2027 Baruch-JFQA Climate Finance and Sustainability Conference

March 11-12, 2027

New York City

Call for Papers

Baruch College and the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis are pleased to announce the 4th Baruch-JFQA Climate Finance and Sustainability Conference.

Building on the success of the past three conferences, we look forward to bringing together leading scholars from around the world to present original research and advance the dialogue on climate finance and sustainability. We welcome submissions across the full spectrum of climate finance and sustainability, and we particularly encourage submissions on emerging topics such as AI/data-center electricity demand and physical-risk insurance gaps, among others.

Submit Here (Deadline: midnight ET, November 6, 2026)

Main Program: We expect to accept 8-12 papers. Authors may also opt for dual submission to JFQA at no additional fee.

Junior Faculty Mentorship Program: New this year, junior faculty members, defined as untenured assistant professors, are invited to submit their research for consideration. Selected participants will present their work in a supportive workshop with senior faculty, where they will receive feedback, mentorship, professional-development guidance, and greater visibility for their research.

PhD/Post-doc Poster Session: PhD students and postdoctoral researchers may also submit work for consideration in the poster session.

Dual-Submission Process with JFQA

The Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis offers a dual-submission option, sponsored by Managing Editors Ran Duchin and Kai Li, with the same deadline of midnight ET, November 6, 2026, and no additional fee. Authors may choose conference-only submission or dual consideration by JFQA. JFQA is committed to a fast turnaround, and papers accepted through this process will be published in a curated collection on the conference theme.

Authors must indicate whether they wish to be considered under the JFQA dual-review option.

Dual submissions will be reviewed by the conference organizers and made available for consideration by JFQA.
Papers submitted for dual consideration must not be under review at JFQA or another journal and must not have been previously rejected by JFQA.
At JFQA's discretion, a small number of dual submissions will be sent for formal referee reports.
Papers declined at any stage of the dual-review process are not considered to have been "rejected" by JFQA and may be submitted to JFQA later without prejudice.
Papers under dual consideration may not be submitted to JFQA or another journal until authors are notified of the outcome.

For any inquiries or further information, please email baruch.jfqa.conf@gmail.com.

Keynote Speaker: Oliver Hart

Sir Oliver Hart is currently the Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor at Harvard University, where he has taught since 1993. He is the 2016 co-recipient of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. Hart’s research centers on the roles that ownership structure and contractual arrangements play in the governance and boundaries of corporations. His recent work focuses on how parties can write better contracts, and on the social responsibility of business. He has published a book (Firms, Contracts, and Financial Structure, Oxford University Press, 1995) and numerous journal articles. He has used his theoretical work on firms and contracts in several legal cases. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the British Academy, and the American Finance Association, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association, and has several honorary degrees. He has been president of the American Law and Economics Association and a vice president of the American Economic Association. He was made a Knight Bachelor in the King’s Birthday Honours List, 2023.

Keynote Speaker: Caroline Flammer

Caroline Flammer is the A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Economics at Columbia University, with appointments at the School of International and Public Affairs, the Climate School, and Columbia Business School. She is also a Research Associate at NBER, a Research Fellow at CEPR, a Senior Fellow at ABFER, and a Research Member at ECGI. She is an expert in sustainable investing and corporate sustainability and the recipient of numerous prestigious awards. The Web of Science ranked her among the top-100 Highly Cited Researchers in the economics and business profession in terms of impact over the past 10 years. At Columbia, she is the Founding Director of the Sustainable Investing Research Initiative (SIRI). Among other roles, Caroline serves as the President of the Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability (ARCS), and as Department Editor at Management Science.

Panel Discussion:

TBD

Conference Co-organizers/Co-Sponsors

Ran Duchin (Coughlin Family Professor, Boston College, Managing Editor, JFQA)

Kai Li (Canada Research Chair in Corporate Governance and W. Maurice Young Endowed Chair in Finance, UBC, Managing Editor, JFQA)

Lin Peng (Krell Chair Professor in Finance, Baruch College)

Dexin Zhou (Associate Professor, Baruch College)

Svenjia Dube (Assistant Professor, Baruch College)

Program Committee

Pat Akey (ESSEC), Elsa Allman (French Central Bank), Ian Appel (UVA Darden), Aymeric Bellon (UNC Chapel Hill), Jie Cao (HK Poly U), Ling Cen (CUHK), Dmitry Chebotarev (Indiana University), Darwin Choi (HKUST), Shira Cohen (SDSU), Joey Engelberg (UCSD), Janet Gao (Georgetown), Zhenyu Gao (CUHK), Daniel G. Garrett (UPenn), Shan Ge (NYU), Stefano Giglio (Yale), Mariassunta Giannetti (Stockholm School of Economics), Matthew Gustafson (Penn State), Umit Gurun (UT Dallas), Ai He (U of South Carolina), Christoph Herpfer (UVA Darden), Shiyang Huang (HKU), Wenxi Jiang (CUHK), Igor Kadach (IESE), Sehoon Kim (U of Florida), Andrei Kirilenko (Cambridge), Ugur Lel (UGA), Doron Levit (U of Washington), Ryan Lewis (CU Boulder), Kai Li (Tsinghua PBC), Jiasun Li (George Mason), Weikai Li (CityU HK), Hao Liang (Singapore Management University), TC Lin (HKU), Lisa Yao Liu (Columbia), Daniele Macciocchi (U of Miami), Pedro Matos (UVA), Roni Michaely (HKU), Adair Morse (UC Berkeley), Dermot Murphy (UIC), Lilian Ng (York University), Sangmin Oh (Columbia), Enrichetta Ravina (Northwestern), Lukas Roth (U of Alberta), Ethan Rouen (Harvard), Hong Ru (MIT), Parinitha Sastry (UPenn), Zacharias Sautner (U of Zurich), Christoph M. Schiller (Ohio State University), Thomas Schmid (HKU), Ishita Sen (Harvard), Sophie Shive (Notre Dame), Nikki Skinner (U of Colorado), Denis Sosyura (Arizona State University), Dragon Tang (HKU), Yuehua Tang (U of Florida), Nitzan Tzur-Ilan (Dallas Fed), Peter Tufano (Harvard), Yongxiang Wang (SAIF), Jeffrey Wurgler (NYU), Steven Xiao (UT Dallas), Qiping Xu (UIUC), Constantine Yannelis (Cambridge), Ayako Yasuda (UC Davis), Aaron Yoon (Northwestern), Xiaoyun Yu (SAIF), Hong Zhang (Singapore Management University), Shaojun Zhang (Ohio State University), Xin Zheng (UBC), Qifei Zhu (NUS)

Acknowledgement

The conference organizers thank the following for their generous support:

The Zicklin School of Business - A leader in public business education, dedicated to advancing knowledge and preparing students for success in a dynamic global economy.

The Robert A. Schwartz Center for Trading and Financial Markets Research – Dedicated to promoting the inclusion of trading and security market structure in academic curricula.

The Robert Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity – A forum for discussion of a broad range of issues confronting U.S. corporations and capital markets.

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