Nicolas Webersinke, M.Sc.

Consultation Hour

Thu, 10.30 – 11.30 | Registration via Email necessary

Research Areas

• Sustainable Finance
• Natural Language Processing for Finance
• Computer Vision for Finance
• Performance Analysis

Short CV

• 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

• Cheap talk and cherry-picking: What ClimateBert has to say on corporate climate risk disclosures
  Finance Research Letters, Vol. 47, 2022, 102776 (with Julia Anna Bingler, Mathias Kraus, and Markus Leippold)
  Abstract and download
• ClimateBert: A Pretrained Language Model for Climate-Related Text
  AAAI 2022 Fall Symposium (with Mathias Kraus, Julia Anna Bingler, and Markus Leippold)
  Abstract and download
• Towards Climate Awareness in NLP Research
  EMNLP 2022 (with Daniel Hershcovich, Mathias Kraus, Julia Anna Bingler, and Markus Leippold)
  Abstract and download

Working Papers

• Cheap Talk in Corporate Climate Commitments: The effectiveness of climate initiatives
  Working Paper, Zürich and Nürnberg, 2022 (with Julia Anna Bingler, Mathias Kraus, and Markus Leippold)
  Abstract and download
  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
• A Dataset for Detecting Real-World Environmental Claims
  Working Paper, Zürich and Nürnberg, 2022 (with Dominik Stammbach, Julia Anna Bingler, Mathias Kraus, and Markus Leippold)
  Abstract and download
• Permutation Tests for Stock Index Performance: Evidence from ESG Indices
  Working Paper, Nürnberg 2022 (with Benjamin Hübel and Hendrik Scholz)
  Abstract and download
  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