7th Annual GRASFI Conference at Singapore Management University

• Ye Zhang (Stockholm School of Economics): Startups’ Strategies for Green Funding Adoption
• Denitsa Stefanova (University of Luxembourg): Is ESG a Sideshow? ESG Perceptions, Investment, and Firms’ Financing Decisions
• Yun Lou (Singapore Management University): ESG Reporting Divergence

• Boyuan Li (University of Florida): One Hundred and Thirty Years of Corporate Responsibility
• Daniel Engler (University of Kassel): How do individuals perceive the EU taxonomy?

• Bing Lu (Beijing Normal University): Production Leakage: Evidence from Uncoordinated Environmental Policies
• Moritz Wiedemann (Imperial College): The CO2 Question: Technical Progress and the Climate Crisis
• Lakshmi Naaraayanan (London Business School): Opening the Brown Box: Production Responses to Environmental Regulation

• Fangyuan Kou (University of Exeter): Climate Talk in Earnings Calls: Effects on Analyst Forecasts and Environmental Strategies
• Tianhao Yao (Singapore Management University): ESG Incidents and Fundraising in Private Equity
• Alice Eliet-Doillet (Swiss Finance Institute/EPFL): Involuntary Disclosures Through Climate Litigations: Impact on Investors and Corporate Policies   

• Hoa Phan (RMIT University): Does Higher Risk Require More Rewards? Firm-Level Climate Risk and Top Executives’ Compensations
• Chang-Mo Kang (Hanyang University): Managerial Career Concerns and Corporate Environmental Policies
• Ziyao Ma (University of Glasgow): Social Networks and Corporate Environmental Policy

Closing Address: Jane Ambachtsheer, Global Head of Sustainability (BNP Paribas Asset Management)

Award presentations:

• BNP Paribas Asset Management Best Research Paper Award
• Ho Bee Land Best Paper Award for Climate Finance
• PhD Paper Award

Invitation to 2025 GRASFI Conference in Paris: Peter Tankov (ENSAE) on behalf of the Paris hosts (ENSAE & IP de Paris, Dauphine Universite Paris)

Conference conclusion: Ulrich Volz (Centre for Sustainable Finance at SOAS, University of London), Co-Chair of GRASFI

We encourage all faculty and students of GRASFI Member Universities to join us for our Annual General Meeting either in person at the conference or virtually via the zoom link provided. Remember that each Member University gets one vote: please make sure we know ahead of time who will be voting on your University’s behalf.

Agenda (detailed agenda to be provided closer to the time)

1. Report from Co-Chairs of the Board
2. Report from Conferences Committee
3. Report from PhD Committee
4. Report from Executive
5. Proposed change(s) to Articles of Association – vote
6. GRASFI Board changes: Nominations and voting
   1. Board retirements
   2. Nominees for Board
   3. New members for the Conferences Committee and PhD Committee
   4. New Subcommittee: Scientific Committee for reviewing papers for the Annual Conference
7. Any other business

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For those conference delegates who are not attending the GRASFI AGM, this tour was offered on a first come, first served basis. Registration is now closed due to overwhelming response. Successful registrants will receive an email with their group details soon.  If you would like to be placed on the waitlist, please email sgfc@smu.edu.sg.  Thank you.

In the heart of the arts and cultural precinct is a city campus that houses a diverse and lively collection of contemporary art from Singapore and Southeast Asia. Take a tour through the SMU Art Collection with docents detailing stories about the artists, the artworks, and the history of SMU against the backdrop of little-seen spaces within the bustling campus.

16:00 (Group 1) & 17:00 (Group 2)