• The Geography of Shareholder Engagement
  

  Working paper

  07-05-13 | Rob Bauer | Gordon Clark | Michael Viehs | In this ECCE working paper, we study the global corporate engagement activities of a large...

  Media Quicklinks

  • The Geography of Shareholder Engagement
  Read full research
• Practice What You Preach
  

  ECCE Webinar

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

  Media Quicklinks

  • Slides ECCE Webinar
  • Video ECCE webinar
  Read full research
• Learning about stakeholders and stock returns
  

  Working paper

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

  Media Quicklinks

  • The diminishing alpha potential of ESG
  Read full research
• 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...

  Media Quicklinks

  • Eichholtz Kok Quigley 2013
  • Presentation
  • Movie Presentation at Regenerative Network, Berkeley
  • RICS Research Report
  Read full research
• Energy Consumption and the Durable Building Stock: The Capital Vintage…

  Working paper

  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...

  Media Quicklinks

  • NBER Working Paper #18781
  • Energy Consumption and the Durable Building Stock: The Capital Vintage Paradox
  Read full research
• A Bitter Brew? Futures Speculation and Commodity Prices
  

  Working paper

  30-10-12 | Jaap W.B. Bos | With this paper, we (Jaap Bos and Maarten van der Molen) contribute to the current debate about...

  Media Quicklinks

  • A Bitter Brew? Futures Speculation and Commodity Prices
  • Lecture for Studium Generale
  Read full research
• Financial Crises and Cross-Border Banking

  Journal of Int. Money and Finance

  02-10-12 | Stefanie Kleimeier | The surge in cross-border banking prior to global financial crises took place not only in the interbank market but also in the retail market, e.g. between banks and their private customers abroad. We utilize confidential data to estimate for the first time the effects of banking, currency and twin crises on the geography of cross-border deposits and loans. We show that each crisis type has its own specific effects, that these effects themselves lead to sustained increases in cross-border banking, and that they are different for cross-border loans and deposits, respectively. In particular, we...

  Media Quicklinks

  • Financial Crises and Cross-Border Banking: New Evidence
  Read full research
• Sociaal gedrag van linkse en rechtse kiezers
  

  Working paper

  17-09-12 | Paul Smeets | In de afgelopen verkiezingen positioneerden linkse partijen zich in het debat vaak socialer dan...

  Read full research
• Social Preferences and Investor Loyalty
  

  Working paper

  17-09-12 | Rob Bauer | Paul Smeets | This paper shows that social preferences are positively related to investor loyalty. We collect...

  Read full research
• 2012 GRESB Report
  

  Working paper

  05-09-12 | Rob Bauer | Piet Eichholtz | Nils Kok | The GRESB global membership now includes more than 35 institutional real estate investors and...

  Media Quicklinks

  • 2012 GRESB Report
  • Read the 2012 GRESB Report online!
  Read full research

Partners/Sponsors