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

  • Scientific publication

    Journal of Asset Management: Are they any good at all? A financial and ethical analysis of socially responsible mutual funds

    In this article, we examine a broad sample of socially responsible (SR) and conventional mutual funds with respect to financial and ethical parameters. We cannot…

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    European Journal of Operational Research: Tri-criterion inverse portfolio optimization with application to socially responsible mutual funds

    We present a framework for inverse optimization in a Markowitz portfolio model that is extended to include a third criterion. The third criterion causes the…

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    Qualitative Research in Financial Markets: Profiling German-speaking socially responsible investors

    The purpose of this paper is to analyze the main motives of investors in allocating their money in a socially responsible (SR) way. The paper…

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    Business Research: Ethical requirement and financial interest: a literature review on socially responsible investing

    This paper provides an overview of the status quo in socially responsible investing (SRI) literature. We outline motives, history, and current best practice of SRI.…

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    Operations Research: Computing the nondominated surface in tri-criterion portfolio selection

    Computing the nondominated set of a multiple objective mathematical program has long been a topic in multiple criteria decision making. In this paper, motivated by…

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    European Journal of Operational Research: Safety first portfolio choice based on financial and sustainability returns

    The aim of this paper is to expand the methodological spectrum of socially responsible investing by introducing stochastic sustainability returns into safety first models for…

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    Business Research: The effect of the Japan 2011 disaster on nuclear and alternative energy stocks worldwide: an event study

    This event study investigates the impact of the Japanese nuclear disaster in Fukushima-Daiichi on the daily stock prices of French, German, Japanese, and U.S. nuclear…

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    Corporate Ownership and Control: Theoretical foundations of corporate governance revisited: A critical review

    In this paper we review some of the initial ideologies regarding corporate governance, focusing in particular on the – in the literature dominating – Principal-Agent-Approach.…

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