Laurens Swinkels

"Beyond Greenwashing: How does Firm-Level Biodiversity Disclosure Affect Corporate Sustainability Strategy?"

#Sustainability #Biodiversity #Greenwashing #EconSky #FinSky #Academic

Link to paper: ssrn.com/abstract=522...

Woke picture 🫣

Morning walk in Breugel 🇳🇱

I put the model fit graph even in the main text of my latest paper, to supplement the table with coefficients 😀

Wow, that’s a lot of yesses. Had to look up Avogadro’s number, but then think I should have known from my physics/chemistry in high school 😀

I am in financial economics, where we have not lowered our profession to graphical abstracts. Not yet, at least 😀

Anybody else finds that the "highlights" that some journals these days require a poor substitute for a crappy abstract?

#academic #publication #journal #highlights #abstract

'Positive review only': Researchers hide AI prompts in papers Instructions in preprints from 14 universities highlight controversy on AI in peer review

Reviewing using AI tools is frowned upon… but just in case, some authors include hidden prompts in their manuscripts 😀

#academic #publish #ai

Yesterday’s morning walk in Oslo 🇳🇴

Detroit sues crypto landlord RealT over blight, tenant harm The lawsuit alleges RealT, a cryptocurrency-based real estate company, failed to maintain hundreds of properties it owns in Detroit.

BREAKING: The City of Detroit is suing a cryptocurrency-based real estate company RealT for failing to maintain hundreds of rental properties across the city, following investigations by @outliermedia.org.

outliermedia.org/realt-lawsui...

Türkiye's Parliament adopts first-ever climate law Promising a wide range of provisions and increased vigilance against climate change, the new law is to provide action plans on a national and local scale,...

Perhaps emerging markets are leading the way this time around...

#Climate #ClimateChange #Carbon #Regulations #Turkiye

​Norway launches independent review of SWF’s active management Academics Trond Døskeland and André Wattø Sjuve of Bergen's NHH appointed as expert group

#Norway #SovereignWealthFunds #Investing

Global Banks Increase Fossil-Fuel Funding as Climate Pledges Crumble New report shows that banks poured nearly $900 billion into financing coal, oil and gas projects in 2024.

#Climate #Sustainability #Banks #EconSky

Hedging against inflation: International evidence on investor clientele effects in the bond market Governments across the world have issued inflation-linked debt to finance their deficits. Recent advances in asset pricing models recognize that there may be clientele effects that affect relative pri...

New DNB Working Paper “Hedging against inflation: International evidence on investor clientele effects in the bond market” online.

Summary video:
English: app.heygen.com/share/253336...
Dutch: app.heygen.com/share/dc1c50...
Chinese: app.heygen.com/share/ac4f69...

#EconSky #Academic #Inflation

Seizing quant and fundamental alpha in developed equity markets | Robeco Global Discover how blending quant and fundamental strategies in developed markets helps unlock alpha amid high valuations and market concentration.

New paper on the added value of diversifying across quant and fundamental investment styles.

#FinSky #Investing #Quant #Stocks #Funds

Stock market tracker

Does private equity outperform public markets? Not, this paper argues, when it is measured appropriately.
http://spkl.io/63320fhakQ
#Finance #EconSky

Fantastic new research on historical default losses of investing in government bonds!

Link to article: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#EconSky #HistorySky #FinSky #Investing #Bonds

1. Trump's tax cuts overwhelmingly help the rich
2. His spending cuts are targeted at the poor
3. Tariffs cost the poor a larger share of their income

Roll these three regressive policies together and you get the largest redistribution from poor to rich in American history.

The anti-Robin Hood.

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Authorship for sale: Nature investigates how paper mills work Companies selling authorship slots thrive in a culture that equates success with a strong publication record. Customers, sleuths and the shadowy owner of a paper mill explain why.

This may be a contributing factor in why society is turning away from science... publications/research fraud has turned into a business.

#Academic #Fraud #Paper #Publication

It’s normal for stocks to collapse 85 per cent After the fall

🚨 It's completely normal to lose 85% on your favourite stock. And we've got the charts to prove it!
on.ft.com/3ZlyvFJ

New paper on the investment/divestment policies of investors when it comes to domestic and foreign high carbon emitting companies.

Link to (open access) paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.jc...

#sustainability #climate #investing #econsky #academic

Finally, economists have somebody to chat with: EconBERT!

Link to paper: dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...

#EconSky #Economics #LLM #BERT #Academic

Do smart financially smart people own crypto? --> Crypto Ownership Among Young People in Italy

Link to paper: dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...

#Crypto #Blockchain #EconSky #FinSky #Investing #Italy

Families' wealth in 1427 predicts their wealth in 2011.

Do Machine Learning Models Need to Be Sector Experts?

#MachineLearning #ML #Investing #FinSky

Link to paper: dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...

Apparently, Google Scholar can be manipulated to get artificially high citation number and H-index.

Link to working paper: arxiv.org/abs/2402.04607

#Academic #EconSky #Science #Publication #Citation

Insightful blog by Jesper Rangvid on the governance of increasing the pension age in Denmark 🇩🇰 to 70 (by 2040).

#pensions #econsky #denmark #ageing

Morning walk in Kongsvinger 🇳🇴

The image shows a line graph comparing Poland's GDP per capita to the average GDP per capita of the European Union (EU 27) from 2000 to 2023. The vertical axis ranges from $0 to $60,000, while the horizontal axis represents the years, marked from 2000 to 2023. A red line represents Poland's GDP per capita, starting at around $21,200 in 2004, the year Poland joined the EU, and increasing to approximately $44,400 by 2023. A blue line depicts the EU average GDP per capita, which trends higher than Poland's throughout the graph. A note emphasizes that between 2004 and 2023, Poland's GDP per capita more than doubled, reducing the gap with the EU average. The source of the data is the World Bank, projected for 2025, and the data is expressed in international dollars adjusted to 2021 prices.

Poland’s GDP per capita has more than doubled since it joined the European Union in 2004