Making Green From Green: The Influence of ESG Scores on European Stock Returns
Exploring Stock Performance Through an Enhanced Fama-French Model Suppose you are presented with a choice between a blue pill and a red...
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Sylvia Luptakova
Aug 264 min read
Turning Up the Heat: How Climate Risks Are Shaping Investment Strategies
This summer, the 22nd of July marked the hottest day recorded on Earth (Copernicus Climate Change Service, 2024) . In fact, the...
Elias Griepentrog
Jul 265 min read
Navigating Nonlinear Dynamics in the Economy: The Impact of Job Openings on Unemployment
The Federal Reserve embarked on an aggressive tightening cycle in 2022, raising interest rates from nearly 0% to a range between 5.25%...
Rostra Economica
Jul 182 min read
Make your work visible by publishing in the Rostra Thesis Series!
Did you put a lot of effort into your thesis, did you reach interesting conclusions, or did you explore a novel concept in your subject...
Beris Bajrović
May 37 min read
Financial Frontiers: The New Eurozone
From Adoption to Integration: The Eurozone's Influence on European Markets No matter if you want to grab some ice cream on a sunny day,...
Orlando Leite Faria
May 27 min read
Costly Convenience: the Complex Future of Global Shipping
It is hard to understate the overwhelming growth of globalisation over the past 50 years. Owning appliances labelled with "Made in...
Geetarath Arora
Mar 65 min read
The (Indian) Elephant in the Room: India’s Economic Dilemma and the Looming General Elections
As the world’s largest democracy celebrates the building of the much-awaited yet controversial Lord Ram temple, where once the Babri...
Alessandro Scagnolari
Feb 812 min read
Euro 2.0: Orwellian Dystopia or Future of Money?
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-media-max-width="560"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Protesters marched through the streets of Amsterdam to p
Elias Griepentrog
Dec 1, 202311 min read
Will the Federal Reserve Land the U.S. Economy Softly?
In March of the year 2022, amidst a 7.9% year-over-year surge in prices as per the consumer price index, the Federal Reserve enacted an...
Lilith Inés Vesti
Oct 24, 20237 min read
50 Shades of Pink: A Colorful Outlook on the Future of Consumer Debt Dynamics
From Amsterdam to Berlin, if you ever find yourself lost in a European metropolis, you have a pretty good chance of coming across a pink...
Alessandro Scagnolari
Oct 20, 20239 min read
Is there life after death for Swiss banking?
Whether you are a luxury watch enthusiast, a frequent visitor of its amazing skiing resorts, or maybe a fan of Federer’s magic touch,...
Carlo Felician
Jul 28, 20233 min read
Financial Crises: Random Shocks or “Biological Regularities”?
Economists are notoriously bad at predicting recessions even as they are taking place. Or maybe they are too good. After all, “the stock...
Mikołaj Kuczmarski
Jun 7, 20235 min read
Pay to Live - A Brief Look At The Subscription Economy
Do you own anything? I mean, really own anything? Or do you just rent everything from someone else? That’s the question that haunts me...
Indigo Hemingway
May 6, 20235 min read
The Two Tales of the Twenty-twenties
There is general acceptance of two modern-day behemoths: looming global recession and the boundless economic potential of artificial...
Carlo Felician Kouwenhoven
Mar 7, 20234 min read
Man vs. Machine: Why Cooperation is the Best Option
The term ‘technological unemployment’ has long been on the horizon. As early as 1930, John Maynard Keynes described this phenomenon as...
Riad Guliyev
Feb 19, 20235 min read
The Caspian Connector
"To follow the Silk Road is to follow a ghost. It flows through the heart of Asia, but it has officially vanished leaving behind the...
Mikołaj Kuczmarski
Feb 7, 20238 min read
Fall of the (crypto) titan
The last year has been rather tough for crypto. Over the summer we saw prices crash and several companies fail. If anyone thought the...
Mira Chandrikasingh
Feb 7, 20235 min read
Organ Operations
What is the organ market, and why do we have one? Around 2014, China reported that about 85,000 organs were transplanted, this was...
Riad Guliyev
Jan 14, 20235 min read
Bitter Stalemate In Money Supply
Ben Bernanke, Douglas Diamond, Philip Dybvig (© Nobel Prize Outreach/Niklas Elmehed) In 1661 Johan Palmstruch discovered a Midas touch...
Ekin Köseoğlu
Jan 14, 20234 min read
Whatever happened to NFTs?
Non-fungible tokens. NFTs. Pictures of monkeys and three-dimensional animations of Donald Trump puking rainbows were all over our Twitter...
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