{"title":"No need to worry? Estimating the exposure of the German banking sector to climate-related transition risks","authors":"Paola D'Orazio, Tobias Hertel, Fynn Kasbrink","doi":"10.1080/20430795.2024.2336567","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20430795.2024.2336567","url":null,"abstract":"Climate change poses several risks to the value of financial assets and financial stability. The study conducted in this paper focuses on the German banking sector and estimates its exposure to cli...","PeriodicalId":45546,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2024-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140594308","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ESG controversies, corporate governance, and the market for corporate control","authors":"Sirimon Treepongkaruna, Khine Kyaw, Pornsit Jiraporn","doi":"10.1080/20430795.2024.2334253","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20430795.2024.2334253","url":null,"abstract":"Capitalizing on a unique measure of takeover vulnerability, we examine how the takeover market, which is widely regarded as a crucial instrument of external governance, influences environmental, so...","PeriodicalId":45546,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140594673","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sustainable performance during the COVID-19 pandemic: a comparative analysis of Islamic and conventional banks","authors":"Miroslav Mateev, Kiran Nair, Golam Mostafa Khan","doi":"10.1080/20430795.2024.2334252","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20430795.2024.2334252","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines the role of market competition and efficiency in explaining banks’ stability during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using a sample of 575 banks in 20 countries in the Middle East and Nor...","PeriodicalId":45546,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2024-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140298438","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sustainability-valued discrete option pricing in complete markets","authors":"Yuan Hu, W. Brent Lindquist, Svetlozar T. Rachev","doi":"10.1080/20430795.2024.2330518","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20430795.2024.2330518","url":null,"abstract":"We consider option pricing using recombining binomial trees, with a two-fold purpose. The first is to introduce environmental, social and governance (ESG) sustainability valuation into option prici...","PeriodicalId":45546,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2024-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140298605","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
F.A.J. Wagemans, R.J. Verstappen, C.S.A. van Koppen, H. Tobi, A.P.J. Mol
{"title":"Institutional investors and the adoption of socially responsible investment: an explorative case study of Dutch pension funds","authors":"F.A.J. Wagemans, R.J. Verstappen, C.S.A. van Koppen, H. Tobi, A.P.J. Mol","doi":"10.1080/20430795.2024.2327550","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20430795.2024.2327550","url":null,"abstract":"Although socially responsible investment (SRI) is on the rise, little is known about the adoption process of SRI practices by institutional investors. In this study, we formulate expectations for S...","PeriodicalId":45546,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2024-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140169585","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sofia Maniatakou, Beatrice Crona, Isabelle Jean-Charles, Moa Ohlsson, Kate Lillepold, Amar Causevic
{"title":"A science-based heuristic to guide sector-level SDG investment strategy","authors":"Sofia Maniatakou, Beatrice Crona, Isabelle Jean-Charles, Moa Ohlsson, Kate Lillepold, Amar Causevic","doi":"10.1080/20430795.2024.2320318","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20430795.2024.2320318","url":null,"abstract":"Aligning investments with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has been a longstanding ambition for many private investors. The assessment of corporate impact on the SDGs is not a trivial task, and...","PeriodicalId":45546,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2024-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140005366","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An empirical investigation of banks’ sustainability performance under economic policy uncertainty","authors":"Ahmed W. Alam, M. Kabir Hassan, Hasanul Banna","doi":"10.1080/20430795.2024.2309499","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20430795.2024.2309499","url":null,"abstract":"This paper empirically explores the effect of policy-related economic uncertainty on banks’ sustainability performance, measured by bank-level environmental, social, and governance (ESG) ratings. B...","PeriodicalId":45546,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2024-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139769291","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Eleonora Broccardo, Andrea Trevisiol, Sandra Paterlini
{"title":"Climate risk in finance: unveiling transition risk exposure in green vs. brown companies","authors":"Eleonora Broccardo, Andrea Trevisiol, Sandra Paterlini","doi":"10.1080/20430795.2024.2315151","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20430795.2024.2315151","url":null,"abstract":"This study delved into transition risk by introducing a novel Climate Transition Score to evaluate the climate-related performance of the most capitalized firms in the stock markets of developed co...","PeriodicalId":45546,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2024-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139769293","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Environmental performance factors: insights from CSR-linked compensation, committees, disclosure, targets, and board composition","authors":"Lewis Liu","doi":"10.1080/20430795.2024.2313497","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20430795.2024.2313497","url":null,"abstract":"This research investigates the factors influencing Corporate Environmental Performance (CEP) using S&P 500 firm-level data spanning 2001-2022. Drawing on existing literature, the study argues that ...","PeriodicalId":45546,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2024-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139769295","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Charilaos Mertzanis, Hazem Marashdeh, Nohade Nasrallah, Abu Reza Mohammad Islam
{"title":"Sustainable investment conditions and firm performance in the Middle East and North Africa: a holistic approach","authors":"Charilaos Mertzanis, Hazem Marashdeh, Nohade Nasrallah, Abu Reza Mohammad Islam","doi":"10.1080/20430795.2024.2303492","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20430795.2024.2303492","url":null,"abstract":"We analyze the effect of sustainable investment conditions on firm performance in the Middle East and North African countries. We measure sustainable investment conditions by the extent of market p...","PeriodicalId":45546,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139769279","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}