Ben Scholten
Biographic Data
| ID | 1200252 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ben Scholten |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ben |
| FAMILY NAME | Scholten |
| SIGNATURE | BEN SCHOLTEN |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Groningen |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5774-5191 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 133 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The Zelensky moment: Investments in the defense industry and geopolitical risk awareness of European investors
Why do investors in Europe respond differently to similar geopolitical events? While prior research shows that geopolitical risk affects asset allocation, little is known about how awareness of geopolitical risks varies across countries and investor types. We examine this question by analyzing European investors’ reactions to rising tensions in Ukraine following Volodymyr Zelensky’s election in 2019, using detailed data from the European Central …
What are Sub-National Island Jurisdictions
There is no consensus about the definition and classification of Sub-National Island Jurisdictions (SNIJs). This may conflate academic and policy analysis and misguide policies to advance development. We review existing definitions and classifications of SNIJs and systematically analyze the criteria used in different studies. Our study finds several inconsistencies in existing lists of entities labelled as SNIJs. This shows it may be helpful to a…
Improving biodiversity resilience requires both public and private finance: A life-cycle analysis of biodiversity finance
Catalyzing the transformation to sustainable finance
Rebalancing climate finance: Analysing multilateral development banks' allocation practices
This paper provides novel evidence on the climate financing practices of Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) and their long-term social and climate consequences. We find that the majority of MDB climate finance is for mitigation projects, concentrated in a few relatively wealthy countries, and positively correlates with countries' greenhouse gas emissions but not with their vulnerability to climate risks. A transition towards a more equal alloc…
The finance perspective on fossil fuel divestment
This paper reviews the fossil fuel divestment literature. It argues that the origin of climate change is in the ‘carbon shield’, meaning that fossil fuel firms are not held sufficiently responsible for their externalities. By divesting from these firms, investors do not want to be complicit. The literature differentiates three dimensions in the fossil fuel divestment debate: Justification, Impact, and Agent. The first discusses the justification …
Unlocking the unsustainable rice-wheat system of Indian Punjab: Assessing alternatives to crop-residue burning from a systems perspective
Shocks, stocks and ratings: The financial community response to global environmental and health controversies
The financial community suggests it increasingly accounts for the environmental and social performance of the companies it invests in. To investigate this claim, we study how stock market participants and credit rating agencies respond to environmental and health controversies with internationally operating companies. Stock returns and rating changes are the most prominent financial signals regarding the appreciation of news by the financial comm…
An Efficiency Perspective on Carbon Emissions and Financial Performance
The power of friends and neighbors: A review of community energy research
Finance and the Earth system – Exploring the links between financial actors and non-linear changes in the climate system
Fossil Fuel Divestment and Portfolio Performance
Firm Type, Feed‐in Tariff, and Wind Energy Investment in Germany: An Investigation of Decision Making Factors of Energy Producers Regarding Investing in Wind Energy Capacity
The development of renewable and sustainable energy is advanced by public financial support. This is particularly so in the German Energiewende , which seeks to replace nuclear and fossil electricity generation with wind, sun, and biomass. We study the impact of the (changes in the) feed‐in tariff (FIT) policy on the investment in wind electricity generation capacity in Germany in the period 2000–2014. We estimate a generic investment model that …
Challenging obduracy: How local communities transform the energy system
Environmental and Financial Performance of Fossil Fuel Firms: A Closer Inspection of their Interaction
Subsurface activities and decision support systems
Is the journal Ecological Economics really in itself a poor and misleading guide to what ecological economics is about? A reply to “Influencing the perception of what and who is important in ecologica…
The curse of the haven: The impact of multinational enterprise on environmental regulation
Environmental and ecological economics in the 21st century: An age adjusted citation analysis of the influential articles, journals, authors and institutions
Linking responsible investments to societal influence: Motives, assessments and risks
This introduction of the special issue about responsible investments deals with the main theoretical, methodological and empirical challenges. It also highlights the key features of the papers in this special issue. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment
Assessing SRI fund performance research: Best practices in empirical analysis
We review the socially responsible investment (SRI) mutual fund performance literature to provide best practices in SRI performance attribution analysis. Based on meta‐ethnography and content analysis, five themes in this literature require specific attention: data quality, social responsibility verification, survivorship bias, benchmarking, and sensitivity and robustness checks. For each of these themes, we develop best practices. Specifically, …
Environmental regulation and MNEs location: Does CSR matter
Stakeholder relations and financial performance
We analyze how shareholder performance can be associated with stakeholder relations. As such, we try to find out whether there is an association between financial performance and stakeholder relations with respect to different theoretical notions about the firm. Financial performance is operationalized as the financial return of a firm's shares. For stakeholder relations, we look into community involvement, corporate governance, employee relation…
Sustainable development and socially responsible finance and investing
Banking on the Equator. Are Banks that Adopted the Equator Principles Different from Non-Adopters
Challenging obduracy: How local communities transform the energy system
Finance and the Earth system – Exploring the links between financial actors and non-linear changes in the climate system
Fossil Fuel Divestment and Portfolio Performance
An Efficiency Perspective on Carbon Emissions and Financial Performance
Banking on the Equator. Are Banks that Adopted the Equator Principles Different from Non-Adopters
Assessing SRI fund performance research: Best practices in empirical analysis
We review the socially responsible investment (SRI) mutual fund performance literature to provide best practices in SRI performance attribution analysis. Based on meta‐ethnography and content analysis, five themes in this literature require specific attention: data quality, social responsibility verification, survivorship bias, benchmarking, and sensitivity and robustness checks. For each of these themes, we develop best practices. Specifically, …
Linking responsible investments to societal influence: Motives, assessments and risks
This introduction of the special issue about responsible investments deals with the main theoretical, methodological and empirical challenges. It also highlights the key features of the papers in this special issue. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment
Stakeholder relations and financial performance
We analyze how shareholder performance can be associated with stakeholder relations. As such, we try to find out whether there is an association between financial performance and stakeholder relations with respect to different theoretical notions about the firm. Financial performance is operationalized as the financial return of a firm's shares. For stakeholder relations, we look into community involvement, corporate governance, employee relation…
Unlocking the unsustainable rice-wheat system of Indian Punjab: Assessing alternatives to crop-residue burning from a systems perspective
Environmental and Financial Performance of Fossil Fuel Firms: A Closer Inspection of their Interaction
Rebalancing climate finance: Analysing multilateral development banks' allocation practices
This paper provides novel evidence on the climate financing practices of Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) and their long-term social and climate consequences. We find that the majority of MDB climate finance is for mitigation projects, concentrated in a few relatively wealthy countries, and positively correlates with countries' greenhouse gas emissions but not with their vulnerability to climate risks. A transition towards a more equal alloc…
The finance perspective on fossil fuel divestment
This paper reviews the fossil fuel divestment literature. It argues that the origin of climate change is in the ‘carbon shield’, meaning that fossil fuel firms are not held sufficiently responsible for their externalities. By divesting from these firms, investors do not want to be complicit. The literature differentiates three dimensions in the fossil fuel divestment debate: Justification, Impact, and Agent. The first discusses the justification …
What drives socially responsible investment? The case of the Netherlands
This paper asks what determines the growth of socially responsible savings and investments in the Netherlands. We find that special tax regulation can be held responsible for more than half of the growth in socially responsible savings and investments during the period 1995–2001. It has resulted in socially and environmentally worthwhile projects that would otherwise not have had access to finance. Furthermore, it appears that investors in the Ne…
Subsurface activities and decision support systems
Sustainable development and socially responsible finance and investing
The Effect of Polymers on Electrolyte Transport Across Interfaces
International Banks and the Environment, from Growth to Sustainability: An Unfinished Agenda . Raymond F. Mikesell , Lawrence F. Williams
Analytical Issues in External Financing Alternatives for SBEs
Borrowing green: Economic and environmental effects of green fiscal policy in The Netherlands
What drives socially responsible investment? The case of the Netherlands
This paper asks what determines the growth of socially responsible savings and investments in the Netherlands. We find that special tax regulation can be held responsible for more than half of the growth in socially responsible savings and investments during the period 1995–2001. It has resulted in socially and environmentally worthwhile projects that would otherwise not have had access to finance. Furthermore, it appears that investors in the Ne…
Banking on the Equator. Are Banks that Adopted the Equator Principles Different from Non-Adopters
Joint Default Probabilities and Sovereign Risk
The assessment of sovereign risk is of crucial importance for international lenders and investors. Many existing sovereign risk approaches are opaque and heavily rely on subjective choices. In general, they lack a theoretical basis. To assess sovereign risk, we use the Merton model in which a loan defaults if the value of a firm's assets falls below the value of its debt. In a portfolio context, this implies that default correlations warrant the …
Environmental regulation and MNEs location: Does CSR matter
Stakeholder relations and financial performance
We analyze how shareholder performance can be associated with stakeholder relations. As such, we try to find out whether there is an association between financial performance and stakeholder relations with respect to different theoretical notions about the firm. Financial performance is operationalized as the financial return of a firm's shares. For stakeholder relations, we look into community involvement, corporate governance, employee relation…
Sustainable development and socially responsible finance and investing
Linking responsible investments to societal influence: Motives, assessments and risks
This introduction of the special issue about responsible investments deals with the main theoretical, methodological and empirical challenges. It also highlights the key features of the papers in this special issue. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment
Assessing SRI fund performance research: Best practices in empirical analysis
We review the socially responsible investment (SRI) mutual fund performance literature to provide best practices in SRI performance attribution analysis. Based on meta‐ethnography and content analysis, five themes in this literature require specific attention: data quality, social responsibility verification, survivorship bias, benchmarking, and sensitivity and robustness checks. For each of these themes, we develop best practices. Specifically, …
The curse of the haven: The impact of multinational enterprise on environmental regulation
Environmental and ecological economics in the 21st century: An age adjusted citation analysis of the influential articles, journals, authors and institutions
Is the journal Ecological Economics really in itself a poor and misleading guide to what ecological economics is about? A reply to “Influencing the perception of what and who is important in ecologica…
Challenging obduracy: How local communities transform the energy system
Environmental and Financial Performance of Fossil Fuel Firms: A Closer Inspection of their Interaction
Subsurface activities and decision support systems
Firm Type, Feed‐in Tariff, and Wind Energy Investment in Germany: An Investigation of Decision Making Factors of Energy Producers Regarding Investing in Wind Energy Capacity
The development of renewable and sustainable energy is advanced by public financial support. This is particularly so in the German Energiewende , which seeks to replace nuclear and fossil electricity generation with wind, sun, and biomass. We study the impact of the (changes in the) feed‐in tariff (FIT) policy on the investment in wind electricity generation capacity in Germany in the period 2000–2014. We estimate a generic investment model that …
Finance and the Earth system – Exploring the links between financial actors and non-linear changes in the climate system
Fossil Fuel Divestment and Portfolio Performance
The power of friends and neighbors: A review of community energy research
An Efficiency Perspective on Carbon Emissions and Financial Performance
Shocks, stocks and ratings: The financial community response to global environmental and health controversies
The financial community suggests it increasingly accounts for the environmental and social performance of the companies it invests in. To investigate this claim, we study how stock market participants and credit rating agencies respond to environmental and health controversies with internationally operating companies. Stock returns and rating changes are the most prominent financial signals regarding the appreciation of news by the financial comm…
Unlocking the unsustainable rice-wheat system of Indian Punjab: Assessing alternatives to crop-residue burning from a systems perspective
Economics (25 works) · Business (22 works) · Finance (13 works) · Political science (12 works) · Ecology (11 works) · Natural resource economics (11 works) · Energy, Environment, Economic Growth (9 works) · Climate Change Policy and Economics (8 works) · Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works)