GREEN INVESTMENT THROUGH GREEN BONDS

Green Investors and Corporate Investment

Green investing, or socially responsible investing (SRI), which refers to making investment decisions according to both financial and ethical criteria, has become increasingly popular in recent years. This paper explores the effects of ethical screening on the investment decisions of firms that fail the screen (’polluting’ firms) and on their decisions to reform so as to pass the screen. The pa...

Green Investment Funds: Organic Farming

Environmental Concerns, Environmental Policy and Green Investment

Environmental regulators often use environmental policy to induce green investment by firms. However, if an environmental policy fails to exert a long-run effect on regulating the economic agents' behavior, it may be more reasonable to think of the firm as the leader in the game, since the investment in green technology is usually a strategic decision. In this paper, we consider a three-stage S...

A Crowdfunding Model for Green Energy Investment

This paper studies a new renewable energy investment model through crowdfunding, which is motivated by emerging community solar farms. In this paper we develop a sequential game theory model to capture the interactions among crowdfunders, the solar farm owner, and an electricity company who purchases renewable energy generated by the solar farm in a multi-period framework. By characterizing a u...

Energy Analysis of Services through Green Metrics: Towards Green Certificates

Energy-awareness in services can be obtained through annotations regarding energy consumption. In this paper, annotations are given as Green Performance Indicators (GPIs). A service is annotated in terms of its structure, of the used IT platform, and of development costs, human resources, and environment impact. GPIs relate to service development, deployment, and maintenance. An approach is pro...