Programme

May 20th, 2022 – NEOMA – Paris Campus

8:00 – 9:00 am Registration & Welcome coffee

9:00 – 9:15 am Opening Remarks

9:15 – 10:45 am Session 1

Sustainable lending – Chair: Marianna Russo

Sehoon Kim (University of Florida), ESG Lending (with Nitish Kumar, Jongsub Lee, Junho Oh)
Emanuela Benincasa (University of Zurich) “There is No Planet B” but for Banks There Are “Countries B to Z”: Domestic Climate Policy and Cross-Border Bank Lending (with Gazi Kabas, Steven Ongena)
Roman Goncharenko (KU Leuven), When green meets green (with Hans Degryse, Carola Theunisz)

10:45 – 11:00 am Coffee Break

11:00 am – 12:30 pm Session 2

Sustainability and Investor Behavior – Chair: Samuel Ouzan

Kadach Igor (IESE) Why do Institutional Investors Request Climate Related Disclosures? (with Shira Cohen, Gaizka Ormazabal)
Sofia Brito-Ramos (ESSEC) Disagreement in mutual fund sustainability labelling (with Maria Céu Cortez, Florinda Silva)
Milo Bianchi (TSE) Are We Becoming Greener? Life-time Experiences and Responsible Investment (with Zhengkai Liu, Gang Wang)

12:30 – 1:30 pm Lunch Break

1:30 pm – 2:30 pm Keynote Speech

By Jean-Charles Rochet (University of Geneva & SFI)

Why do firms issue green bonds? (with Julien Daubanes, Shema Mitali)

2:30 – 2:45 pm Coffee Break

2:45 – 4:45 pm Session 3

Market Reaction to Climate Risk – Chair: Eser Arisoy

Athena Tsouderou (IE Business School) Climate Risk and Mortgage Markets: Evidence from Hurricanes Harvey and Irma (with Pedro Gete)
Pedro Gete (IE Business School) Climate Risks in Housing Markets: Evidence from News Shocks (with Rajdeep Chakraborti, Martinez-Toledano)
Xuan Wang (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) Sustainable Investing and Public Goods Provision (with Ilaria Piatti, Joel Shapiro)
Alev Yildirim (Southern Connecticut State University) Natural Disasters and Green Innovation (with Omer Unsal)

4:45 – 5:00 pm Coffee Break

5:00 – 6:00 pm Closing Panel

ESG investing: The Future (and Present) of finance – Moderator: Messaoud Chibane

Nathalie Aufauvre, Directrice Générale de la Stabilité Financière et des Opérations, Banque de France
Lionel Tangy Malca, CEO, Homa Capital
Mariem Mhadhbi, CEO, Valuecometrics
Cédric Renaud, Director Sustainable Finance, Mazars France