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  Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment: On the heterogeneity of sustainable and responsible investors

  We demonstrate that German retail investors have very heterogeneous requirements pertaining to ‘sustainable investments’ as a group, based on a representative survey (n = 1014). According to…

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  Journal of Business Ethics: Individual and regional Christian religion and the consideration of sustainable criteria in consumption and investment decisions: An exploratory econometric analysis

  The concept of sustainable and responsible (SR) investments expresses that every investment should be based on the SR investor’s code of ethics. To a large…

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• Scientific publication, Sustainability Risks and Opportunities

  The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance – Issues and Practice: Are insurance balance sheets carbon-neutral? Harnessing asset pricing for climate change policy

  Due to its enormous size and capital base, the insurance industry has the potential to play a key role in countering climate change. To this…

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  Review of Managerial Science: Corporate scandals and the reliability of ESG assessments: evidence from an international sample

  This paper studies the reliability of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) assessments in the case of corporate scandals. Reliable disclosures on ESG assessments may reduce…

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  Journal of Applied Accounting Research: Board composition and corporate risk-taking: a review of listed firms from Germany and the USA

  Corporate governance is a crucial factor when considering excessive corporate risk-taking. Since corporate boards play such an important role in corporate governance, the purpose of…

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  Journal of Business Ethics: Individual and regional Christian religion and the consideration of sustainable criteria in consumption and investment decisions: An exploratory econometric analysis

  This study aims to shed light on the relationship between individual and regional Christian religion (and religiosity) and individual sustainable behaviors in an exploratory manner,…

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  Journal of Banking & Finance: Which private investors are willing to pay for sustainable investments? Empirical evidence from stated choice experiments

  Based on data from a representative survey among German private financial decision makers that comprised two stated choice experiments for fixed-interest investment products and equity…

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  Oxford Economic Papers: On the relevance of contextual factors for socially responsible investments: an econometric analysis

  On the basis of unique data from an (online) representative web-based survey among financial decision-makers in Germany, this paper empirically examines the relevance of contextual…

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  Journal of Cleaner Production: A review of technology and policy deep decarbonization pathway options for making energy-intensive industry production consistent with the Paris Agreement

  The production of commodities by energy-intensive industry is responsible for 1/3 of annual global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The climate goal of the Paris Agreement,…

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  Energy Journal: Directed Technical Change and Energy Intensity Dynamics: Structural Change vs. Energy Efficiency

  This paper uses a model with Directed Technical Change to theoretically analyse observable heterogeneous energy intensity developments. Based on the empirical evidence, we decompose changes…

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