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We Are Still In! Conference report from the 2018 Ceres Conference

2018

This is a report on the 2018 Ceres Conference that took place from April 24 to 26 at the Park Plaza Hotel in Boston, MA. The conference theme was “Scale Up!” while the discussion centered mainly around the “We Are Still In!” movement that has emerged after the pull-out of the Paris Climate Agreement by the Trump administration. The conference was mainly attended by institutional investors, company executives and capital market leaders as well as NGOs and academics. The conference consisted of four plenary and four panel sessions as well as various networking events. nonPeerReviewed

Paris climate agreementkestävä kehitysRenewable Energy Sustainability and the Environmentclimate action020209 energyStrategy and Managementvihreä talousInstitutional investorta1172climate goals02 engineering and technologyPublic administrationsustainabilityIndustrial and Manufacturing EngineeringilmastopolitiikkaPolitical science0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineeringgreen investorsAdministration (government)Capital marketta512General Environmental ScienceTheme (narrative)Journal of Cleaner Production
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Lending Crowdfunding : Principles and Market Development

2020

AbstractCrowdlending has emerged as the leading form of crowdfunding in terms of scope and scale. For lenders, it offers new investment opportunities, often offering better returns than some alternative investment channels, as well as opening to incorporate new small-scale investors that have not enjoyed such opportunities before. For borrowers, it offers new channels to access credit, often either offered at better terms or by including groups that have previously been marginalized and underserved by traditional credit service providers. In the current chapter we present the brief history of crowdlending, its diversity of models, the current state or the industry, as well as the underlying…

VDP::Samfunnsvitenskap: 200::Økonomi: 210Matching (statistics)Scope (project management)Scale (social sciences)Institutional investorAlternative investmentMarket developmentBusinessService providerMarketingDiversity (business)
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Exporting Corporate Governance: Do Foreign and Local Proxy Advisors Differ?

2018

Prior research documents that the large US-based proxy advisors, Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) and Glass Lewis (GL), play an important role as information intermediaries in corporate governance worldwide. We provide initial evidence on the role of local proxy advisors, using the German setting. We analyse voting recommendations by local (IVOX) and foreign (ISS, GL) proxy advisors. First, we find that IVOX’s voting recommendations differ substantially from those of ISS and GL. Second, we observe that IVOX’s against-recommendations are significantly negatively associated with voting support. Third, we find that this association is particularly negative for voting outcomes at compan…

business.industryCorporate governancemedia_common.quotation_subjectInstitutional investorAccountinglanguage.human_languageGermanIntermediaryShareholderNegatively associatedVotinglanguageBusinessProxy (statistics)media_commonSSRN Electronic Journal
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