Dr. Nicolas Webersinke
Research Areas
- Sustainable Finance
- Natural Language Processing for Finance
- Computer Vision for Finance
- Performance Analysis
Short CV
- May 2023: Dissertation „Essays on the Application of Statistical and Machine Learning Methods to Sustainable Finance“
- 2022: CFA Institute Certificate in ESG Investing
- 2019-2021: M.Sc. in International Information Systems (IIS), University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, majors: Business Analytics
- Since 2018: Research assistant and doctoral candidate, Chair of Finance and Banking, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg
- 2016: Studies abroad at Turku School of Economics/University of Turku, Finland
- 2015-2018: M.Sc. in Finance, Auditing, Controlling, Taxation (FACT), University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, majors: Finance
- 2014-2017: Internships (among others: TeamBank AG, Ernst & Young GmbH)
- 2012-2015: B.A. in Business Administration and Economics, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg
Publications
2024
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Cheap Talk in Corporate Climate Commitments: The effectiveness of climate initiatives
In: Journal of Banking & Finance 164 (2024)
ISSN: 0378-4266
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbankfin.2024.107191
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2023
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Environmental Claim Detection
61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Toronto, 9. Juli 2023 - 14. Juli 2023)
In: Association for Computational Linguistics (Hrsg.): Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers) 2023
Open Access: https://aclanthology.org/2023.acl-short.91
URL: https://aclanthology.org/2023.acl-short.91
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ChatClimate: Grounding conversational AI in climate science
In: Communications Earth & Environment 4 (2023), Art.Nr.: 480
ISSN: 2662-4435
DOI: 10.1038/s43247-023-01084-x
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2022
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Cheap Talk and Cherry-Picking: What ClimateBert has to say on Corporate Climate Risk Disclosures
In: Finance Research Letters 47 (2022), S. 102776
ISSN: 1544-6123
DOI: 10.1016/j.frl.2022.102776
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Towards Climate Awareness in NLP Research
EMNLP 2022: The 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (Abu Dhabi, 7. Dezember 2022 - 11. Dezember 2022)
In: Association for Computational Linguistics (Hrsg.): Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing 2022
Open Access: https://aclanthology.org/2022.emnlp-main.159
URL: https://aclanthology.org/2022.emnlp-main.159
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ClimateBert: A Pretrained Language Model for Climate-Related Text
AAAI 2022 Fall Symposium: The Role of AI in Responding to Climate Challenges (Arlington, VA, 17. November 2022 - 19. November 2022)
In: Proceedings of AAAI 2022 Fall Symposium: The Role of AI in Responding to Climate Challenges 2022
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.4229146
URL: https://www.climatechange.ai/papers/aaaifss2022/12
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- Board Diversity Appearance and Firm Performance: An Image-Based Deep Learning Approach
Working Paper, Nürnberg 2024
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Accepted for presentation:- 64th Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Finance Association, San Antonio, TX, February 12 – 14, 2025
- 34th Annual Conference of the European Financial Management Association, Athens, Greece, June 25 – 28, 2025
- 31st Annual Conference of the Multinational Finance Society, Crete, Greece, June 29 – July 2, 2025
- Annual Meeting of the Financial Management Association, Vancouver, Canada, October 22 – 25, 2025
- 65th Annual Meeting of the Southern Finance Association, Orlando, FL, November 19 – 22, 2025
- Natural Language Processing meets Accounting and Finance: Review and Performance Comparison of Textual Analysis Approaches
Working Paper, Nürnberg 2023
Abstract and download - ChatClimate: Grounding Conversational AI in Climate Science
Working Paper, Zürich, Oxford, and Nürnberg, 2023
Abstract and download - Paradigm Shift in Sustainability Disclosure Analysis: Empowering Stakeholders with Chatreport, a Language Model-Based Tool
Working Paper, Zürich, Oxford, and Nürnberg, 2023
Abstract and download - How Cheap Talk in Climate Disclosures relates to Climate Initiatives, Corporate Emissions, and Reputation Risk
Working Paper, Zürich and Nürnberg, 2023
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Accepted for presentation:- Monash-Warwick-Zurich Text-As-Data Workshop [Virtual], February 17-18, 2022
- Alan Turing AI for Sustainable Finance seminar [Virtual], May 23, 2022
- SFI Research Days 2022, June 13-14, 2022
- 1st Sustainable Finance Summer Workshop by Sciences Po and Banque de France, Paris, June 20-21, 2022
- 4th Summer School on Sustainable Finance, Joint Research Center (JRC) of the European Commission, July 07-08, 2022
- GRASFI 5th Annual Conference 2022, Zürich, September 5-7, 2022 (Best Paper Award)
- UN PRI Academic Network Conference 2022 [Virtual], September 19-23, 2022
- Permutation Tests for Stock Index Performance: Evidence from ESG Indices
Working Paper, Nürnberg 2023
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Accepted for presentation:- Southwestern Finance Association 2020 Annual Conference, San Antonio, TX, March 11-14, 2020
- Annual Meeting of the Swiss Society for Financial Market Research, PhD Poster Session, Zurich, April 3, 2020
- 28th Global Finance Conference [Virtual], May 27-29, 2021
- GRASFI 2021 PhD Workshop [Virtual], August 31, 2021
- 2021 FMA Annual Meeting [Virtual], October 20-22, 2021
Teaching
- Financial Engineering & Structured Finance (Übung)
- Kapitalmarktanalyse mit Refinitiv Workspace
- Bachelorarbeit mit Seminar
- Seminar Finanzierung und Banken
- Workshop Finance
- Workshop Capital Markets Research
- Hauptseminar Finance
- Masterarbeit