ESG Workshop

16 May 2025

The workshop will take place in Room 203, Alaric building.

9h00 - Welcome and coffee

9h15 - Do carbon emissions affect the cost of capital? Primary versus secondary corporate bond markets

Sébastien Pouget (University of Toulouse Capitole (TSM) and Toulouse School of Economics)

with Daniel Kim (University of Waterloo)

Discussant: José M. Martin-Flores (CUNEF)

10h15 - Leveling Up Your Green Mojo: The Benefits of Beneficent Investment

Xiaoyun Yu (Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance)

with Xiting Wu (Shandong University-School of Management), Jiaxing You (Xiamen University), and Qing (Clara ) Zhou (Macquarie University)

Discussant: Feng Zhou (Toulouse Business School)

11h15- Coffee break (30 minutes)

11h45 - The Cost of ESG Rating Uncertainty

Elise Gourier (ESSEC Business School)

with Menglong Na (ESSEC Business School)

Discussant: Keller Martinez-Solis (University of Toulouse Capitole (TSM))

12h45 - Lunch at Restaurant Barricot, of the Hotel Mercure Compans Caffarelli.

14h30 - ESG Metrics in Executive Compensation: a Multitasking Approach

Juan Pedro Gómez (IE Business School)

with Vikas Agarwal (Mack Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University), Kasra Hosseini (School of Industrial Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology), and Manish Jha (Mack Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University)

Discussant: Anna Toldrà Simats (Universidad Carlos III)

15h30 - Legislator Tweets About the Green Transition and the Returns of Green versus Brown Stocks

Javier Gil Bazo (Universitat Pompeu Fabra; UPF Barcelona School of Management; Barcelona School of Economics)

with Victor DeMiguel (London Business School) and Milind Goel (London Business School)

Discussant: Maria-Teresa Marchica (Manchester Business School)

16h30- Coffee break (30 minutes)

17h - Supply Chain Disruptions: The Propagation and Economic Costs of ESG Shocks

Vicente Bermejo (ESADE Business School)

With Carolina Villegas-Sanchez (ESADE Business School) and Erfan Ghofrani (World Federation of Exchanges)

Discussant: François Derrien (HEC Paris)

18h - End of the workshop

19h30 - Dinner at the Restaurant Molette (9 rue des Blanchers).