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CCKP
The Climate Change Knowledge Portal (CCKP) provides global data on historical and future climate, vulnerabilities, and impacts. Explore them via Country, Region, and Watershed views. Access synthesized Country Profiles to ...
HFRX
HFR is the established global leader in the indexation, analysis and research of the hedge fund industry. With over 150 indices ranging from broad composites down to specific, niche areas of sub-strategy and regional ...
BDRC
The Business Dynamics Research Consortium is a public-private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research institute devoted to the study of business performance and economic growth. Operated as a research consortium at the University ...
The salience of ESG ratings for stock pricing: Evidence from (potentially) confused investors
(2021-10-08)
We exploit a modification to Sustainalytics' environmental, social, and governance (ESG) rating methodology, which is subsequently adopted by Morningstar, to study whether ESG ratings are salient for stock pricing. We show ...
Expl(AI)ned: The impact of explainable artificial intelligence on cognitive processes
(2021-06-25)
This paper explores the interplay of feature-based explainable AI (XAI) techniques, information processing, and human beliefs. Using a novel experimental protocol, we study the impact of providing users with explanations ...
P2P Lending versus Banks: Cream Skimming or Bottom Fishing?
(2021-10-08)
We derive three testable predictions from a bank-P2P lender model of competition: (a) P2P lending grows when some banks are faced with exogenously higher regulatory costs, (b) P2P loans are riskier than bank loans, and (c) ...
The role of disclosure in green finance
(2021-08-23)
We study the design features of disclosure regulations that seek to trigger the green transition of the global economy and ask whether such regulatory interventions are likely to bring about sufficient market discipline ...
The geography of banks in the United States (1990-2020)
(2021-09-20)
We present new statistical indicators of the structure and performance of US banks from 1990 to today, geographically disaggregated at the level of individual counties. The constructed data set (20 indicators for some 3150 ...