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Allgemeine Informationen
Topics related to debt market:
- Characteristics of bond issuers: An empirical analysis of European private firms
- Development of corporate bond market in various countries
- The impact of Brexit on the activity in the European corporate bond market
- The UK corporate bond market: Development trends across market segments
- Characteristics of bond issuers around the world
- Green bonds in Europe and the US: The impact of environmental certification on bond characteristics
- Differences across certifications of green bonds and their impact on bond characteristics
Topics related to sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR, ESG):
- Mandatory non-financial disclosure in the European Union
- Development of sustainability reporting across countries
- Disclosure practices of sustainability reporting
- Corporate social responsibility advertising
- Corporate social responsibility of private firms
- Environmental risk reporting: Regulatory trends and reporting practices
- Green bonds in Europe and the US: The impact of environmental certification on bond characteristics
- Differences across certifications of green bonds and their impact on bond characteristics
Topics related to firm transparency:
- Measuring financial reporting transparency in private firms
Topics related to debt market:
- Availability of corporate bond data for empirical analysis
- Characteristics of bond issuers: Differences across market segments
- Private firms in the European bond market
- Characteristics of international and national firms issuing bonds in Europe
- Premium for green bonds in the European corporate bond market
- Are firms that issue green bonds more transparent?
Topics related to sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR, ESG):
- Cross-country differences in voluntary disclosure of non-financial information
- Environmental risk disclosure and firm value: Evidence from listed companies
- Gender structure of boardrooms in UK firms and firm value
- Consumer proximity and CSR reporting: Evidence from the UK and Ireland
- Corporate social responsibility performance and its measures
- Measures of quality of corporate social responsibility reporting
- Mandatory CSR reporting in various countries and its time trends
- Mandatory CSR reporting in banking industry and its time trends
- Best Practices in CSR reporting and application to specific companies
- Premium for green bonds in the European corporate bond market
- Are firms that issue green bonds more transparent?
Topics related to firm transparency:
- The relation between firm characteristics and firms’ rating on diverse job search platforms
- Availability of financial reporting information of European firms
- Financial reporting transparency and activities on the M&A market
- The insolvency process for German Firms
Topics related to standard setting:
- Does goodwill signal value to investors?
- Implementation of IFRS 15 by listed companies in various countries
- The effect of IFRS 8 segment reporting on the convergence of management accounting and financial accounting in Germany
