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7th Annual GRASFI Conference at Singapore Management University

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2-4 September 2024

Hosted by Singapore Management University

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2-4 September 2024: The Annual Conference

The 7th Annual GRASFI Conference is hosted by Singapore Management University
and the Singapore Green Finance Centre.

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PhD Workshop

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Can Investor Coalitions Regulate Corporate Climate Action?

How you measure transition risk matters: Comparing and evaluating climate transition riskmetrics

Real Effects of Carbon Financialization

Registration for Main conference

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Welcome Address

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Keynote Speech

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Plenary Session – Impact Investing

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Coffee Break

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Research Presentations: Impact of Regulation

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Residential Rent Externalities of Photovoltaic Systems: The Relevance of View

Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation: Voluntary Signaling or Mandatory Disclosure?

The Value of Environmental Monitoring

Research Presentations: Trade-offs in Sustainable Investment

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Biodiversity and Climate: Friends or Foes?

Intermediary Capital and Financing Sustainable Investment

Weitzman Meets Taylor: EU Allowances Futures Price Drivers and Carbon Cap Rules

Research Presentations: Greenwashing

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Can Investors Curb Greenwashing?

Corporate Climate Lobbying

Greenwashing: Measurement and Implications

Gala Dinner

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Morning Coffee and Refreshments

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Research Presentations: Investor Preferences I

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Decoding Sustainable Investment Strategies: Bridging Intentions and Actions

Renaming with purpose: Investor response and fund manager behaviour after fund ESG-renaming

Rich and Responsible: Is ESG a Luxury Good?

Research Presentations: Debt pricing of Climate Transition

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Do ESG investors care about carbon emissions? Evidence from securitized auto loans

Funding the Fittest? Pricing of Climate Transition Risk in the Corporate Bond Market

Pricing the Priceless: The Financial Cost of Biodiversity Conservation

Research Presentations: Governance and Activism

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Corporate Social Responsibility Committee: International Evidence

Financial Market Structure for ESG Integration

Institutional investors’ behind-the-scene monitoring and ESG disclosure

Coffee Break

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Plenary Session – Nature and Biodiversity Finance

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Lunch

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Research Presentations: Investor Preferences II

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A Breath of Change: Can Personal Exposures Drive Green Preferences?

Do advisors respond to investors’ preferences?

Do Financial Advisors Charge Sustainable Investors a Premium?

Research Presentations: Climate Beta

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Are Hedge Funds Exploiting Climate Concerns?

Local Ownership and Price Discovery around Extreme Weather Events

Research Presentations: Credibility and Accountability

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Accountability of Corporate Emissions Reduction Targets

Carbon Offsets: Decarbonization or Transition-Washing?

On the Importance of Assurance in Carbon Accounting

Coffee Break

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Plenary Session – Resilient Cities

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SMU City Campus Tour

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Dinner

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Morning coffee and Refreshments

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Research Presentations: Funding Effect of ESG Ratings and Disclosures I

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ESG Reporting Divergence

Is ESG a Sideshow? ESG Perceptions, Investment, and Firms’ Financing Decisions

Startups’ Strategies for Green Funding Adoption

Research Presentations: Communication and Perception

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How do individuals perceive the EU taxonomy?

One Hundred and Thirty Years of Corporate Responsibility

Research Presentations: Corporate Real Action

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Opening the Brown Box: Production Responses to Environmental Regulation

Production Leakage: Evidence from Uncoordinated Environmental Policies

The CO2 Question: Technical Progress and the Climate Crisis

Coffee Break

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Research Presentations: Funding Effect of ESG Ratings and Disclosures II

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Climate Talk in Earnings Calls: Effects on Analyst Forecasts and Environmental Strategies

ESG Incidents and Fundraising in Private Equity

Involuntary Disclosures Through Climate Litigations: Impact on Investors and Corporate Policies

Research Presentations: Executives and Climate Risk

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Does Higher Risk Require More Rewards? Firm-Level Climate Risk and Top Executives’ Compensations

Managerial Career Concerns and Corporate Environmental Policies

Social Networks and Corporate Environmental Policy

Lunch

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Closing Address and Awards

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Annual General Meeting of GRASFI Member Universities

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Art Collection Tour

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