Green and Sustainable Finance
A special issue of Journal of Risk and Financial Management (ISSN 1911-8074). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainability and Finance".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2020) | Viewed by 128712
Special Issue Editors
Interests: corporate governance; corporate social responsibility; corporate finance
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: corporate social responsibility; finance; social responsible investment
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Green and sustainable finance are more important nowadays that even before. They are gaining increasing worldwide attention from financial markets, political actors and the broader public alike. Their objective is to take into account environmental, social or governance (ESG) criteria when making financial decisions and designing financial services, thus expanding the benefit beyond investors to the whole society. Academics and practitioners are questioning the role that green and sustainable finance plays, which goes beyond the primary function of finance as funding the economy. Aware of the importance of extra-financial issues, the investment community has noted a shift in focus from shareholders’ to stakeholders’ values. A new approach of finance is thus needed to answer questions related to green and sustainable finance. Financial markets, corporate finance and corporate governance have to integrate extra-financial aspects into financial decision making processes. Many issues remain unresolved and questions unanswered: How to allocate funds optimally in terms of financial and non-financial performance, how to finance the economy and satisfy a variety of objectives of stakeholders (firms, investors and society) from a more global point of view? What are the consequence of this fund allocation in terms of risk management for corporations and investors? Which asset pricing methods can be proposed to value these innovative financial instruments? What is the role of policy makers in developing green and sustainable finance?
This Special Issue aims to answer these questions and address the theoretical and empirical issues related to recent developments and new directions in green and sustainable finance. It will advance our understanding of how financial products support investments in projects that benefit the environment and promote a carbon-free economy. It will also contribute to the development of a more comprehensive analysis of the role of green and sustainable finance in shaping firm and investor decisions. Papers will draw on recent theoretical and empirical research that explores the reasons, importance, and implications of business ethics, corporate social responsibility (CSR), and socially responsible investing. These will be of interest and relevance to academics, practitioners and policy makers. The Special Issue welcomes contributions from a broad range of fields related to finance.
Topics considered include, but are not limited to, innovative instruments to finance the energetic transition and green energy; innovations in private equity; green lending products; innovations in asset management (whatever the underlying assets); impacts of climate change and sustainable challenges on risk management and asset valuation; measuring the impact of ESG on portfolios; the design of common methods of impact measurement on firms and portfolio-level credit for sustainable projects, the relevance and governance of SRI labels; CSR and corporate governance; doing well by doing good, socially responsible banking, ethics in corporate finance and financial markets, and greenwashing and greenhushing.
Prof. Dr. Sabri Boubaker
Prof. Dr. Pierre Chollet
Prof. Dr. Souad Lajili-Jarjir
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Green finance
- Sustainable finance
- Ethical finance
- Sustainable investing and sustainable funds
- Impact investing
- Active ownership
- Corporate social responsibility
- Environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance
- ESG impact measures of portfolios
- Green bonds, climate bonds and social bonds
- Innovative financial instruments
- Socially responsible investments
- Microfinance
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