Climate Finance, Sustainability, ESG

Advisory Committee: Ontario Securities Commission, 2016 - 2017.  I served on the Small and Medium Sized Enterprises Committee.

1. Cumming, Douglas J. and Ji, Shan and Tarsalewska, Monika, 2023. "Market Manipulation and ESG Incidents"

   1. Presented at the 4th Global Chinese Accounting Association Summit, Curtin University, Perth, Academy of Sustainable Finance, Accounting, Accountability & Governance 2nd Annual Conference (ASFAAG), Bayes Business School, City University of London, Capital University of Economics and Business (CUEB), Beijing, Finance, Economics, Management and IT Business (FEMIB) Conference, Financial Management Association, Europe, Annual Conference, Lyon, Hawkes Center Workshop on Sustainability and Finance, Shanghai Green Finance Conference, Swansea University, Huddersfield Business School, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, INSPER, São Paulo Brazil, ISAFE Conference, Saigon Vietnam, Keynote, Annual International Undergraduate Finance Research Conference (IUFRC), Sri Lanka, Unisinos, São Leopoldo, Brazil, International Conference on Global Business and Societal Reset, India, University of Bradford's Annual Postgraduate Conference, University of South Carolina Darla Moore School of Business, and the University of Western Australia.

2. Boulton, Thomas J. and Cumming, Douglas J. and Zutter, Chad J., Climate Change Vulnerability and IPO Underpricing 2023. 

Others... details available on request.

1. Cumming, D.J., Wu, H., Zhao, Y. 2024. "The geography of environmental regulation: Plant-level emissions data" British Accounting Review, Forthcoming. [ABS 3]

2. Cumming, D.J., Kumar, S. Rani, N., and Upadhyay, P. 2024. Towards AI Ethics-Led Sustainability Frameworks and Toolkits: Review and Research Agenda, Journal of Sustainable Finance and Accounting, forthcoming.

3. Cumming, D.J., Duppati, G., Fernando, R., and Pratap Singh, S. and Tiwari, A.K., 2024. “Dynamics of Carbon Risk, Cost of Debt and Leverage Adjustments” British Accounting Review, Forthcoming. [ABS 3]

4. Cumming, D.J., M. Meoli, A. Rossi, and S. Vismara, 2024. ESG and Crowdfunding Platforms, Journal of Business Venturing, 39 (1), 106362. [ABS 4 FT]

5. Cumming, D.J., Farag, H., and Johan, S. 2024. Sustainability, Climate Change and Financial Innovation: Future Research Directions. European Financial Management, forthcoming. [ABS 3]

6. Cumming, D.J., Jun Hu, Huiying Wu, 2024. “Leaving a legacy for my children: The one-child policy reform and engagement in CSR among family firms in China” Journal of Business Ethics, forthcoming. [ABS 3 FT]

7. Akter, M., D.J. Cumming, and S. Ji, 2023. Natural disasters and market manipulation, Journal of Banking & Finance 153, 106883. [ABS 3]

8. Allen, M., M. Allen, D.J. Cumming, S. Johan, 2021. “Comparative Capitalisms and Energy Transitions: Renewable Energy in the European Union.” British Journal of Management, 32(3), 611-629 [ABS 4].

9. Allen, M.L., Allen, M.M.C., Cumming, D.J., Johan, S.A., 2020. “Comparative capitalisms and the environment: the ubiquity of markets against the environment?” Socio Economic Review, 18(1), 271–279. [ABS 3]

   1. This publication was part of a series of papers published as: Wood, G., Finnegan, J.J., Allen, M.L., Allen, M.M.C., Cumming, D.J., Johan, S.A., Nicklich, M., Endo, T., Lim S., and Tanaka, S., 2020. “The comparative institutional analysis of energy transitions” Socio Economic Review, 18(1), 257–294. [ABS 3]

10. Cumming, D.J., G. Leboeuf, and A. Schwienbacher, 2017. “Crowdfunding Cleantech” Energy Economics, 65, 292–303. [ABS 3].

11. Cumming, D.J., W. Hou and E. Lee, 2016. “Sustainable and Ethical Entrepreneurship, Corporate Finance and Governance, and Institutional Reform in China” Journal of Business Ethics, 134(4), 505-508. [ABS 3 FT]

12. Cumming, D.J., W. Hou, and E. Lee, 2016. “Business Ethics and Finance in Greater China: Synthesis and Future Directions in Sustainability, CSR, and Fraud” Journal of Business Ethics, 138, 601-626. [ABS 3 FT]

13. Cumming, D.J., I. Henriques, and P. Sedorsky,  2016. “‘Cleantech’ Venture Capital around the World” International Review of Financial Analysis, 44, 86-97. [ABS 3]

14. Cumming, D.J., and S.A. Johan, 2007. “Socially Responsible Institutional Investment in Private Equity” Journal of Business Ethics 75, 395–416. [ABS 3 FT]

1. Alam, M.S., M. Atif, D.J. Cumming, & M.S. Islam, 2024. "The impact of board gender composition on loan covenant violations" Corporate Governance: An International Review 32(4), 703-731. [ABS 3]

2. Cumming, D.J., X. Guo, and L. Yang, 2024. "REITs board gender diversity: The spillover effect of the Big Three campaign" Journal of Economics and Finance, forthcoming.

3. Cumming, D.J., and T.Y. Leung, 2021. “Board diversity and corporate innovation: regional demographics and industry context” Corporate Governance: An International Review, 29(3), 277-296. [ABS 3]  

   1. Wiley Top Cited Paper 2020-2021 Award

   2. Wiley Top Cited Paper 2021-2022 Award

   3. Working Paper Version Download for Free with Online Appendix

4. Cumming, D.J., Tak Yan Leung, and O.M. Rui, 2015. “Gender Diversity and Securities Fraud” Academy of Management Journal, 58(5) 1572-1593. [ABS 4* FT]

   1. Best Paper Award at EBES Conference, Featured by the New York Times in April 2014

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1. Cumming, D.J., and S.A. Johan, 2019. Crowdfunding: Fundamental Cases, Facts, and Insights, Elsevier Science Academic Press (506 pages), which comes with free instructional materials (PPT files, syllabus, assignments, exams) here

2. Boubaker, S., D.J. Cumming, D.K. Nguyen, 2017. Research Handbook of Investing in the Triple Bottom Line: Finance, Society and the Environment, Edgar Elgar

3. Boubaker, S., D.J. Cumming, D.K. Nguyen, 2017. Handbook of Corporate Finance and Sustainability, Edgar Elgar

4. Cumming, D.J., A. Guariglia, W. Hou and E. Lee, 2014. Sustainable Entrepreneurship in China: Ethics, Corporate Governance, and Institutional Reforms, Palgrave MacMillan. 

1. Cumming, D.J., 2023. ESG Disclosures and the Decision to Go Public. In Collected Essays on ESG: Myths and Realities, Fraser Institute, 1-13