Corporate Social Responsibility Committee: International Evidence
We provide worldwide large-sample evidence of a recent innovation in corporate governance: the voluntary creation of a separate board committee to...
Discussion Papers
Private Companies: The Missing Link on The Path to Net Zero
A global consensus is growing on the contribution that corporations and finance must make towards the net-zero transition in line with the Paris...
Inferring Mutual Fund Intra-Quarter Trading - An Application to ESG Window Dressing
We develop a novel method to infer intra-quarter trading of individual mutual funds. After a mutual fund executes a trade, its reported portfolio...
Coordinated Engagements
We study coordinated engagements by a prominent international network of long-term shareholders cooperating to influence firms on environmental and...
The Clash of ‘E’ and ‘S’ of ESG: Just Transition on the Path to Net Zero and the Implications for Sustainable Corporate Governance and Finance
Climate change is one of the highest-ranking issues on the political and social agenda. Corporations are one of the main actors that will play a major...
Sustainable Investing: Evidence From the Field
We survey 509 equity portfolio managers from both traditional and sustainable funds on whether, why, and how they incorporate firms’ environmental and...
Firms’ Transition to Green: Innovation versus Lobbying
Competitive challenges and regulatory uncertainty associated with the green transition should incentivize firms to innovate and to sway regulatory...
Green Capital Requirements
We study bank capital requirements as a tool to address financial risks and externalities caused by carbon emissions. Capital regulation can...
