WestLB (A): In the pipeline - responsible financing

The idea of an EU bond, a common safe asset, has been gaining attention lately, particularly following calls for its introduction this month by former Italian prime minister Mario Draghi.

In addition to traditional venture capital (VC), governmental VC and social impact VC investors have emerged as alternatives to fund entrepreneurial ventures, especially start-ups that incorporate social and/or environmental objectives into commer...

The call by the former Italian prime minister and ECB president for massive investment in the EU is a wake-up call to Europe's economic stagnation. But can the continent afford the trade-offs it is overlooking?

We study the effects of carbon transition risk on equity prices in the United States and Europe using disclosed carbon intensity data and find a negative effect on the cross section of returns and a negative carbon premium for the period 2009–2019...

Forecasting Bitcoin’s returns continues to be a challenging endeavor for both scholars and practitioners. In this paper, we train a random forest model on a variety of features, with the aim of predicting pronounced changes in the returns of Bitco...

For years, the sheer size of China’s economy made it an irresistible magnet for foreign investors, with many – including sovereign wealth funds from the Gulf – contemplating larger allocations to the country. China’s economy, generating more than ...