2025 Baruch-JFQA Climate Finance and Sustainability Conference

March 6-7, 2025

New York City

The 2025 Program is available here.

Call for Papers

The intersection of climate change, sustainability, and financial markets is an area of increasing concern. As the impacts of climate change become more evident, there is growing interest in understanding both the impact of climate change on the financial markets and the critical role finance can play in addressing this challenge.

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

The conference aims to bring together top scholars worldwide to present original academic research and contribute to the ongoing discourse on climate finance and sustainability. We welcome submissions from all related areas in finance, accounting, and real estate including but not limited to the following topics: climate finance, ESG, corporate sustainability, climate risk, climate-related regulation, green innovations, and renewable energy.

Please submit a paper here by December 10, 2024. The papers will be evaluated by members of the program committee. Accepted authors will be notified by the end of January. Previous programs can be found here.

The Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis offers authors a dual submission option, sponsored by the Managing Editors Ran Duchin and Kai Li, by the same deadline of December 10, 2024, with no additional fee. The authors are encouraged to choose to submit to both the conference and JFQA but can also choose to submit to the conference program only. The JFQA is committed to a fast turnaround, and the accepted papers will be published in a curated collection of papers with the same theme.

For any inquiries or further information, please email Baruch.JFQA.2025@gmail.com.

Keynote: Kai Li

Dr. Li, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (Class of 2022), holds the Canada Research Chair in Corporate Governance and W. Maurice Young Endowed Chair in Finance at the UBC Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia. She is Managing Editor of Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis. Dr. Li’s research focuses on the economic consequences of corporate governance mechanisms. Her current research projects explore: (1) gender and finance, (2) machine learning in finance, and (3) bond ownership and creditor governance. Her research has appeared in Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Management Science, Journal of International Business Studies, and many other leading journals in Finance and Economics. She is the recipient of the UBC Killam Research Award, the Sauder School of Business Research Excellence Award (both junior and senior categories), and the Barclays Global Investors Canada Research Award, a Senior Fellow of the Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research, a Research Member of the European Corporate Governance Institute, and a Research Fellow of the FinTech at Cornell Initiative. She is on the Editorial Board of Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Financial Intermediation, Journal of Financial Stability, and Pacific-Basin Finance Journal. She has also served on the Editorial Board of Review of Financial Studies, Review of Finance, Management Science, Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance, and Financial Management. Her research has been featured in Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, Financial Times, The Time Magazine, Reuters, CNBC, Bloomberg, Dow Jones Newswire, New Yorker, BBC, BNN, CBC National, CTV National News, National Post, Globe and Mail, U.S. News & World Report, Harvard Business Review, and Yahoo! Finance.

Keynote: Johannes Stroebel

Professor Stroebel is the David S. Loeb Professor of Finance at the New York University Stern School of Business. He conducts research in climate finance, household finance, social network analysis, macroeconomics, and real estate economics. He is the Director of the NYU Stern Climate Finance Initiative. Professor Stroebel was awarded the 2023 Fischer Black Prize by the American Finance Association, given every two years to the top financial economist under the age of 40. He has won numerous other awards, including the AQR Asset Management Institute Young Researcher Prize and the Brattle Award for the best paper published in the Journal of Finance. He has also earned an Andrew Carnegie Fellowship and an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in Economics. In the past, he was an Associate Editor at the Journal of Political Economy, the Review of Economic Studies, the Journal of Finance, and Econometrica. Professor Stroebel teaches classes on climate finance at the undergraduate, MBA, and executive education levels. He regularly provides advice to governments and firms on managing their financial risks from climate change. Among other roles, he was a member of the Climate-Related Market Risk Subcommittee at the Commodities and Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), as well as a member of a Working Group on Extreme Weather and Financial Risks at the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). He is the Chair of the Academic Advisory Council of the Center on Regulation and Markets at the Brookings Institution. Professor Stroebel read Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Merton College, Oxford, and earned a Ph.D. in Economics at Stanford University.

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

Elsa Allman (French Central Bank), Pat Akey (Toronto), Aymeric Bellon (UNC Chapel Hill), Dmitry Chebotarev (Indiana University), Raymond Fisman (Boston University), Janet Gao (Georgetown University), Daniel G. Garrett (UPenn), Shan Ge (NYU), Stefano Giglio (Yale), Umit Gurun (UT Dallas), Andrei Kirilenko (Cambridge), Lisa Yao Liu (Columbia), Daniele Macciocchi (Miami), Pedro Matos (UVA), Adair Morse (UC Berkeley), Lilian Ng (York University), Aneesh Raghunandan (Yale), Ethan Rouen (HBS), Lukas Roth (Alberta), Hong Ru (MIT), Parinitha Sastry (Columbia), Zacharias Sautner (University of Zurich), Christoph M. Schiller (OSU), Ishita Sen (Harvard), Sophie Shive (Notre Dame), Kelly Shue (Yale), Nikki Skinner (Colorado), Yuehua Tang (University of Florida), Lucian A. Taylor (UPenn), Jeff Wurgler (NYU), Qiping Xu (UIUC), Ayako Yasuda (UC Davis), Aaron Yoon (Northwestern), Xiaoyun Yu (Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance), Shaojun Zhang (OSU), Hong Zhang (Singapore Management University)

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