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Overview

Bert Scholtens is affiliated with the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. Their research primarily spans the fields of Economics, Econometrics and Finance, and Business, Management and Accounting, with a substantial body of work reflecting expertise in various related subfields.

The main subfields of study in Scholtens's work include Economics and Econometrics, Finance, Strategy and Management, Accounting, and Marketing. These areas frame the broad scope of their academic pursuits.

The scientist's research centers on significant topics such as Climate Change Policy and Economics, Energy, Environment, Economic Growth, Market Dynamics and Volatility, Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting, Environmental Sustainability in Business, Financial Markets and Investment Strategies, and Global Energy and Sustainability Research.

Frequent co-authors with whom Scholtens has collaborated include:

  • Auke Plantinga
  • Arjan Trinks
  • Machiel Mulder
  • Lina Xie
  • Swarnodeep Homroy

Scholtens has published extensively in several academic venues. The most frequently appearing publications are in:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Ecological Economics
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
  • PLoS ONE

Their recent published papers include:

  • "An Efficiency Perspective on Carbon Emissions and Financial Performance," 2020, Ecological Economics
  • "Impact investments: a call for (re)orientation," 2021, SN Business & Economics
  • "The financial impact of fossil fuel divestment," 2020, Climate Policy
  • "Carbon Intensity and the Cost of Equity Capital," 2021, The Energy Journal
  • "Under his thumb the effect of president Donald Trump's Twitter messages on the US stock market," 2020, PLoS ONE

Best Publications

  • The stocks at stake: Return and risk in socially responsible investment.

    Rients Galema;Auke Plantinga;Bert Scholtens

  • Corporate Social Responsibility in the International Banking Industry

    Bert Scholtens

  • ESG Integration and the Investment Management Process: Fundamental Investing Reinvented

    Emiel van Duuren;Auke Plantinga;Bert Scholtens;Bert Scholtens

  • Finance as a Driver of Corporate Social Responsibility

    Bert Scholtens

  • Power to the people: Local community initiatives and the transition to sustainable energy

    Tineke van der Schoor;Bert Scholtens

  • A note on the interaction between corporate social responsibility and financial performance

    Bert Scholtens

  • The impact of bank ownership concentration on impaired loans and capital adequacy

    Choudhry Tanveer Shehzad;Jakob de Haan;Bert Scholtens

  • Cultural Values and International Differences in Business Ethics

    Bert Scholtens;Lammertjan Dam

  • Banking on the equator. Are banks that adopted the equator principles different from non-adopters?

    Bert Scholtens;Lammertjan Dam

  • Corporate Social Responsibility and Earnings Management: Evidence from Asian Economies

    Bert Scholtens;Feng-Ching Kang

  • A critique on the theory of financial intermediation

    Bert Scholtens;Dick van Wensveen;Dick van Wensveen

  • Does Ownership Type Matter for Corporate Social Responsibility

    Lammertjan Dam;Bert Scholtens

  • Ownership Concentration and CSR Policy of European Multinational Enterprises

    Lammertjan Dam;Bert Scholtens

  • The theory of financial intermediation: An essay on what it does (not) explain

    Bert Scholtens;D.M.N. van Wensveen

  • The Effects of Corporate and Country Sustainability Characteristics on The Cost of Debt: An International Investigation

    Andreas Hoepner;Ioannis Oikonomou;Bert Scholtens;Michael Schröder

  • The Opportunity Cost of Negative Screening in Socially Responsible Investing

    Pieter Jan Trinks;Bert Scholtens;Bert Scholtens

  • Oil price shocks and European industries

    Bert Scholtens;Cenk Yurtsever

  • Drivers of Socially Responsible Investing: A Case Study of Four Nordic Countries

    Bert Scholtens;Riikka Sievänen

  • Fossil Fuel Divestment and Portfolio Performance

    Arjan Trinks;Bert Scholtens;Machiel Mulder;Lammertjan Dam

  • An efficiency perspective on carbon emissions and financial performance

    Arjan Trinks;Machiel Mulder;Bert Scholtens

  • Comparing financial systems.

    B Scholtens

  • Market microstructure: Intermediaries and the theory of the firm.

    B Scholtens

Frequent Co-Authors

Jakob de Haan
Jakob de Haan University of Groningen
Beatrice Crona
Beatrice Crona Stockholm University
Robert Lensink
Robert Lensink University of Groningen
Victor Galaz
Victor Galaz Stockholm University
Genia Kostka
Genia Kostka Freie Universität Berlin
Klaus Hubacek
Klaus Hubacek University of Groningen
Arthur P.J. Mol
Arthur P.J. Mol Wageningen University & Research
U. Rashid Sumaila
U. Rashid Sumaila University of British Columbia
Dabo Guan
Dabo Guan Tsinghua University
Reinhard Steurer
Reinhard Steurer BOKU University

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