Focal Interest
Focal Interest

Sustainable Finance and Green Bonds

External reference: https://openalex.org/T13146

  1. Higher climate risk weakens EU banking stability
    Climate change reduces EU banking stability; renewable energy and energy taxes provide protection, with effectiveness varying by fiscal stringency and deployment intensity.
  2. Market greenness predicts liquidity shocks
    Market greenness predicts liquidity shocks tied to ESG investor preferences, and ESG-related liquidity better explains stock returns than standard measures during 2015-2019.
  3. Environmental taxes show no robust link to sectoral eco-investments
    Analysis of seven EU countries reveals environmental taxes do not significantly drive sectoral eco-investments when controlling for economic scale, suggesting need for complementary policy mechanisms.
  4. ISSA 5000 standardizes sustainability assurance across jurisdictions
    ISSA 5000 establishes the first international standard for sustainability assurance, providing a unified framework for credible, comparable reporting across jurisdictions and professional contexts.
  5. Trump election linked to overreaction in low-ESG and alternative energy stocks
    Event study analysis of 2024 U.S. election reveals significant market overreaction in ESG and alternative energy stocks, casting doubt on sustainable investment resilience.
  6. KfW lending scheme revealed incentive risks in crisis lending
    Incentive alignment mechanisms for public lending in economic crises, with empirical analysis of KfW COVID-19 program and theoretical contract design proposals.
  7. Natural gas prices and green bonds show a changing two-way link
    Quantile-on-quantile analysis of natural gas price and green bond market interactions reveals nonlinear, time-varying relationships within sustainable development contexts.
  8. Bank diversification has mixed effects on performance
    Systematic review of bank diversification and performance 2006-2025, examining how monetary policy and macroeconomic conditions influence diversification strategy outcomes and risk-adjusted returns.
  9. Eco-coherent fiscal and energy policies are linked to lower pollution costs
    Dynamic analysis of fiscal-energy policy synchronization and pollution cost reduction in Mediterranean economies using Kuramoto modeling and nonlinear autoregressive distributed lag estimation.
  10. ESG controversies raise banks' operating costs
    Stochastic frontier analysis of ESG controversies and banking cost efficiency reveals significant operating expense increases moderated by institutional quality and baseline ESG performance.
  11. Asia plays a marginal role in debt-for-nature swaps
    Explore why Asia accounts for only 13% of debt-for-nature swaps despite high debt and environmental needs. Discover which Asian economies are positioned for future transactions.
  12. Green finance is linked to stronger bank sustainability in Pakistan
    Empirical analysis of green finance dimensions and sustainable performance in Pakistani banking sector using structural equation modeling 2018-2022.
  13. Green Growth as a Pillar of Viksit Bharat: A Fixed Effects Analysis of Renewable Energy, Finance, and State-Level Development in India
    Fixed effects analysis of 30 Indian states from 2005-2023 finds 10% renewable energy capacity increase associated with 1.42% GSDP growth, with green finance amplifying effects.
  14. Review maps links between geopolitical risk and ESG dynamics
    Systematic review of geopolitical risk and ESG dynamics intersection, identifying five thematic clusters and proposing future research agendas for institutional stakeholders.