4th Geneva Summit on Sustainable Finance
07/12/2018
Description
the Summit brings together academics, investment practitioners, policy makers and civil society professionals. It plays an important role in highlighting innovative and cutting-edge trends and connecting key stakeholders, in sustainable finance.
It will help to build awareness of, and momentum for, this increasingly important field.
Objectives:
- Provide – thought leadership and a knowledge platform for sustainable finance
- Identify – key emerging research and trends in sustainable finance
- Discuss – cutting edge and innovative research and ideas in the field
- Connect – sustainable finance academics, practitioners and civil society professionals to network and share ideas
- Build – a growing sustainable finance community in Europe and beyond
Informations
Venue
Geneva, Switzerland
Organized by
Geneva Finance Research Institute, University of Geneva
Web site
Schedule
09:00 – 09:15
Welcome and Introduction
Philipp Kruger, Associate Professor of Finance, University of Geneva and Junior Chair, Swiss Finance Institute
Fabio Sofia, President, Sustainable Finance Geneva
09:15 – 10:25
Opening Plenary
Chair: Philipp Kruger, Associate Professor of Finance, University of Geneva and Junior Chair, Swiss Finance Institute
Paper 1: Corporate Green Bonds
Speaker: Caroline Flammer, Associate Professor Strategy and Innovation, Boston University
Paper 2: Exporting Pollution
Speaker: Michael Viehs, Associate Director Hermes Investment Management
11:00 – 12:45
Morning Parallel Sessions
Session 1
Chair: Tom Steffen, Postdoctoral researcher in Sustainable Assets, Geneva Finance Research Institute
Paper 1: ESG Preference and Market Efficiency: Evidence from Mispricing and Institutional Trading
Speaker: Xintong Zhan, Assistant Professor of Finance, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Discussant: Laurent Nguyen, Pictet Asset Management
Paper 2: Depositors Disciplining Banks: The Impact of Scandals
Speaker: Mikael Homanen, PhD Candidate in Finance at Cass Business School in London
Discussant: Nicole Streuli-Fürst, Executive Vice President Operations and Research, RepRisk
Paper 3: Coordinated Engagements
Speaker: Oğuzhan Karakas, University of Cambridge
Discussant: Matthias Narr, Senior Engagement Manager, Ethos Foundation
Session 2
Chair: Peter Steffen Schmidt, Postdoctoral Fellow in Sustainable Finance, Geneva Finance Research Institute
Paper 1: Temperature Shocks and Earnings News
Speaker: Jawad M. Addoum Assistant Professor Finance, Cornell University
Discussant: TBC
Paper 2: The Pollution Premium
Speaker: Chi-Yang Tsou, Research Fellow, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Discussant: TBC
Paper 3: Being Stranded on the Carbon Bubble? Climate Policy Risk and the Pricing of Bank Loans
Speaker: Kathrin de Greiff, PhD Candidate in Banking and Finance, University of Zurich and the Swiss Finance Institute
Discussant: Basma Majerbi, Associate Professor of Finance, Peter B. Gustavson School off Business, the University of Victoria, British Colombia
12:45 – 14:00
Lunch and Poster Presentations
Poster 1: Corporate Ethical Behaviours and Firm Equity Value and Ownership: evidence from the GPFG’s ethical exclusions – Vaska Atta-Darkua, PhD Candidate University of Cambridge
Poster 2: As the Mercury Soars, is Your Bottom Line Melting? – Nora Pankratz, PhD Candidate Maastrict University
Poster 3: Altruism and Egoism in Investment Decisions – Daniel Brodback, PhD Candidate University of Münster
Poster 4: When companies use their wiggle room, which investors care? – Marco Ceccarelli, PhD Candidate University of Zurich
14:00 – 14:30
High Level Panel: Sustainable Finance on the Ground - Stories from the Field
Moderator: Mark Halle, Senior Fellow International Institute for Sustainable Development
Panellists:
Guido Fürer, Group Chief Investment Officer Swiss RE.
Steven Tebbe, Managing Director, CDP Europe
Carolina Minio-Paluello, Lombard Odier Asset Management
Nike Trost, Senior Manager Markets Policy, Financial Conduct Authority UK
15:15 – 15:45
Coffee Break
15:45 – 16:30
Keynote Speech
“Digital finance solving real economic and sustainability challenges”
Nick Hughes OBE, Co-founder of M-KOPA and “father” of M-PESA
16:30 – 17:00
Presentation Best Paper Award, Most Innovative Paper Award and Closing Remarks
Presentation Best Paper Award: Professor Rajna Gibson Brandon, University of Geneva and the Geneva Finance Research Institute
Presentation Most Innovative Paper Award: Fabio Sofia, President, Sustainable Finance Geneva
Closing Remarks: Professor Yves Flückiger, Rector, University of Geneva
