Chair Chair in Sustainable Finance

Sustainable Finance conference

The Chair and Research Programme in Sustainable Finance, funded by the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Environment, Climate, and Sustainable Development, organises a yearly Conference in Sustainable Finance at the University of Luxembourg. Top-notch, international researchers come to Luxembourg to present their research in sustainable finance.

The topics discussed at the conference include, for example, firm-level management of ESG-related challenges, expected rates of returns and risks of ESG investing, the power of divestments to have an impact on the affected firms and the impact of ESG disclosure on mutual funds.

The conference is split into two parts. While the first part is fully academically oriented and follows the standard format of academic conferences, the second part is open to the general public and has the goal to share knowledge with the financial industry in Luxembourg. The later part takes place at the Banque de Luxembourg, includes keynote presentations from distinguished academics and concludes with a panel discussion on a dedicated question in Sustainable Finance.

Past events

Chair impact

  • 16 Nov 2023

    “Academia meets Industry” conference on “Pricing Disasters: financial impact of climate risk”
    Event jointly organised with PWC

  • 05 Oct 2023

    “What is the role of women’s leadership in the transition to net zero?”
    Webinar jointly organised with the Luxembourg Sustainable Finance Initiative

  • 11 May 2023

    “Putting the S into the spotlight: fostering human rights through sustainable investments”
    Webinar jointly organised with the Luxembourg Sustainable Finance Initiative

  • 18 Apr 2023

    “Academia meets Industry” conference on “Next stage of ESG: Are private assets taking over?”
    Event jointly organised with PWC

  • 24 Jan 2023

    “Strategies and Best Practices for an Effective Investor Engagement”
    Webinar jointly organised with the Luxembourg Sustainable Finance Initiative

  • November 2022

    Sustainable Investing: Cutting through the Noise
    From he Academia Meets Industry Series with EY Luxembourg

  • July 2022

    1st Conference in Sustainable Finance at the University of Luxembourg with keynotes
    By Lubos Pastor (University of Chicago) and Stefano Giglio (Yale University).  

  • May 2022

    Squaring the Circular Economy: Investment challenges and opportunities
    From the Academia Meets Industry Series with EY Luxembourg 

  • March 2022

    Webinar on “Climate Risk Measurement: Regulatory Ambition versus Practical Feasibility”
    Organised by the University of Luxembourg and LSFI

  • November 2021

    Sustainable Real Estate and Impact Investing: Exploring two important ESG challenges
    From the Academia Meets Industry Series with EY Luxembourg 

  • November 2021

    Webinar on “Do we need a social taxonomy?”
    Organised by the University of Luxembourg, LSFI and SPTF

  • March 2021

    Sustainable Finance: Sounding good or doing good?
    From the Academia Meets Industry Series with EY Luxembourg

  • Halling M., Pagano M., Randl O., Zechner J., 2008, “Where is the Market? Evidence from Cross-Listings in the U.S.”, Review of Financial Studies, 21 (2), pp. 725-761.
  • Dangl, T., Halling, M., 2012, Predictive Regressions with Time-Varying Coefficients, Journal of Financial Economics, 106 (1), pp. 157-181.
  • Halling M., Moulton, P. C., Panayides, M., 2013, “Volume Dynamics and Multimarket Trading”, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 48 (2), pp. 489-518.
  • Cremers, M., Halling, M., Weinbaum, D., 2015, Aggregate Jump and Volatility Risk in the Cross-Section of Stock Returns, The Journal of Finance, 70 (2), pp. 577-614.
  • Halling, M., Pichler, P., Stomper, A., 2016, The Politics of Related Lending, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 51 (01), 333-358.
  • Halling, M., Yu, J., Zechner, J., 2016, Leverage Dynamics over the Business Cycle, Journal of Financial Economics, 122 (1), pp. 21-41.
  • Halling, M., Yu, J., Zechner, J., 2020, How Did COVID-19 Affect Firms’ Access to Public Capital Markets?, Review of Corporate Finance Studies, 9 (3), pp. 501-533.
  • Cooper, M., Halling, M., Yang, W., 2021, The Persistence of Fee Dispersion among Mutual Funds, Review of Finance, 25 (2), pp. 365-404. (media coverage: WSJ expert blog, 2016; Barrons, 2016; New York Times, 2017).

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