Past QSEF Seminars

Fall 2023 seminars

• September 28: Luca Taschini (University of Edinburgh and LSE) — Nailing Down Volatile Temperatures: Examining Their Effects on Asset Prices

• November 30: Francesca Zucchi (European Central Bank) — Dynamic Carbon Emission Management

• December 21: Fanny Henriet (CNRS - AMSE) — 'Bad' Oil, 'Worse' Oil and Carbon Misallocation

Spring 2024 seminars

• January 18: Ruixun Zhang (Peking University) — A Quantitative Approach to Optimal Impact Portfolios

• February 29: 

  • Simon Scheidegger (HEC Lausanne) — Deep uncertainty quantification: with an application to integrated assessment models

  • Louis Daumas (CIRED) — Financial transition risks and the multiverse of mitigation pathways: A scenario-exploration exercise with a stock-flow consistent model

• March 21: 

  • Andra Anoaica (BNP Paribas) — GHG footprint model and validation

  • Julien Xavier Daubanes (TU Denmark, MIT, CESifo) — Do Markets Price the Sensitivity of Economic Oil Reserves ?

• April  25: 

  • Rick van der Ploeg (University of Oxford) — Pricing in transition and physical risks: challenges for climate policy → Paper 1 and Paper 2

  • Julien Thavard (University of Nancy) — Climate Change and Banking Stability : Evidence for Latin America through Strong ENSO

• May 23: 

  • Emanuele Campiglio (University of Bologna) — Warning words in a warming world

Fall 2024 seminars

• October 3: 

  • • Maria-Eugenia Sanin (Paris Saclay University) — Biodiversity Risk, Firm Performance, and Market Mispricing

    • Ivan Diaz-Rainey (Griffith Business School) — Extreme seas, climate change and banking stability: A bottom-up temporospatial stress test in the context of domestic real estate

• November 7: Raman Uppal (EDHEC Business School) — Evaluating the Impact of Portfolio Mandates

• December 5: Marie Brière (Amundi Investment Institute) — Investor Concerns and the Pricing of Physical Climate Risk

• December 19: Philippe van der Beck (Harvard University) — Flow-Driven ESG Returns

Spring 2025 seminars

• January 22: Sara Biagini (LUISS) — Climate risk mitigation via carbon markets: accounting for the lifespan of GHGs

• March 6: 

  • • Jan Starmans (Stockholm School of Economics) — Sustainable Investing and Market Governance 

    • Adelina Barbalau (HEC and University of Alberta) — The Optimal Design of Green Debt

• March 27: 

  • Tiziano De Angelis (University of Turin) — A model of strategic sustainable investment 

  • Hélène Mathurin Iung (ESSEC) — Pricing of green regulatory and technological risks

• April 10: Matthias Kaldorf (Bundesbank) — Climate Minsky Moments and Endogenous Financial Crises

• May 22: Benoît Chevalier-Roignant (EM Lyon) — The effect of carbon prices on economic growth and decarbonization efforts

• June 19: Maxime Sauzet (Boston University) — Green Intermediary Asset Pricing