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Rob Bauer is affiliated with Maastricht University in the Netherlands. The researcher's work primarily spans the fields of Business, Management and Accounting as well as Economics, Econometrics and Finance. Their subfields of study include Finance, Economics and Econometrics, Accounting, Strategy and Management, and Marketing.

Their research topics cover a range of areas including Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting, Financial Markets and Investment Strategies, Environmental Sustainability in Business, Corporate Finance and Governance, Economic and Environmental Valuation, Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics, and Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis.

Rob Bauer has published extensively with frequent appearances in the following venues:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Review of Financial Studies
  • AEA Randomized Controlled Trials
  • Management Science
  • Financial Analysts Journal

Some of their recent papers are:

  • Get Real! Individuals Prefer More Sustainable Investments, 2021, Review of Financial Studies
  • Climate Change, Firm Performance, and Investor Surprises, 2023, Management Science
  • Private Shareholder Engagements on Material ESG Issues, 2022, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • A Fistful of Dollars: Financial Incentives, Peer Information, and Retirement Savings, 2021, Review of Financial Studies
  • Private Shareholder Engagements on Material ESG Issues, 2023, Financial Analysts Journal

The researcher has collaborated frequently with:

  • Paul Smeets
  • Jeroen Derwall
  • Colin Tissen
  • Dirk Broeders
  • Katrin Gödker

Best Publications

  • International Evidence on Ethical Mutual Fund Performance and Investment Style

    Rob Bauer;Kees Koedijk;Rogér Otten

  • The Eco-Efficiency Premium Puzzle

    Jeroen Derwall;Nadja Guenster;Rob Bauer;Kees Koedijk

  • Empirical evidence on corporate governance in Europe: The effect on stock returns, firm value and performance

    Rob Bauer;Nadja Guenster;Rogér Otten

  • The Economic Value of Corporate Eco‐Efficiency

    Nadja Guenster;Rob Bauer;Jeroen Derwall;Kees Koedijk

  • Get Real! Individuals Prefer More Sustainable Investments

    Rob Bauer;Tobias Ruof;Paul Smeets

  • The Ethical Mutual Fund Performance Debate: New Evidence from Canada

    Rob Bauer;Jeroen Derwall;Jeroen Derwall;Rogér Otten

  • Sustainable development and financial markets: Old paths and new avenues

    Timo Busch;Rob Bauer;Marc Orlitzky

  • Ethical investing in Australia: is there a financial penalty?

    Rob Bauer;Rogér Otten;Alireza Tourani Rad

  • Climate Change, Firm Performance, and Investor Surprises

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  • International Evidence on Ethical Mutual Fund Performance and Investment Style

    Rogér Otten;Rob Bauer;Kees C. G. Koedijk

  • The Impact of Corporate Governance on Corporate Performance: Evidence from Japan

    Rob Bauer;Bart Frijns;Bart Frijns;Rogér Otten;Alireza Tourani-Rad

  • Corporate Environmental Management and Credit Risk

    Rob Bauer;Daniel Hann

  • Pension Fund Asset Allocation and Liability Discount Rates

    Aleksandar Andonov;Rob M.M.J. Bauer;K.J. Martijn Cremers

  • Social identification and investment decisions

    R.M.M.J. Bauer;P.M.A. Smeets

  • Corporate Governance and Performance: The REIT Effect

    R.M.M.J. Bauer;P.M.A. Eichholtz;N. Kok

  • Option trading and individual investor performance

    R.M.M.J. Bauer;M.M.J.E. Cosemans;P.M.A. Eichholtz

  • Get Real! Individuals Prefer More Sustainable Investments

    Rob Bauer;Tobias Ruof;Paul Smeets

  • Climate Change, Firm Performance, and Investor Surprises

    Nora M. C. Pankratz;Rob Bauer;Jeroen Derwall;Jeroen Derwall

  • The Economic Value of Corporate Eco-Efficiency

    Rob Bauer;Nadja Guenster;Nadja Guenster;Jeroen Derwall;Jeroen Derwall;Kees C. G. Koedijk

  • The Eco-Efficiency Premium Puzzle

    Jeroen Derwall;Jeroen Derwall;Rob Bauer;Nadja Guenster;Nadja Guenster;Kees C. G. Koedijk

  • Giving behavior of millionaires

    P.M.A. Smeets;R.M.M.J. Bauer;U. Gneezy

  • Pension Fund Asset Allocation and Liability Discount Rates: Camouflage and Reckless Risk Taking by U.S. Public Plans?

    R.M.M.J. Bauer;A. Andonov;M. Cremers

Frequent Co-Authors

Piet Eichholtz
Piet Eichholtz Maastricht University
Martijn Cremers
Martijn Cremers University of Notre Dame
Gordon L. Clark
Gordon L. Clark University of Oxford
Kees C. G. Koedijk
Kees C. G. Koedijk Utrecht University
Dariusz Wójcik
Dariusz Wójcik University of Oxford
John M. Quigley
John M. Quigley University of California, Berkeley
Uri Gneezy
Uri Gneezy University of California, San Diego

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