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Deutsche Bank Group and Maastricht University enter research cooperation on ESG issues

info@corporate-engagement.com (Corporate Engagement) — Tue, 01 May 2012 12:05:36 +0200

April 20, 2012, Deutsche Bank and Maastricht University School of Business and Economics (MUSBE) entered a long-term research collaboration on ESG-related (environmental, social and corporate g...

Political Risk, Project Finance, and the Participation of Development Banks in Syndicated Lending

info@corporate-engagement.com (Corporate Engagement) — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 12:12:27 +0200

How should loan contracts for financing projects in countries with high political risk be designed? Looking at 4,978 project finance loans made to borrowers in 64 countries between 1996 and 200...

Best PhD student paper award for Lei Chen

info@corporate-engagement.com (Corporate Engagement) — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 14:54:53 +0100

PhD candidate Lei Chen was awarded the Credit Mutuel Nord Europe-La Française AM Best PhD Paper Prize, the best paper prize of the 2nd ECCCS Workshop on Governance and Cont...

The diminishing alpha potential of ESG

info@corporate-engagement.com (Corporate Engagement) — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:16:09 +0100

A significant number of institutional investors publicly express the belief that corporate stakeholder relations are associated with (intangible) firm value in a manner that the financial marke...

Value Added From Money Managers in Private Markets? An Examination of Pension Fund Investments in Real Estate

info@corporate-engagement.com (Corporate Engagement) — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:46:55 +0100

Real estate is the most important alternative asset class for pension funds and represents on aver- age more than five percent of their total holdings. We employ a previously unexplored interna...

A Manifesto for Sustainable Capitalism

info@corporate-engagement.com (Corporate Engagement) — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 10:49:45 +0100

Dr Daniel Hann (FINANCE) and Prof. Dr Rob Bauer (FINANCE; Corporate Environmental Management and Credit Risk)...

Rob Bauer comments on Blacklist ABP on Radio1

info@corporate-engagement.com (Corporate Engagement) — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 10:43:49 +0100

Rob Bauer, Professor of Institutional Investors, has appeared in an interview by Goedemorgen Nederland of Rad...

New professional education programme “Investing for Environmental and Social Impact”

info@corporate-engagement.com (Corporate Engagement) — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:51:27 +0100

On 28-30 March 2012, Duisenberg school of Finance and Maastricht University - together with NYU Stern School of Business - organizes a professional education programme on Impact Investing.

Project finance as a driver of economic growth in low-income countries

info@corporate-engagement.com (Corporate Engagement) — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 10:16:08 +0100

This paper, coauthored by Stefanie Kleimeier and Roald Versteeg, investigates the role of project finance as a driver of economic growth. The authors hypothesize that project finance is benefic...

Interview Nils Kok @Greenbuild Next, Toronto

info@corporate-engagement.com (Corporate Engagement) — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 19:52:07 +0100

Short, high-paced interview on "what's next" in green building -- about the finance performance of LEED-certified buildings, the current crisis and future trends.

Finance and Responsibility Business Practices: Research, Practice and Policy conference (3-4 Nov 2011) videos and presentations available now

info@corporate-engagement.com (Corporate Engagement) — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 15:14:15 +0100

ECCE and Haas-CRB brought together leading academic researchers and practitioners from across the globe to discuss the financial implications of a firm’s corporate social responsibility s...

The Market for Independent Directors

info@corporate-engagement.com (Corporate Engagement) — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 09:25:32 +0100

We study the market for independent directors in the United States during the 1996-2006 period within a supply-demand framework. We find that, in parallel with new governance reforms and escala...

Residential Energy Literacy and Capitalization

info@corporate-engagement.com (Corporate Engagement) — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 20:18:31 +0100

The residential sector accounts for some one-fifth of global energy consumption, resulting from the requirements to heat, cool, and to light residential dwellings. Thus it is not surprising tha...

Portfolio Greenness and the Financial Performance of REITs

info@corporate-engagement.com (Corporate Engagement) — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 07:18:31 +0100

This paper investigates the effects of the energy efficiency and sustainability of commercial properties on the operating and stock performance of a sample of US REITs, providing insight into t...

Supply, Demand, and the Value of Green Buildings

info@corporate-engagement.com (Corporate Engagement) — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 20:10:56 +0100

Attention to “sustainability” and energy efficiency rating schemes in the commercial property market has increased rapidly during the past decade. In the UK, commercial properties h...

Investors have more than just voting in their engagement armoury, study finds

info@corporate-engagement.com (Corporate Engagement) — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 13:58:16 +0200

Rob Bauer, Frank Moers, and Michael Viehs have appeared on top1000funds.com on October 12, 2011, “Investors have more than just voting in their engagement armoury, study finds”...

Rob Bauer and Nils Kok in Swedish newspaper "Dagens Industri"

info@corporate-engagement.com (Corporate Engagement) — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 14:28:45 +0200

Rob Bauer and Nils Kok were interviewed by Swedish newspaper "Dagens Industri" after giving speeches at the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment Academic Network Meeti...

Andrea Chegut talks Green Real Estate in the Norwegian Financial Daily

info@corporate-engagement.com (Corporate Engagement) — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 22:38:29 +0200

Andrea Chegut presented at the IPD - KTI Nordic Property Briefing where she spoke with Christopher Sandøy of the ...

Assurance on Sustainability Reports: An International Comparison

info@corporate-engagement.com (Corporate Engagement) — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 17:14:55 +0200

In this paper, co-authored with Roger Simnet and Wai Fong Chua, we study general purpose, non-financial (sustainability) reports.Globally, companies increasingly publish these reports. Some of ...

Values-Driven and Profit-Seeking SRI

info@corporate-engagement.com (Corporate Engagement) — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 09:59:56 +0200

A segmentation of the socially responsible investing (SRI) movement by values-versus-profit orientation solves the puzzling evidence that both socially responsible and controversial stocks prod...