Financial Markets, Instruments and Intermediaries for Social, Environmental and Fiscal Sustainability

Dear Colleagues,

This special issue will comprise papers covering a wide range of topics related to financial markets and financial intermediaries with instruments and practices related to the corporate social responsibility. The goal is to reconcile creation of economic value with ESG (environmental, social, governance) criteria. Contributions on the novel dimension of fiscal corporate responsibility will also be particularly appreciated. Papers selected for this issue may also address methodological development in measuring ESG risk factor as orthogonal risk factor independent from those traditionally considered in the literature to evaluate the exposition of financial assets to ESG strategies.

The inclusion of characteristics and features of financial and non-financial performance of socially responsible investment funds as well as characteristics and impact of ESG criteria on trading strategies of institutional and non-institutional investors play a strategic role today. The issue will finally focus on the effects of ESG rating scores on financial and non-financial performance, innovation in sustainable finance including green bonds, impact investing, social impact bond, microfinance, and microinsurance.

Prof. Leonardo Becchetti
Prof. Rocco Ciciretti
Guest Editors

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