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Sönnerhed, Alexander, and Sebastian Berg. "Green Bonds vs Conventional Bonds : Market efficiency test on green bond funds vs conventional bond funds when faced with external shocks causing stress." Thesis, Jönköping University, IHH, Företagsekonomi, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-52622.
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This thesis investigates the effects of environmental and economic disasters on green bond funds and conventional bond funds during the years 2016-2020. The research emphasizes how a saver could act when comparing green bond funds and conventional bond funds for investing purposes. Based on previous research, there are indications that green bonds and conventional bonds differ in pricing despite having the same economic quality. This research investigates bond funds rather than singular bonds. The tests in this study are quantitative based on hypothetico-deductive approach. Based on hypothesis testing through the Mann-Whitney-U test, green bond funds and conventional bond funds act similarly during events of stress, and there is no statistically significant evidence which proves that investing solely in either of the two groups is better than the other. In accordance to the Efficient Market Hypothesis, this thesis suggests that the bond funds act similarly because in essence they are the same financial instrument and act according to their ratings and qualities. From a saver’s perspective, it is therefore better to look at the quality and rating of a fund rather than what category of fund it is.
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Lillieroth, Helena, and Sofia Lillieroth. "Accelerating Green Bond Market Growth : The role of the EU Taxonomy and the EU Green Bond Standard." Thesis, KTH, Industriell ekonomi och organisation (Inst.), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-297239.
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The interest for green investments has risen rapidly in the past years and with it, the green bond market. In line with the EU’s new Green Deal for a sustainable future, a Taxonomy of sustainable activities has been released along with a complementary green bond framework, the EU Green bond standard (EU GBS). Within the literature, there is a consensus that the green bond market has not yet reached its full potential and a number of obstacles for market growth have been identified. The new EU GBS is predicted to have an impact on the market, but it is not clear what it will look like, what role it will take on the market, and if it has the prerequisites to become the new market praxis framework. As the EU GBS will have an impact on the market, it could also have an impact on the obstacles for market growth. It is also at this stage uncertain if the EU GBS will contribute with new obstacles. Findings show that the EU GBS does have the prerequisites to become the standard framework on the market. It has advantages in being closely linked to the mandatory Taxonomy as well as a credible organization behind it. However, there are many other options, and it may be difficult for some issuers to issue an EU GBS as the criteria is set high. The EU GBS could help overcome some of the obstacles, but could also make some worse. It could open some doors, such as new sectors for green bonds and a common standard among European countries which could simplify the process. However, the uncertainty around it, the highly set thresholds and the do no significant harm criteria could decrease its growth. There are also issues around possible sub optimization and its credibility due to the notable presence of politics in the decision-making process.Intresset för gröna investeringar har snabbt ökat de senaste åren och således även intresset för gröna obligationer. I linje med EU:s nya Green Deal för en hållbar framtid har en taxonomi för hållbara aktiviteter släppts tillsammans med en kompletterande ramverk för gröna obligationer, EU Green bond standard (EU GBS). Inom litteraturen råder det enighet om att den gröna obligationsmarknaden ännu inte har nått sin fulla potential och ett antal hinder för marknadstillväxt har identifierats. Det nya EU GBS förutspås ha en inverkan på marknaden, men det är inte klart hur den kommer att se ut, vilken roll EU GBS kommer att ta och om ramverket har förutsättningar för att bli marknadspraxis. Eftersom EU GBS kommer att påverka marknaden kan det också komma att påverka hindren för marknadstillväxt. Det är också i detta skede osäkert om EU GBS kommer att bidra med nya hinder. Resultaten visar att EU GBS har förutsättningar att bli marknadspraxis. En av dess fördelar är sin nära koppling till den obligatoriska taxonomin såväl som en trovärdig organisation som står bakom. Det finns dock många andra alternativ och det kan vara svårt för vissa emittenter att utfärda ett EU GBS eftersom kriterierna är höga. EU GBS kan hjälpa till att övervinna några av hindren, men kan också arbeta emot dem. Ramverket kan öppna vissa dörrar, till exempel för nya sektorer för gröna obligationer och en gemensam standard för europeiska länder som kan förenkla processen. Osäkerheterna kring ramverket, de högt ställda tröskelvärdena samt ”do no significant harm”-kriterierna skulle dock kunna minska tillväxten av den gröna obligationsmarknaden. Det finns också frågor kring möjlig suboptimering och Taxonomins trovärdighet på grund av den politiska inblandningen i beslutsprocessen.
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Shi, Ying, and Kristine Jurevica. "The Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the European Green Bond Market." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Företagsekonomiska institutionen, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-448481.
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This thesis examined the effect of non-financial motives, namely pro-environmental or sustainability preference, in bond pricing on the European secondary market before and during the COVID-19 crisis over the period 02.01.2019-26.02.2021. To estimate the potential yield spread between green bonds and matched conventional bonds, we applied a stringent matching method and fixed-effect regression to explore the green bond premium. The result indicated a small positive premium of 0.46 bps before the COVID-19 (01.2019-02.2020) and a small negative premium of 0.2 bps during the ongoing COVID-19 crisis (03.2020-02.2021), and the premiums have significantly changed between the two study periods, implying that the COVID-19 had a significant effect on the GB premium. Thus, before the pandemic, investors demanded compensation in the form of a higher yield return on investing in green bonds; however, during the pandemic, investors are willing to accept a lower yield on the GBs in comparison to the equivalent CB to finance environmentally-friendly projects. Additionally, the paper investigated bond volatility by analyzing the standard deviation of the daily yield. Although green bonds tended to have a higher volatility, no robust conclusion could be drawn due to a lack of statistical significance.
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Söderström, Gustaf, and Anton Pettersson. "What does it cost to be green? : An empirical investigation of the European green bond market." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Företagsekonomiska institutionen, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-414387.
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The green bond market offers investors the opportunity to take an explicit focus on sustainable investment projects. However, it is yet to be determined whether this novel asset class offers attractive yields compared to non-green bonds. To address this question, we study European green bonds and how they diverge from conventional bonds in terms of yields. Using a dataset of 88 matched pairs of European green bonds between 2015 and 2019, we document a significant negative green bond premium of -12 bps on average in the secondary market. The green bond premium is defined as the yield differential between a green and a conventional bond while controlling for liquidity. The results suggest that European investors accept a lower financial return in exchange for receiving non-pecuniary benefits and thus challenging the assumptions of classical asset pricing models. Furthermore, we use a matching method and two-step regression to control for liquidity and identify the determinants of the green bond premium. The results show that the negative green bond premium is less pronounced for lower-rated bonds. Moreover, we find support for variations in the green bond premium across different business sectors. Government-related green bonds experience a greater negative green bond premium than green bonds related to financials and industrial corporates.
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Freytag, Julia. "Challenges for Green Finance in India : An Analysis of Deficiencies in India’s Green Financial Market." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Företagsekonomi, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-180908.
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Context:Over the years, India has evolved as a leading powerhouse of economic growthbut belongs to the nations that are most significantly affected by anthropogenicenviron-mental changes. As part of the Paris Agreement, India has formulated a national climate agenda, but a large gapprevalentin the green financialmarket as well as other deficien-cies in the general bondmarket and the underlying infrastructure restrain the country from attaining those goals. Purpose:Earlier scholarly works, and green bond reports, in particular, have foreground the number of green bond issuances in India but do not take a critical look at the stagnat-ing development of the market and have not scrutinised the market and its actors in the context of scientific frames of reference yet. Thus, this thesis aims to identify the chal-lenges India faces in scaling the green financial market up while taking the demands and potential contributions of stakeholder groups into consideration. Methodology:This thesis is grounded in the author’s assumptions of interpretivism and subjectivity. Following these initial considerations, an inductive approach was followed, and a qualitative study was conducted, mainly based on a literature review in areas like sustainable finance,green financialmarkets and theirparticipantsas well asgreen debt securities and the associated issuers, investors, costsandverificationmethodsin India. Findings:The main challenges India faces in developing the green financial market fur-ther are the missing transparency provoked by the fragmentary green bond regulation as to disclosure and verification requirements as well as illiquidity caused by a small number of and little environmental awareness among investors. The market relies heavily on the banking sector and green investment projects are slanted towards renewable energy and energy efficiency projects. Moreover, green debt securities lack clear pricing advantages compared to conventional bonds but bear risks for greenwashing activities. Research Limitations:This thesis was not able to bridge the research gap on challenges for scaling India’s sustainable financial market up. The examination was further initiated by the author’s experiences with the topicand is based on an interpretive approach, thus, argumentations and findingsmight be value-laden. The small sample size of interviews taken and the limited information on greenwashing within financial activities might have not deliveredfull insightsinto the research topic
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Karimi, Niousha, and Isac Lago. "Green Bond’s co-movement with the treasury bond, corporate bond, stock, and carbon markets during an economic recession." Thesis, Jönköping University, IHH, Företagsekonomi, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-52683.
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Background: With the tremendous growth of the Green Bond (GB) market, understanding the relationship of the GB market with other financial markets gains importance. The Covid19 pandemic causing a recession in most major economies creates an opportunity to see the co-movements of the GB market with other financial markets under a period of economic crisis. Purpose: This study aims to use the economic contraction catalyzed by the 2020’s Covid-19 pandemic as a means to investigate the co-movements between the GB and the treasury bond, corporate bond, stock, and carbon markets during an economic recession. Through this, we intend to find if co-movements of the GB market have changed, and if so, how. Method: As the collected data is time-series data, Augmented Dickey-Fuller and Ljung-Box tests are utilized for preliminary testing. Thereafter, a univariate-GARCH model is used for volatility modeling. Moreover, the DCC-GARCH model has been conducted to determine the co-movements between the markets. Conclusion: The results of the study show that in the case of GB, treasury, and corporate bond markets, no considerable changes were observed in the co-movement among the two different sample periods. Moving to the stock and GB markets, it was found that the co-movement increased at the beginning of the crisis. However, for the whole crisis period, no substantial changes can be seen in comparison to the pre-crisis period. Furthermore, the co-movement between the two markets was found to be weak in general. Moving on to the results obtained for GB and carbon markets, at the start of the crisis, a sharp fall can be observed. When compared to the pre-crisis period, the co-movement showed a slight increase, yet very weak. Furthermore, it was observed that the co-movement between the two markets has been weak during the whole sample period.
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Alldén, Pontus, and Dev Joshi. "Building a Green Living : Measuring the green bond premium on the Swedish real estate market." Thesis, Jönköping University, Internationella Handelshögskolan, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-54790.
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Background: With the first green bond being issued in 2008 as a joint venture between World Bank Organization and the Swedish bank SEB the financial instrument has made an impact on the financial markets. With a high demand for sustainable investments in Sweden partly due to policies a premium for the green bonds is to be expected at least according to theory. The real estate market has adapted to the increased demand for green investments by moving more towards green bonds, and rightfully so as it is one of the largest polluters seen by sector. In result, it is also one of the largest issuers of bonds which creates an excellent opportunity to research the industry as there is plenty of data available. Purpose: This report will examine the premium of green bonds in the Swedish real estate market. Furthermore, it will also examine the effects of Covid-19 and to what extent this pandemic had an impact on green bonds. Method: The thesis examines the Option Adjusted Spread (OAS) of 166 bonds of 9 different companies from the start of 2016 to December 2020 within the Swedish real estate market. Control variables such as Company risk, Market risk and Macroeconomic variables were used in an OLS regression to estimate the premium. The effect of the Covid-19 pandemic was also examined. Conclusion: After analyzing 53 green and 113 conventional bonds no significant results were found on how premium differs between green and conventional bonds. However more general findings were found that suggest bonds become more sought during the Covid-19. It was further found that the green bond market is rapidly growing and may in a few years be in a better position to be examined.
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Andersson-Junkka, Emil, and Felix Malmström. "Green Is The New Black - A qualitative study on the motives and future of the Nordic green bond market from an underwriter perspective." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Företagsekonomi, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-187080.
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This research analyzes the motives and future of the Nordic green bond market from an underwriter perspective. Threefold motives for being active in the Nordic green bond market are found. There are monetary gains, corporate social responsibility, and an opportunity to receive and maintain legitimacy. Several important factors for the future of the Nordic green bond market are identified. The EU Taxonomy will have a major impact on this market, and is the most important factor for the future of it. Further, sustainability-linked bonds enable the transition of various sectors towards sustainability and are an important factor for the development of the Nordic bond market in general. Experts that possess roles within green bond underwriting and green bond investing have been interviewed. Stakeholder theory, corporate social responsibility and legitimacy theory have been implemented in this research with the aim of analyzing the motives and future of the Nordic green bond market. By doing that, this research contributes to a broader theoretical discussion in the area of sustainable finance.
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Nanayakkara, Madurika. "Green bonds : Do they bring sustainability to environmentally friendly projects?" Thesis, Federation University Australia, 2018. http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/169217.
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This study was motivated by the urgent requirement to scale up the global green bond (GB) market to meet the trillion-dollar financial requirement of environmental resilience projects worldwide, and by the absence of prior scientific investigations to determine solutions to the GB market’s problems from different perspectives. Three empirical studies were conducted to provide a holistic view of the GB market. The first study investigated the perception gaps of different stakeholders in the GB market in terms of assessing the ‘greenness’ of projects funded through GBs, investors’ expectations of GB investments, and the factors hindering the growth of the GB market. A qualitative method was employed with document review, followed by interviews, a questionnaire survey and peer debriefing. The study found that both the demand and supply sides of the GB market are inadequate to meet the world’s green investment requirements. The main obstacles hindering the market growth are fear for greenwashing, definitions that lack clarity, the absence of large-scale issues, and the high costs associated with complex reporting processes and third-party certifications. The second study assessed the influence of GB principles on investor demand for GBs, using global GBs issued for the period 2007 to 2016. Bid–ask spread and yield spread were used to measure the investor demand. The results indicated a significant positive relationship between the degree of compliance and investor demand. The third study compared the credit spreads of corporate GBs and conventional bonds, measured by option-adjusted spread daily data for the period 2016 to 2017 worldwide. Hybrid method of panel data regression was employed to analyse the data, and found that GBs are traded at a premium in the world market, compared with conventional bonds. This thesis suggests several policy implications based on the findings of these studies to scale up the GB market as a new source of financing.Doctor of Philosophy
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Persson, Michaela. "Building Trust on the Green Bond Market : A Qualitative Study Examining the Investors' Perspective." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för industriell teknik och management (ITM), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-297853.
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The green bond market has grown rapidly in the past years but still only stands for 1 percent of the total bond market. More issuers need to issue green bonds for the green bond market to grow, and investors need to invest in new issuers. A weakness of the green bond market is that there is no universal definition of sustainability. This thesis investigates the green bond market from investors’ perspectives, focusing on the role of trust in the green bond market. The thesis is qualitative research containing eight interviews with people on pension funds, asset management firms, an insurance company, and a fixed-income institute. The interviews were supplemented with a short questionary. The main findings are that trust has a vital role in the green bond market. Trust between investors and issuers can be strengthened through increased transparency from the issuer. Issuers’ general sustainability work is essential for investors when investing in green bonds. The research identified that the green bond market growth would benefit if a third-party actor would vouch for the company’s sustainability work. A recommendation to facilitate market growth is to establish a voluntary standardized sustainability rating with clear financial incentives for the issuer. It would enhance issuers’ sustainability awareness and increase transparency for the investors as the rating would be on the issuers’ initiative.Den gröna obligationsmarknaden har vuxit kraftigt de senaste åren men står endast för 1 procent av den totala obligationsmarknaden. För att marknaden ska växa behöver fler emittenter utfärda gröna obligationer samtidigt som investerare behöver investera i nya emittenter. En svaghet för den gröna obligationsmarknaden är att det saknas en universell definition av hållbarhet. Detta arbete undersöker den gröna obligationsmarknaden från en investerares perspektiv med fokus på tillitens betydelse på marknaden. Arbetet är en kvalitativ studie som baseras på åtta intervjuer med personer inom pensionsbolag, kapitalförvaltning, försäkringsbolag och ett ränteinstitut. Intervjuerna kompletterades med en kort enkät. De viktigaste resultaten visar på att tillit har en betydande roll på den gröna obligationsmarknaden. Tillit mellan investerare och emittenter kan stärkas genom ökad transparens från emittentens sida. Resultat visar även på att emittentens generella hållbarhetsarbete är viktigt för investerare när de investerar i en grön obligation. Det identifieras att den gröna obligationsmarknaden skulle kunna dra fördel av om det existerar en tredjepartsaktör som kan bekräfta en emittents hållbarhetsarbete. Ett förslag som eventuellt skulle kunna leda till marknadstillväxt är att införa ett standardiserat hållbarhetsbetyg kopplat till tydliga finansiella incitament för både emittenten och investeraren. Detta skulle öka transparensen för investerare samt kunna förbättra emittentens medvetenhet gällande hållbarhet eftersom bedömningen skulle göras på emittentens initiativ.
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Ingelgård, Mathilda, and Louise Regnell. "Green is the New Black : A study of investor reliance in green bond investments in the Swedish real estate market." Thesis, KTH, Fastigheter och byggande, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-231431.
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After the environmental debate was put firmly into economics literature, an emerging sustainable finance sector attempts to discipline corporate social and environmental behaviour, in which the financial markets and the real estate sector have been stated to play particularly important roles. Research within Swedish real estate financing has identified a growing interest of sustainable financing, mentioning green bonds in particular. Green bonds are based on traditional corporate bonds with the difference that green bonds possess an element of influence. The issuer is obliged to report back to the investor how net proceeds from the issuance have been used to finance green projects, which creates a requirement for transparency. The fact that green bonds is a fairly new financing and investment alternative whilst simultaneously growing incredibly fast has highlighted the significance of reliance for green bonds as a financial product. The aim of this study has been to explore in what ways green bonds in the Swedish real estate market are being initiated and structured and subsequently governed to establish investor reliance. This research is conducted with a qualitative methodology on the basis of an exploratory nature, and the collection of qualitative data has mainly been performed through semi-structured interviews with all categories of stakeholders currently involved in the use of green bonds in the Swedish real estate market. The empirical results and subsequent analysis have concluded that it is obvious that there are numerous positive incentives related to issuing green bonds. All positive incentives consequently give rise to concerns regarding the true purpose of the issuances and whether or not these are aligned with the original purpose of the product. The more positive incentives, the more the risk of greenwashing increases. The risk of greenwashing could pose a significant threat to the general perception of and reliance in the green bond market. Obviously, all positive incentives do not necessarily entail greenwashing; there has to be positive incentives for the market of green bonds to occur, especially as it is a widely appreciated product with a generally good purpose. However, the issuers must be transparent, and the investors must be aware of the potential risk factors in order to establish investor reliance in green bonds as a financial product.Sedan miljödebatten introducerades inom den ekonomiska litteraturen har en framväxande sektor för hållbar finansiering arbetat för att disciplinera företags sociala och miljömässiga ansvarstagande, där den finansiella marknaden och fastighetssektorn uppgetts ha särskilt viktiga roller. Forskning inom svensk fastighetsfinansiering har identifierat ett växande intresse för hållbar finansiering och i synnerhet gröna obligationer. Gröna obligationer är baserade på traditionella företagsobligationer, med skillnaden att kapitalet enbart syftar att användas till finansiering eller återfinansiering av hållbara projekt. Emittenten är bunden till att återrapportera hur kapitalet använts, vilket skapar ett krav på transparens. Det faktum att gröna obligationer fortfarande är ett ganska nytt finansierings- och investeringsalternativ, samtidigt som det vuxit oerhört snabbt, har framhävt betydelsen av förtroende för gröna obligationer som finansiell produkt. Syftet med denna studie har varit att undersöka hur gröna obligationer på den svenska fastighetsmarknaden initieras och struktureras och därefter hanteras för att etablera investerarnas förtroende. Denna forskning har genomförts med en kvalitativ metod av utforskande karaktär och insamlingen av kvalitativa data har i huvudsak utförts genom semistrukturerade intervjuer med alla intressentkategorier som för närvarande är aktiva i användningen av gröna obligationer på den svenska fastighetsmarknaden. Det empiriska resultatet och den efterföljande analysen har påvisat att det är uppenbart att det finns många positiva incitament i samband med emissioner av gröna obligationer. Alla positiva incitament ger följaktligen upphov till oro kring det verkliga syftet med emissionerna och huruvida dessa är anpassade till produktens ursprungliga syfte eller inte. Ju mer positiva incitament, desto mer ökar risken för greenwashing. Risken för greenwashing kan utgöra ett betydande hot mot den allmänna uppfattningen av, och förtroendet för, den gröna obligationsmarknaden. Självklart innebär inte alla positiva incitament nödvändigtvis greenwashing; det måste finnas positiva incitament för att marknaden för gröna obligationer ska finnas, särskilt eftersom det är en mycket uppskattad produkt med ett generellt bra syfte. Emittenterna måste emellertid vara transparenta och investerarna måste vara medvetna om de potentiella riskfaktorerna för att etablera investerarnas förtroende för gröna obligationer som en finansiell produkt.
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Oestreich, Henrik Stefan, and Karimi Nima Marandi. "A study of the dynamics of the Swedish Green Bond Market : From a niched to a mainstream tool for sustainable development." Thesis, KTH, Industriell Management, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-254245.
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The phenomenon of climate change is widely recognized and declared as the single most threatening issue of the 21st century (UN Environment, 2018). In this context, the presented study is aligned with scientific research on the domain of sustainable development and sustainability transitions aiming to counterbalance climate change and its impact on this planet as much as possible. This research focuses on Green Bonds as a financial tool to promote this kind of climate-resilient transition. Professionals from the financial sectors of the Swedish Green Bond market were interviewed, reflecting current opinions and strategies of one of the most developed and progressive nations in the world. The goal is to understand the dynamics behind the development of the Green Bond market using the Multi-Level Perspective framework and to find out to what extent these experts view Green Bonds as a tool in the process of sustainability transitions. The findings firstly point out the role of the different actors of the Green Bond market, describing the interactions between investors, issuers banks, politics and advisors. In addition, the results show that the opinions on drivers and barriers amongst the interviewees and between the interviewees and literature differ somewhat. In particular, greenwashing, lacking transparency and missing standardization are seen by some of the different interviewed stakeholders to be less barriers but rather as opportunities. In conclusion, this study points out the particular influence that politics, as representant of the strongly environmentally aware people of Sweden, occupy in steering the market’s development and describes its importance as regulatory drivers of Green Bonds as a tool for sustainability transitions and sustainable development.Mänskligheten står inför en global utmaning; att kollektivt bekämpa den mänskligt orsakade klimatförändringen (UN Environment, 2018). Det är från detta sammanhang som denna studie ursprungar, där teorier inom vetenskaplig forskning för området hållbarhetsutveckling och hållbarhet förändringar används för att bekämpa klimatförändringens inverkan. Denna forskning fokuserar särskilt på gröna obligationens roll för en hållbar klimatrelaterad utveckling i det svenska samhället. För att utvärdera den svenska marknaden för gröna obligationer intervjuades experter inom området utvalda på basis av post och sektor. Målet med en kvalitativ forskningsmetod är att förstå de bakomliggande faktorerna för den progressiva utvecklingen i Sverige. Detta görs ytterligare genom ”The Multi-Level Perspective framework” för att kontextualisera experternas insyn på hur gröna obligationer kan användas som verktyg för hållbarhetsutveckling. Kartläggningen användes för att beskriva dynamiken mellan obligations utfärdaren, investerare, banker samt rådgivare i Sverige. Intervjuerna visade på nyanser inom dagens teori och praktik avseende hur man utvärderar tillväxten på den gröna obligationsmarknaden och framförallt gällande integritet faktorer som standardisering och transparens. Ett bristande ramverk kan ses som en möjlighet för tillväxt istället för ett hinder. Sammanfattningsvis understryker undersökningen politikernas inflytande för att kunna omvandla gröna obligationer från en nisch till en standardprodukt i samhället. Detta påvisar effektiviteten inom den svenska gröna obligationsmarknaden, där hög grad av miljömedvetenhet hos befolkningen blivit representerad i politiken.
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Liepins, Emils, and Oubari Abdulrahman. "Green Bond Influence on Cumulative Abnormal Return in The Swedish Stock Market : A Study of Publicly Listed Swedish Construction and RealEstate Companies." Thesis, Internationella Handelshögskolan, Jönköping University, IHH, Företagsekonomi, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-48663.
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Addressing environmental issues has been a top priority in recent years all over the world. There are several options on how to address this problem also from a financial perspective. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate how green bond issuance announcement impacts publicly traded stock prices through cumulative abnormal return (CAR) perspective. We focused our scope only to the Swedish market. Theory is based on three different models: the capital asset pricing model (CAPM), the market model, and the market return model, which all have been applied also in previous studies. Several previous studies indicate that there is a positive CAR around the bond announcement date. In our case findings based on all three models were, that there in fact is evidence of CAR in the Swedish market at different event windows. The strongest relationships were found in event windows five days before the event date and up to twenty days post-event date. These results could be an indicator, that investors are valuating green bonds positively, and therefore for companies it might be beneficial to engage in more environmentally friendly project financing.
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Fransman, Madeleine, and Beatrice Häll. "Green bonds - market barriers and investor motives." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Företagsekonomiska institutionen, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-358227.
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This study addresses the green bond market, a young and upcoming market that has received increasing attention in recent years. Academic literature in the field is limited, therefore theaim of this study is to identify investors’ main barriers and motives behind green bondinvestments. In order to examine Swedish fund companies’ requirements to invest in greenbonds, questionnaire responses were linked to interviews. The overall result shows the importance of financial incentives in investment decisions. In terms of market barriers, the low return of green bonds was the main reason that investments were restrained. It has been stated that green bonds are issued at a premium due to an additional reporting related administrative cost for the issuers. Another defined limit was the concern for issuers not fulfilling their 'green' obligation. The main motive behind green bond investments was to invest in a sustainable environment followed by the possibility to gain a combined financial and environmental return. In addition to the financial attributes, investors find a utility function in the green bonds that account for the premium price that these investors seem to accept. Furthermore, social norms are shown to influence the investment decision to a lesser extent.
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Sun, Chen, and Febi Caesara Wulandari. "Liquidity Risk and Yield Spreads of Green Bonds : Evidence from International Green Bonds Market." Thesis, Högskolan i Jönköping, Internationella Handelshögskolan, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-35819.
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Our thesis aims to help the market participants to understand the source of the risk in green bonds market. We estimate the liquidity risk effects in green bonds' yield spreads as well as controlling for credit risk, bond-specific chracteristics and macroeconomic variables. Both of our liquidity measures suggest that green bonds are more liquid than investment grade US corporate bonds. We find that liquidity effect in green bonds' yield spreads is pronounced, and the result is robust after controlling for potential endogeneity bias. The power of green bonds' liquidity premium is about 10 to 100 times as strong as speculative grade German bonds and investment grade US corporate bonds respectively. In addition to the lack of clear risk profile in green bonds market, our three-stage least squares regression shows that credit risk influences the liquidity risk of green bonds, this indicates that credit risk is a potential source of private information that affects the high liquidity of green bonds. This result has an implication for policy as the credit risk and liquidity risk could be the pitfalls in green bonds market.
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Larsson, Frans. "The Greenium : A study of pricing on the fixed income market." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Nationalekonomiska institutionen, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-377043.
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This thesis studies the yield differential between green bonds and conventional bonds, the so called green premium or "greenium". By deriving a theoretical model that includes investors' preferences for green assets, two hypothesis are formulated: There exists a negative green bond premium and The negative premium is larger in absolute terms in countries with high environmental performance. In order to estimate the premium, synthetic conventional bonds are constructed having the same characteristics as the green bonds. Two different matching methods are used to construct the synthetic bonds, one based on maturity and one based on correlation. The findings of this study suggest a significant negative green premium between -0.29 and -0.78 basis points. Also, the green premium is more than twice as large, in terms of absolute value, if the issuer is based in a country which has a high environmental performance.
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Angolkar, Tejal. "The Effects of Macroeconomic Indicators and Event Shocks on Greek Stock and Bond Market Performance." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2016. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1423.
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This paper focuses on understanding the higher than average punishment to Greek stocks and bonds and the overall investor reactions to the worsening economic situation in Greece from 2000 to 2014. Were Greek stock and bond values driven by fiscal and financial conditions, macroeconomic indicators and event shocks to the economy? Time series regressions, Granger Causality Wald tests and impulse response functions are used to answer the question. The proxies for Greek stock and bond market performance include the Athens Stock Exchange Index growth rate and the short run and long run interest rate spreads between Greece and Germany. The macroeconomic variables include debt to GDP ratio, the National Bank of Greece return on equity growth rate, real GDP growth rate, inflation rate, and M1 and M2 money supply growth rates. The significant events include Greece joining the Euro in 2001, the Greek government admitting to lying about budget deficits in 2004, Greece’s first bailout in 2010 and the resignation of Prime Minister George Papandreou in 2011. Results show that most variables are significant and stock and bond market performance are dependent on macroeconomic indicators and event shocks.
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Blomqvist, Ida, and Anna-Karin Wallinder. "Gröna Obligationer : En studie om investerares motiv till att köpa gröna obligationer." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Handelshögskolan (from 2013), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-78590.
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Background: In 2007, the World Bank issued the first green bond in the world together with SEB. The first green corporate bond was issued by Vasakronan in 2013 and thereafter the market has expanded. Green bonds have the same financial characteristics as traditional bonds, the difference lies in the fact that the bond proceeds from green bonds must finance environmentally or climate friendly projects. The green bonds should give investors and issuers incentives to implement sustainable investments or projects. Aim: The purpose of the thesis is to describe and explain investors' motives and incentives for buying green bonds. Completion: The thesis is based on a qualitative method and eight interviews have been conducted. The interviewed persons represent investors. In order to shed light on the nature of green bonds and the market, a literature study has been designed. Conclusion: Prominent motives and driving forces for all investors are the demand from customers, the opportunity to show a sustainable profile and that green bonds often have the same financial characteristics as traditional bonds.Bakgrund: År 2007 emitterade Världsbanken den första gröna obligationen i världen tillsammans med SEB. Den första gröna företagsobligationen emitterades av Vasakronan år 2013 och därefter har marknaden expanderat. Gröna obligationer har samma finansiella egenskaper som traditionella obligationer, dock ligger skillnaden i att obligationslikviden från gröna obligationer ska finansiera miljö- eller klimatvänliga projekt. De gröna obligationerna ska uppmuntra investerare och emittenter att genomföra hållbara investeringar eller projekt. Syfte: Uppsatsens syfte är att beskriva och förklara investerares motiv och drivkrafter till att köpa gröna obligationer. Genomförande: Uppsatsen baseras på en kvalitativ metod och åtta intervjuer har genomförts. De intervjuade personerna representerar investerare. För att belysa gröna obligationers och marknadens karaktärsdrag har en litteraturstudie utformats. Slutsats: Framträdande motiv och drivkrafter för samtliga investerare är efterfrågan från kunder, möjligheten att visa upp en hållbar profil och att gröna obligationer har ofta samma finansiella egenskaper som traditionella obligationer.
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Johannesson, Maja, and Sofie Stejmar. "Gröna obligationer - Vägen till en mer hållbar kreditmarknad : En studie om aktörers motiv och ekonomiska drivkrafter på den svenska marknaden för gröna obligationer." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Nationalekonomi, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-120196.
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Bakgrund: År 2007 emitterade Världsbanken den första gröna obligationen i världen tillsammans med SEB. Vasakronan emitterade den första gröna företagsobligationen år 2013 och därefter har marknaden expanderat. Gröna obligationer har samma finansiella egenskaper som traditionella obligationer, skillnaden ligger i att obligationslikviden från gröna obligationer ska finansiera miljö- eller klimatvänliga projekt. Gröna obligationer ger investerare och emittenter incitament att implementera hållbara investeringar eller projekt. Syfte: Uppsatsens syfte är att undersöka och analysera motiv och ekonomiska drivkrafter till aktörers deltagande på den svenska marknaden för gröna obligationer. Utöver det ämnar uppsatsen kartlägga de institutionella förutsättningarna för uppkomsten av gröna obligationer, samt belysa utmaningar och framtidsutsikter. Genomförande: Uppsatsen baseras på en kvalitativ metod och 13 intervjuer har genomförts. De intervjuade personerna representerar grupperna: emittenter, investerare, banker och certifieringsinstitut. För att belysa gröna obligationers och marknadens karaktärsdrag har en litteraturstudie utformats. De empiriska materialet har analyserats med institutionell teori, spelteori, finansiell teori och CSR teori, samt tidigare forskning om CSR och SRI. Slutsats: Ett antal institutionella faktorer och enskilda aktörers initiativ har varit bidragande till den svenska gröna obligationsmarknadens uppkomst och utveckling. Framträdande motiv och ekonomiska drivkrafter för samtliga aktörer är möjligheten att visa upp en grön och hållbar profil, det faktum att gröna obligationer har samma finansiella egenskaper som traditionella obligationer och att de har en grön egenskap. Framtida utmaningar för marknadens fortsatta tillväxt är utvecklingen av standarder och att öka utbudet av gröna obligationer.Background: In 2007 the World Bank issued the first green bond in the world in co-operation with SEB. Vasakronan issued the first green corporate bond in 2013 and since then the market has expanded. Green bonds have the same financial characteristics as traditional bonds, the difference being that the proceeds from green bonds have to finance environmental or climate friendly projects. Green bonds give incentives to investors and issuers to implement sustainable investments and projects. Aim: The purpose of the thesis is to examine and analyze motives and economic incentives behind the participation of players in the Swedish green bond market. In addition, the thesis maps out the institutional conditions that enabled the emergence of green bonds and highlight the future challenges and prospects. Completion: This thesis is a qualitative study of 13 interviews conducted by the authors. The interviewees represent the following groups: issuers, investors, banks and certifiers. A literature review about green bonds is provided to illustrate the characteristics of green bonds and the market. The empiric material is analyzed using institutional theory, game theory, financial theory and CSR theories, as well as previous research about CSR and SRI. Conclusion: A number of institutional conditions and individual actions have contributed to the rise and development of the Swedish green bond market. The motives and economic incentives that apply to all the players in the market are the opportunity to enhance a green and sustainable profile, the fact that green bonds have the same financial characteristics as traditional bonds and that they include a green feature. Future challenges for the growth of the green bond market include the development of standards and to increase the supply of green bonds.
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Barreno, Paredes Claudia Luzmila, Benzaquen Miguel Ángel Cancela, Lino Manuel Alejandro Cruzado, and Alejos Maricé Milagros Salvador. "Análisis del mercado de bonos verdes y comparación cuantitativa del rendimiento (yield) frente a los bonos convencionales." Master's thesis, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/653412.
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La presente investigación tiene como objetivo determinar el comportamiento del rendimiento (yield) de los bonos verdes y bonos convencionales que nos llevarán a realizar conclusiones y recomendaciones a los diferentes agentes del mercado financiero. Para ello, se hizo una segmentación del universo de bonos verdes por el tipo de maduración al vencimiento, tipo de cupón fijo, calificación con grado de inversión y tipo de moneda lo que nos permitirá realizar las curvas de rendimiento y hacer las comparaciones pertinentes.
Asimismo, se ha desarrollado el análisis de mercado y las razones detrás del uso de esta herramienta y los beneficios.
Como herramienta clave para esta investigación se ha utilizado la plataforma Bloomberg además de fuente bibliográfica especializada.
De los resultados de la investigación, se concluye que la moneda de dólares sigue siendo predominante en este tipo de instrumentos financieros, que el potencial América Latina aún es muy grande en comparación con mercados más maduros como Estados Unidos y en Europa, que los sectores financieros son los principales emisores y que en la mayoría de los segmentos analizados, la curva de rendimiento de los bonos verdes es cercana al del bono convencional o mayor en duraciones menores de 7 años.This research aims to determine the yield’s behaviour for the green and conventional bonds which leads to conclusions and recommendations for key stakeholders in the capital market. For that purpose, a segmentation of these bonds was done by criteria as maturity, fixed bullet coupon, investment grade and currency in order to graph both curves and make comparisons. Additionally, a market analysis has been developed which includes green bonds benefits and strengths. Bloomberg platform and specialized sources have been the key tools that support this research. In conclusion, the analysis allowed us to determine that dollar has preference in this market, LATAM Capital Market has still a gap in comparison with other mature economies like USA and Europe and financial entities are the main issuers for green bonds. Finally, as a result of the segmentation, green bond’s yield tends to be equal or has better performance in comparison with conventional bonds in less than seven years duration.
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Tomé, Inês Alexandra Guerra. "The green twist in the bond market: a performance analysis of green and conventional indices." Master's thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10071/19616.
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Green bonds emerged as an innovative fixed income product with potential to mobilize capital to promote the climate change mitigation or adaptation.
The present study aims to investigate whether the green bonds integration into the investor’s portfolio provides superior returns or if it implies a trade-off between sustainability concerns and financial performance, through the analysis of green and conventional bond indices.
The analysis of returns suggests low volatility and consequently, low investment risk for both types of indices. The difference between the means of returns were not statistically significant, implying the rejection of the trade-off theory between sustainability and financial performance. Also, short-run dependencies between green, investment grade (AAA, AA, A e BBB ratings) and conventional governmental-related indices were found.
Through the study of the long-run dynamics 20 cointegration relationships were identified, out of which only 4 showed a long-run equilibrium relationship and 9 revealed a short-run relationship. Evidence of strong exogeneity was found across 2 relationships. This weak expression of long-run cointegration suggests potential for benefits associated to the investment portfolio diversification to green bonds.As obrigações verdes surgiram como um produto inovador de rendimento fixo para mobilizar fundos que promovam a mitigação e adaptação às mudanças climáticas. O presente estudo tem como objetivo investigar se a integração de obrigações verdes numa carteira de investimentos é rentável para o investidor ou se implica uma escolha entre preocupações ambientais e rentabilidade financeira, com base no estudo de índices obrigacionistas verdes e convencionais. A análise dos retornos financeiros sugere baixos níveis de volatilidade e por consequência, baixo risco de investimento para os dois tipos de índices. As diferenças entre as médias dos retornos não são estatisticamente significativas o que implica a rejeição de incompatibilidade entre preocupações ambientais e rentabilidade financeira. Dependências de curto-prazo entre índices verdes e índices convencionais obrigacionistas com notações de crédito AAA, AA, A e BBB e de obrigações governamentais foram encontradas. Através do estudo das relações dinâmicas de longo-prazo, 20 relações de cointegração foram identificadas, das quais apenas 4 demonstraram ser relações de equilíbrio de longo-prazo e 9 revelaram ser de curto-prazo. Evidência de forte exogeneidade foi encontrada em 2 relações. Esta fraca expressão de cointegração de longo-prazo sugere potenciais benefícios associados à diversificação da carteira de investimentos com obrigações verdes.
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Liu, Hung-Hsu, and 劉泓序. "Green Bond Development in Taiwan and the Analysis of the Market." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/5ek2y9.
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As climate change becomes a more and more critical issue, the world has put much emphasis on environmental sustainability. Green bond as a newly developed financial instrument plays as the crucial role to induct funds to the green industry from the capital markets, and Taiwan also followed this trend, starting to develop the green bond market since 2017. The thesis reviews the development of green bond over the past decade, has an overview of the green bond market worldwide, and lastly focuses on the newly-developed Taiwan green bond market. The thesis analyzes the conditions and the yield of the USD green bonds in Taiwan and finds out that the bonds tend to have longer terms and zero coupon rate. From the perspective of investors, Taiwan USD green bonds belong to Formosa Bond whose investors are mainly lifers in Taiwan. Thus, the green bond market in Taiwan is highly influenced by the regulations of lifer’s foreign investment. The thesis collects the data from insurance companies and the Formosa Bond market which also attests the correlation between lifers and Formosa Bonds. The thesis concludes that the green bond market is still in its starting stage, lacking incentives for issuers and investors. The initial prosperousness of the green bond market is just an illusion, for the issuers just hope for media cover and reputation. Taiwanese Government can refer to Europe and the US government to adopt a more effective financial subsidy policy, guiding the investors to have a more socially responsible investment and boost the green bond market in Taiwan to prosper.
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Gerhardt, Marie-Christine. "Do green bonds perform differently than conventional bonds during market stress." Master's thesis, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/133496.
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Using a two-fold focus on abnormal return and bond liquidity, this thesis investigates whether green bonds and conventional bonds perform differently during market stress by analyzing 134green and 134conventional matched bonds. This study finds that investor preferences do not change during market stress in general, as the abnormal return of green and conventional bonds appear to co-move. Upon further scrutiny it is, however, confirmed that geopolitical infrastructure as well as industry specific characteristics lead to diverging performances among bond pairs, thus, impact investor choices in specific regions and sectors. Contrary, ESG indicators show little impact on bond performance.
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Ackassi, Anita. "The growth of the green bond market: a qualitative analysis of the barriers and opportunities." Master's thesis, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/107189.
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Despite the growing importance of green finance, green bonds currently account forless than 3% of the global bond-issue. As such, this paper aims to provide insights into the current status of the green bond market and its growth, focusing on the growth barriers and positive impacts of green bonds. This thesis is based on the literature available and on qualitative research in the form of in-depth interviews with a sample of eight experts in the field of green bonds. It concludes that current barriers can be solved, and that green bonds will become a significant part of the total bond market.
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Fernandes, Carolina Hipólito. "Are green bonds and their comparable conventional bonds issued at a different yield in the European Market?" Master's thesis, 2020. https://hdl.handle.net/10216/133158.
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Fernandes, Carolina Hipólito. "Are green bonds and their comparable conventional bonds issued at a different yield in the European Market?" Dissertação, 2020. https://hdl.handle.net/10216/133158.
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