosure Regulation
In this policy brief, we discuss the importance, availability, and quality of carbon data to investors who wish to mitigate climate change. In the absence…
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Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment: The EU sustainable finance taxonomy and its contribution to climate neutrality
The EU Taxonomy is the first standardised and comprehensive classification system for sustainable economic activities. It covers activities responsible for up to 80% of EU…
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The Energy Journal: Financing Power: Impacts of Energy Policies in Changing Regulatory Environments
Power systems with increasing shares of wind and solar power generation have higher capital costs and lower operational costs than power systems based on fossil…
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Intereconomics: The European Green Deal — More Than Climate Neutrality
The European Green Deal aims at climate neutrality for Europe by 2050, implying a significant acceleration of emission reductions. To gain the necessary support, it…
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Climate Policy: A green COVID-19 recovery of the EU basic materials sector: identifying potentials, barriers and policy solutions
This paper explores climate-friendly projects that could be part of the COVID-19 recovery while jump-starting the transition of the European basic materials industry. Findings from…
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Journal of Banking & Finance: The effects of mutual fund decarbonization on stock prices and carbon emissions
This study seeks to determine whether mutual fund decarbonization affects the stock prices of divested firms and contributes to the reduction of these firms’ carbon…
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Journal of Portfolio Management: Get green or die trying? Carbon risk integration into portfolio management
Portfolio management is confronting climate change more strongly and rapidly than expected. Risks arising from the transition from a brown, carbon-based to a green, low-carbon…
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The Accounting Review: Spillover effects of tax avoidance on peers’ firm value
This research examines spillover effects of tax avoidance on peers’ firm value using the setting of the European Commission’s state aid investigations of private letter…
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SN Business & Economics: Impact investments: a call for (re)orientation
Practitioners and academics have been using different terms to describe investments in the sustainability context. The latest inflationary term is impact investments—investments that focus on…
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Corporate Finance: Regulatory framework for sustainable investment products – Current developments and associated challenges
With the Sustainable Finance legislative package published by the European Commission on April 21, 2021, another valuable step has been taken towards sustainable financial development.…
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