6th Annual Conference: Yale University

Registration for morning workshop

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Side Event: The Robustness and Integrity of Net Zero Commitments of Financial Sector Organisations

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Data quality in the spotlight: a Hybrid-LCA approach to evaluating reported corporate carbon footprints

De-risking Net-Zero through Offset Insurance: A Proposal

Finance for Zero: Redefining Financial-Sector Action to Achieve Global Climate Goals

Prudential transition plans: the potential of a new regulatory instrument and a research agenda

The Distributional Costs of Net-Zero: A Heterogeneous Agent Perspective

PhD Workshop

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Did we open the floodgates? Flood Damage and Infrastructure Loan Defaults

Do Green Financial Policies Offset the Climate Transition Risk Penalty Imposed on Long-Term Sovereign Bond Yields?

ESG in Private Equity: ESG Portfolio Footprints, Operational Levers and Financial Returns

Green Investors and Green Transition Efforts: Talk the Talk or Walk the Walk?

Lunch

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Registration

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Welcome and Opening Plenary on Net Zero

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Stream A: Climate policy and litigation

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Climate policy does not discourage oil and gas investments and requires global coordination

Impacts of climate litigation on firm value

Stream B: Portfolio Management

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Does the market value impact investing and socially responsible investing?

ESG as a Protection Against Downside Risk

Material ESG Alpha: A Fundamentals-Based Perspective

Stream B: ESG Ratings

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The complex materiality of ESG ratings: Evidence from actively managed ESG funds

The Economic Impact of ESG Ratings

The Market for ESG Ratings

Stream A: Transition Risks

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Climate transition risks and financial stability

Institutional Investors and Transition Risks: Evidence from Global Portfolios

Universal Ownership and the Polycrisis: Social Norms, Feedback Loops, and the Double Hermeneutic

Gala Dinner

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Breakfast

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Plenary: Is the Anti-ESG Movement a Threat for Sustainable Investing and Businesses?

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Stream A: Impact Investment

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Exit vs Voice Vs Denial of (Re)Entry: Assessing investor impact mechanisms on corporate climate transition across asset classes

Long-run Returns to Impact Investing in Emerging Market and Developing Economies

Pricing Investor Impact

Stream B: SRI and Negative screening

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Measuring Business Social Irresponsibility: The Case of Sin Stocks

The Curse of Green Shareholder Oversight: Evidence from Emission Spillover of Divested Plants

The effect of Divestment from ESG Exchange Traded Funds

Lunch

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Stream A: Central Banking

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A Divine Coincidence? Do Renewables Shield Inflation from Fossil Fuel-price Fluctuations?

Don’t Lead Me This Way: Central Bank Guidance at the Age of Climate Change

Green Asset Pricing

Stream B: Noise and Investment Behaviours

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Altruists going on an ego trip: Beliefs and ambiguity attitudes in socially responsible investment

ESG Confusion and Stock Returns: Tackling the Problem of Noise

Sustainability, Prices and Emotions

Stream A: Biodiversity Finance

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Biodiversity Management and Stock Price Crash Risk

Devising Nature-Aligned Finance

The Market Effect of Acute Biodiversity Risk: the Case of Corporate Bonds

Stream B: Technology and Data

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Managerial forward-looking and firm environmental risk: Evidence from a machine learning approach

The thematic content of ESG reports: A topic modeling approach

Using Graph Deep Learning to Trace Indirect Sourcing in Agricultural Supply Chains

Informal Dinner

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Breakfast

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Plenary: What are investors’ key research needs?

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Stream A: Fixed Income Instruments

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Investors in Green Bonds

Notes on Risk-Neutral Pricing of SLBs and Step-down Structures

The EU Taxonomy and the Syndicated Loan Market

Stream B: Firm Performance

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Decision rules for corporate investment

Drivers of Firm Investment in Low and High-Carbon Energy: Capital Markets and Climate Policy

Estimating the Impact of Physical Climate Risks on Firm Defaults: A Supply-Chain Perspective

Lunch

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Closing Plenary: Final Address and Awards

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AGM: GRASFI members

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Yale University Campus and Art Tour

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