“Steering Financial Markets in the Sustainable Transition”
September 16 – 17, 2021; online
“Steering Financial Markets in the Sustainable Transition” is the title of the first conference organized by the research network sustainable macro and the e-axes Forum on climate change, macro and finance.
That’s a wrap!
We thank our speakers and the lively audience for their participation in the first conference organized by our research network. Please find a video of the concluding panel, as well as the program and paper links below.
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Program “Steering Financial Markets in the Sustainable Transition”
September 16– 17, 2021
Thursday 16 September 2021
Session 1: Stress testing and climate-financial risk 2:00pm – 3:45pm CET
- Bi-layer stress contagion across investment funds: a climate application, Régis Gourdel, (ECB and WU Vienna) – Paper available here
- Environmental Sustainability and Financial Stability: Can Macroprudential Stress Testing Measure and Mitigate Climate-Related Systemic Financial Risk?, Mercy DeMenno (Duke University and Bosque Advisors) – Please contact Mercy to receive the paper
- Climate Change Regulatory Risks and Bank Lending, Isabella Mueller (Halle Institute for Economic Research) – Paper available here
Session 2: Steering monetary policy in the green direction 4:00pm – 5:45pm CET
- Climate Change Mitigation: How Effective is Green Quantitative Easing?, Raphael Abiry (Goethe University Frankfurt) – Paper available here
- It takes two to dance – Institutional dynamics and climate-related financial policies, Moritz Baer (University of Oxford) – Paper published here
- Central Bank Collateral as a Green Monetary Policy Instrument, Andrew McConnell (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research) – Paper available here
Friday 17 September 2021
Session 3: Dynamics of transition policy 1:00pm – 2:45pm CET
- Financial Policy, Green Transition and Recovery after the COVID-19, Dongyang Pan (UCL) – Paper available here
- Carbon Tax and Emissions Transfer a Spatial Analysis, Sahar Amidi (University of Orleans) – Paper available here
- Policy Interaction and the Transition to Clean Technology, Josselin Roman (Paris Dauphine University – PSL) – Paper available here
Session 4: Financial markets and the green transition 3:00pm – 4:15pm CET
- Dissecting Climate Risks: Are they Reflected in Stock Prices?, George Skiadopoulos (Queen Mary University of London and University of Piraeus) – Paper available here
- Issuing bonds during the Covid-19 pandemic: is there an ESG premium? Fabrizio Ferriani (Bank of Italy) – Paper available here
Session 5 : Panel discussion. Sustainable finance: Open threads in data and methodologies, 10:30am – 11:45am EDT, 4:30pm – 5:45pm CET
- Ivan Faiella, Senior Economist at the Bank of Italy, Coordinator of the Task Force for the G20 Sustainable Finance and member of the G20 Energy Sustainability Working Group
- Jean-Stéphane Mésonnier, Deputy Director, Directorate Microeconomic and Structural Analysis
- Irene Monasterolo, Assistant Professor of Climate Economics and Finance at Vienna University of Economics and Finance, visiting research fellow at Boston University and IIASA
- Maria Nikolaidi, Associate Professor in Economics, Department of Economics and International Business, University of Greenwich
- Ulrich Volz, Director of the Centre for Sustainable Finance and Reader in Economics, SOAS, University of London
