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GRASFI 2022 Annual Conference: Best Paper Prize Winners

Winners were announced at the GRASFI  5th Annual Conference hosted by the Center for Sustainable Finance and Private Wealth (CSP) and the Center for Competence for Sustainable Finance (CCSF), University of Zurich from 5-7 September 2022.

GRASFI Best Paper Prize (sponsored by BNP Paribas Asset Management):

Cheap Talk in Corporate Climate Commitments: The Role of Active Institutional Ownership, Signaling, Materiality, and Sentiment Firm sustainability: How do investors drive it ahead, if at all?” by Julia Bingler, Mathias Kraus, Markus Leippold and Nicolas Webersinke. This has since been published in the Journal of Banking & Finance as “How cheap talk in climate disclosures relates to climate initiatives, corporate emissions, and reputation risk” .

GRASFI Best Paper Prize for Transparency for Stakeholders (sponsored by Swiss Sustainable Finance):

“Which institutional investors drive corporate sustainability?” by Marco Ceccarelli, Simon Glossner, Mikael Homanen and Daniel Schmidt

GRASFI Best Paper Prize for Climate Finance Research (sponsored by Imperial College Business School, Centre for Climate Finance & Investment):

Scope 3 Emissions: Data Quality and Machine Learning Prediction Accuracy” by Quyen Nguyen, Ivan Diaz-Rainey, Adam Kitto, Ben McNeil, Nic Pittman and Renzhu Zhang

GRASFI Best Paper Prize for Impactful Research (sponsored by Impact Foundation):

“The Optimal Design of Green Securities” by Adelina Barbalau and Federica Zeni

GRASFI Best PhD Paper Prize:

Nature as a Defense from Disasters: Natural Capital and Municipal Bond Yields” by Claudio Rizzi

GRASFI Best PhD Paper Prize – Runners Up:

Pricing Physical Climate Risk in the Cross-Section of Returns” by Glen Gostlow

Inflated ESG ratings through socially responsible investing: An inverse relation to sustainable performance” by Bram van der Kroft and Dennis Bams

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