High quality research can inform practice and give a better understanding of ESG risks, opportunities and impacts, thereby increasing the effectiveness of investment practices. However, navigating academic research can be a challenge for investors.
To share the insights of academic research with investors, Caroline Flammer (Professor of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University) has curated a selection of rigorous and high-quality academic studies in the following areas: ESG screening and integration; ESG shareholder engagement and activism; ESG financial instruments; ESG performance implications; measurement, disclosure and regulation; real estate, and climate.
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Find out more about the Academic Network Conference which was hosted as part of PRI in Person on 3-5 October 2023.
Paper | Authors | Journal | Year |
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Sustainable finance and ESG: Value versus values | Laura T. Starks | Journal of Finance | 2023 |
Exit versus Voice | Elenora Broccardo, Oliver Hart and Luigi Zingales | Journal of Political Economy | 2022 |
Responsible investing: The ESG-efficient frontier | Lasse Heje Pedersen, Shaun Fitzgibbons, Lukasz Pomorski | Journal of Financial Economics | 2021 |
Sustainable investing in equilibrium | Ľuboš Pástor, Robert F. Stambaugh, Lucian A. Taylor | Journal of Financial Economics | 2021 |
Short-Term Investors, Long-Term Investments, and Firm Value: Evidence from Russell 2000 Index Inclusions | Cremers M, Pareek A, Sautner Z | Management Science | 2020 |
Climate Finance | Hong H, Karolyi GA, Scheinkman JA | Review of Financial Studies | 2020 |
Attention to Global Warming | Choi D, Gao Z, Jiang W | Review of Financial Studies | 2020 |
Do Fund Managers Misestimate Climatic Disaster Risk | Alok S, Kumar N, Wermers R | Review of Financial Studies | 2020 |
Hedging Climate Change News | Engle RF, Giglio S, Kelly B, Lee H, Stroebel J | Review of Financial Studies | 2020 |
The Value of Green Energy: Optimal Investment in Mutually Exclusive Projects and Operating Leverage | Detemple J, Kitapbayev Y | Review of Financial Studies | 2019 |
Product Categories as Judgment Devices: The Moral Awakening of the Investment Industry | Arjaliès DL, Durand R | Organisation Science | 2019 |
Do Investors Value Sustainability? A Natural Experiment Examining Ranking and Fund Flows | Hartzmark SM, Sussman AB | Journal of Finance | 2019 |
Do Investors Value Sustainability? Replication, development and new evidence on CSR visibility | Durand R, Paugam L, Stolowy H | Strategic Management Fund | 2019 |
The Rise of Socially Responsible Investment Funds: The Paradoxical Role of the Financial Logic | Yan S, Ferraro F, Almandoz J | Administrative Science Quarterly | 2018 |
Why Do Investors Hold Socially Responsible Mutual Funds? | Riedl A, Smeets P | Journal of Finance | 2017 |
Asset Divestment as a Response to Media Attacks in Stigmatized Industries | Durand R, Vergne J | Strategic Management Journal | 2014 |
Paper | Authors | Journal | Year |
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Contracts with (Social) Benefits: The Implementation of Impact Investing | Geczy C, Jeffers J, Musto D, Tucker A | Journal of Financial Economics | 2021 |
Color and credit: Race, regulation and the quality of financial services | Taylor A. Begley, Amiyatosh Purnanandam | Journal of Financial Economics | 2021 |
Where’s the greenium? | Larcker DF, Watts EM | Journal of Accounting and Economics | 2020 |
Impact Investing | Barber B, Morse A, Yasuda A | Journal of Financial Economics | 2020 |
Categorical cognition and outcome efficiency in impact investing decisions | Lee M, Adbi A, Singh J | Strategic Management Journal | 2020 |
Investing for Impact | Chowdhry B, Davies SW, Waters B | Review of Financial Studies | 2019 |
Impact investing in disadvantaged urban areas | Boulongne R, Durand R, Flammer C. | Strategic Management Journal | Forthcoming |
Corporate Green Bonds | Flammer C | Journal of Financial Economics | Forthcoming |
Paper | Authors | Journal | Year |
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Climate change and long-run discount rates: Evidence from real estate | Stefano Giglio, Matteo Maggiori, Krishna Rao, Johannes Stroebel, Andreas Weber | The Review of Financial Studies | 2021 |
Is the Risk of Sea Level Rise Capitalized in Residential Real Estate? | Murfin J, Spiegel M | Review of Financial Studies | 2020 |
Does Climate Change Affect Real Estate Prices? Only If You Believe In It | Baldauf M, Garlappi L, Yannelis C | Review of Financial Studies | 2020 |
Doing Well by Doing Good? Green Office Buildings | Eichholtz P, Kok N, Quigley MJ | American Economic Review | 2010 |
Paper | Authors | Journal | Year |
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Mitigating disaster risks in the age of climate change | Harrison Hong, Neng Wang, Jinqiang Yang | Econometrica | 2023 |
Global pricing of carbon-transition risk | Patrick Bolton, Marcin Kacperczyk | Journal of Finance | 2023 |
Firm-level climate change exposure | Z Sautner, L van Lent, G Vilkov, R Zhang | Journal of Finance | 2023 |
The Social Cost of Carbon When We Wish for Full-Path Robustness | Yifan Zhao, Arnab Basu, Thomas S. Lontzek, Karl Schmedders | Management Science | 2023 |
An Analysis of Carbon-Reduction Pledges of U.S. Oil and Gas Companies | Hemang Desai, Pauline Lam, Bin Li, Shiva Rajgopal | Management Science | 2023 |
Climate Change, Firm Performance, and Investor Surprises | Nora Pankratz, Rob Bauer, Jeroen Derwall | Management Science | 2023 |
Climate Change and Uncertainty: An Asset Pricing Perspective | Michael Barnett | Management Science | 2023 |
Adjusting to Rain Before It Falls | Mitch Downey, Nelson Lind, Jeffrey G. Shrader | Management Science | 2023 |
Climate risk disclosure and institutional investors | Emirhan Ilhan, Philipp Krueger, Zacharias Sautner, Laura T Starks | The Review of Financial Studies | 2023 |
Welfare Consequences of Sustainable Finance | Harrison Hong, Neng Wang, Jinqiang Yang | The Review of Financial Studies | 2023 |
Carbon Footprinting and Pricing Under Climate Concerns | Marco Bertini | Journal of Marketing | 2022 |
Climate Change Concerns and the Performance of Green vs. Brown Stocks | David Ardia, Keven Bluteau, Kris Boudt, Koen Inghelbrecht | Management Science | 2022 |
Climate Policy Risk and Corporate Financial Decisions: Evidence from the NOx Budget Trading Program | Viet Anh Dang, Ning Gao, Tiancheng Yu | Management Science | 2022 |
Climate Impact Investing | Tiziano De Angelis, Peter Tankov, Olivier David Zerbib | Management Science | 2022 |
Firm climate risk, risk management, and bank loan financing | Henry He Huang, Joseph Kerstein, Chong Wang, Feng (Harry) Wu | Strategic Management Journal | 2022 |
Valuing the Global Mortality Consequences of Climate Change Accounting for Adaptation Costs and Benefits | Tamma Carleton et al | The Quarterly Journal of Economics | 2022 |
Mortgage Finance and Climate Change: Securitization Dynamics in the Aftermath of Natural Disasters | Amine Ouazad, Matthew E Kahn | The Review of Financial Studies | 2022 |
Going Underwater? Flood Risk Belief Heterogeneity and Coastal Home Price Dynamics | Laura A Bakkensen, Lint Barrage | The Review of Financial Studies | 2022 |
Financial Constraints and Corporate Environmental Policies | Qiping Xu, Taehyun Kim | The Review of Financial Studies | 2022 |
The Risk-Adjusted Carbon Price | Ton S. van den Bremer and Frederick van der Ploeg | American Economic Review | 2021 |
The Limits of Limited Liability: Evidence from Industrial Pollution | Pat Akey, Ian Appel | Journal of Finance | 2021 |
Do investors care about carbon risk? | Patrick Bolton, Marcin Kacperczyk | Journal of Financial Economics | 2021 |
Market expectations of a warming climate | Wolfram Schlenker, Charles A. Taylor | Journal of Financial Economics | 2021 |
Air pollution, behavioral bias, and the disposition effect in China | Jennifer (Jie) Li, Massimo Massa, Hong Zhang, Jian Zhang | Journal of Financial Economics | 2021 |
The Big Three and corporate carbon emissions around the world | Jose Azar, Miguel Duro, Igor Kadach, Gaizka Ormazabal | Journal of Financial Economics | 2021 |
Air pollution, affect, and forecasting bias: Evidence from Chinese financial analysts | Rui Dong, Raymond Fisman, Yongxiang Wang, Nianhang Xu | Journal of Financial Economics | 2021 |
Shareholder activism and firms’ voluntary disclosure of climate change risks | Caroline Flammer, Michael W. Toffel, Kala Viswanathan | Strategic Management Journal | 2021 |
Climate Change and Long-Run Discount Rates: Evidence from Real Estate | Stefano Giglio, Matteo Maggiori, Krishna Rao, Johannes Stroebel, Andreas Weber | The Review of Financial Studies | 2021 |
Carbon Tail Risk | Emirhan Ilhan, Zacharias Sautner, Grigory Vilkov | The Review of Financial Studies | 2021 |
Climate change and long-run discount rates: Evidence from real estate | Stefano Giglio, Matteo Maggiori, Krishna Rao, Johannes Stroebel, Andreas Weber | The Review of Financial Studies | 2021 |
Pricing climate change exposure | Zacharias Sautner, Laurence Van Lent, Grigory Vilkov, Ruishen Zhang | Management Science | forthcoming |