CIDEEFF Conference and Publication Sustainable Finance: between private and public solutions

We are pleased to announce that the CIDEEFF is interested in fostering collaboration and create an opportunity to present and diffuse the ongoing research for emerging and highly regarded academics and professionals who are interested in research on sustainable finance.

In this regard, we are requesting submission of working papers namely on the following topics:

Financial Markets:

• Climate litigation involving financial institutions
• Green taxonomy
• Monetary policy and the integration of ESG factors in reserve management
• Green, social and sustainable sovereign bonds
• Banking regulation and the integration of ESG factors in risk management
• Bank credit market and the integration of ESG factors in risk management
• Credit with positive environmental and/or social impacts: regulatory perspectives
• Credit with positive environmental and/or social impacts: market perspectives
• Regulation of institutional investments and the integration of ESG factors in risk management
• Investment funds and ESG
• Pension funds and ESG
• Investment market and the integration of ESG factors in risk management
• Investments with positive environmental and/or social impacts (taxonomies; thematic investment funds; thematic debt/bonds): regulatory perspectives
• Investments with positive environmental and/or social impacts (thematic investment funds; thematic debt/bonds): market perspectives
• Capital market regulation and disclosure of ESG information by listed companies
• ESG Ratings: Regulatory and Market Perspectives for Consistency
• Stock Exchange Sustainability Indexes
• Insurance regulation and ESG factors - risk management and investment policies
• Insurance market and the integration of ESG factors in risk underwriting policies
• Socio-environmental and financial sector databases
• Fintech, Regtech and the integration of ESG factors in the financial sector
• Risks and opportunities linked to biodiversity/natural capital and the role of the financial sector

Public Finance and Tax Law:

• Green budget and public accounting
• Green public investment
• Green public funds
• Carbon taxation
• Energy taxation
• Green taxes in the context of broader tax reform
• The greening of tax benefits
• Environmental taxation in view of reducing energy dependence
• Circular economy
• Carbon border adjustment mechanism
• Environmental and emission trading schemes
• Crowding in and crowding out effects of using multiple greening instruments

They will be submitted to a blind peer-review and, if accepted, presented at our Conference and published as part of our WP series or included in a thematic publication. In any case, publication will be openly accessible on our website.

How and when to submit:

Please submit your (draft) working paper, preferably in English, including a short bio (no more of 300 words) by 11:59 pm GMT on 12th June 2022, at cideeff@fd.ulisboa.pt.

Decisions about selected working papers will be revealed on 17th June 2022.

Conference (hybrid or only virtually, depending on organizational conditions) on 4th July 2022.

Final version of the paper to be submitted on 31st July 2022.