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Laurens Swinkels
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Associate Professor of Finance at Erasmus University Rotterdam and Executive Director at Robeco Asset Management. www.laurensswinkels.com #FinSky #EconSky

📍Oslo, Norway 🇳🇴
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A new working paper on "The Viability of Bitcoin as a Central Bank Reserve Asset" concludes that Bitcoin lacks stability and liquidity, but could still play a role in central bank management.

Link to paper: dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...

#EconSky #FinSky #Finance #Bitcoin #Academic
November 11, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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My paper just published *open access* in the Journal of International Money and Finance "The risk and reward of investing" doi.org/10.1016/j.ji...

Short video clip about the content on www.laurensswinkels.com, where you can also find the data.

#EconSky #FinSky #Academic #Investing #Finance
November 6, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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New working paper on Gold and Bitcoin

Link to paper: dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...

#Gold #Bitcoin #Investing #FinSky #EconSKy #Safehaven
October 29, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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The economic consequences of war

Link to paper: www.nber.org/papers/w34389

#EconSky #War #Economy #Academic #HistorySky
October 20, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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New paper on how to best reduce carbon emissions.

#Climate #Carbon #Investing #Assets #EconSky

Link to paper: www.nber.org/papers/w34342
October 16, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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New paper comparing investment in gold with investment in gold miners.

#Investing #Gold #Stocks #FinSky

Link to paper: dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...
October 15, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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First thought that this was about stocks that Republican voters like, but the term red turns out to be related to something completely different, accounting related: "The Rise of Red Equity"

Link to paper: dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...

#Investing #EconSky #FinSky #Stocks #Equities #Red
September 10, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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A practical way to approach lifecycle investing for retirement

Link to paper: doi.org/10.3386/w34166

#pension #retirement #finance #investing #econsky
August 25, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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"The value of finance journals" by Professor Douglas Cumming

Link to paper: doi.org/10.48550/arX...

#finance #academic #journals #valuation
August 21, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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Morning walk in Vaasa 🇫🇮
August 13, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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New paper "International Climate News" extending the line of research examining US climate news.

#sustainability #climate #econsky

Link to paper: www.nber.org/papers/w34084
August 4, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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Morning walk in Oslo 🇳🇴 (Skjærsjøen)
August 3, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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Carbon Taxes and Green Subsidies in a World Economy

#EconSky #Sustainability #Climate #Green #CarbonTax

Link to paper: www.nber.org/papers/w34080
July 29, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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King’s Viewpoint 🇳🇴 at the end of my morning walk yesterday #Tyrifjord #Norway #MorningWalk
July 21, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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"Beyond Greenwashing: How does Firm-Level Biodiversity Disclosure Affect Corporate Sustainability Strategy?"

#Sustainability #Biodiversity #Greenwashing #EconSky #FinSky #Academic

Link to paper: ssrn.com/abstract=522...
July 17, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Morning walk in Breugel 🇳🇱
July 13, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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I put the model fit graph even in the main text of my latest paper, to supplement the table with coefficients 😀
July 7, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Yesterday’s morning walk in Oslo 🇳🇴
July 5, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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Fantastic new research on historical default losses of investing in government bonds!

Link to article: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#EconSky #HistorySky #FinSky #Investing #Bonds
June 24, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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New paper on the investment/divestment policies of investors when it comes to domestic and foreign high carbon emitting companies.

Link to (open access) paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.jc...

#sustainability #climate #investing #econsky #academic
June 10, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Finally, economists have somebody to chat with: EconBERT!

Link to paper: dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...

#EconSky #Economics #LLM #BERT #Academic
June 10, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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Do smart financially smart people own crypto? --> Crypto Ownership Among Young People in Italy

Link to paper: dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...

#Crypto #Blockchain #EconSky #FinSky #Investing #Italy
June 6, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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Do Machine Learning Models Need to Be Sector Experts?

#MachineLearning #ML #Investing #FinSky

Link to paper: dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...
June 5, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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Apparently, Google Scholar can be manipulated to get artificially high citation number and H-index.

Link to working paper: arxiv.org/abs/2402.04607

#Academic #EconSky #Science #Publication #Citation
June 3, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Morning walk in Kongsvinger 🇳🇴
May 31, 2025 at 8:17 AM