• The Geography of Shareholder Engagement
  

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  07-05-13 | Rob Bauer | Gordon Clark | Michael Viehs | In this ECCE working paper, we study the global corporate engagement activities of a large UK-based asset manager from 2006 to 2011. Using proprietary data on these activities, we find that corporate engagements "behind-the-scenes" are frequently used to change corporate behavior. We show that geography is an important determinant for the occurrence of such engagements: UK firms receive significantly more engagements than their foreign counterparts. This finding...

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• Practice What You Preach
  

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  16-04-13 | Jaap W.B. Bos | Matteo Millone | Does the focus on financial versus social performance affect the efficiency of double bottom line...

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• Learning about stakeholders and stock returns
  

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  21-03-13 | Jeroen Derwall | Kees Koedijk | A significant number of institutional investors publicly state the belief that corporate...

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  • The diminishing alpha potential of ESG
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• The Economics of Green Building
  

  Review of Economics & Statistics

  04-03-13 | Piet Eichholtz | Nils Kok | Research on climate change suggests that small improvements in the “sustainability” of...

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  • Eichholtz Kok Quigley 2013
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  • RICS Research Report
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• Energy Consumption and the Durable Building Stock: The Capital Vintage…

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  23-12-12 | Matthew Kahn | Nils Kok | The durable building stock plays a key role in determining the urban sustainability of a metropolitan area. While the residential sector has been the primary focus of energy policies, commercial buildings are now responsible for most of the durable building stock’s total electricity consumption. This paper exploits a unique panel of commercial buildings to document that electricity consumption and building quality are complements, not substitutes. Technological progress may reduce the energy demand from heating, cooling and ventilation, but the behavioral response of building tenants...

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  • NBER Working Paper #18781
  • Energy Consumption and the Durable Building Stock: The Capital Vintage Paradox
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