Videos of the MIT GCFP 8th Annual Conference

Introductions by GCFP Director Deborah Lucas and C.S. Venkatakrishnan, Barclays CEO (formerly Head of Global Markets and Co-President)
Keynote Address by Sarah Breeden, Executive Director, Financial Stability Strategy and Risk, Bank of England

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First Principles: What role can and should financial regulation play in addressing the environment?
Moderator: James Poterba (MIT)
Panelists: Robert Litterman (Kepos Capital), Daniel Schrag (Harvard University), James Stock (Harvard University)

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Corporate and investor perspectives
Moderator: Ross Levine (UC Berkeley)
Panelists: Alan Haywood (bp plc), Richard Manley (CPP Investments), Brian Reilly (Barclays)

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Innovations in measurement and theory, Part 1
Chair: Luigi Zingales (University of Chicago)
1. “On ESG Investing: Heterogeneous Preferences, Information, and Asset Prices” by Itay Goldstein (University of Pennsylvania), Alexandr Kopytov (University of Hong Kong), Lin Shen (INSEAD), Haotian Xiang (Peking University)
2. “ESG Confusion and Stock Returns: Tackling the Problem of Noise” by Florian Berg (MIT), Julian F. Koelbel (MIT), Anna Pavlova (London Business School), Roberto Rigobon (MIT)
Discussant: Jonathan Parker (MIT)

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New market-based evidence
Chair: Gita Rao (MIT)
1. “The Real Effects of Environmental Activist Investing” by Lakshmi Naaraayanan (London Business School), Kunal Sachdeva (Rice University), VarunSharma (London Business School)
2. “Sustainability or Performance? Ratings and Fund Managers’ Incentives” by Nickolay Gantchev (Warwick Business School), Mariassunta Giannetti (Stockholm School of Economics), Rachel Li (University of Alabama)
3. “The low-carbon transition, climate commitments and firm credit risk” by Sante Carbone (Sveriges Riksbank), Margherita Giuzio (European Central Bank), Sujit Kapadia (European Central Bank), Johannes Sebastian Krämer (European Central Bank), Ken Nyholm (European Central Bank), Katia Vozian (European Central Bank)
Discussant: Marcin Kacperczyk (Imperial College London)

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Fireside Chat with Larry Fink, Chairman and CEO, BlackRock
Interviewer: Deborah Lucas (MIT)

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The EU’s green bond initiative
Moderator: John Sterman (MIT)
Presenter: Gert Jan Koopman (European Commission)

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Disclosures and metrics
Moderator: S.P. Kothari (MIT)
Panelists: Gita Bal (Fidelity International), David Curran (Paul, Weiss LLC), Cyrus Lotfipour (MSCI ESG Research), Laura Starks (University of Texas)

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Social discount rates revisited
Chair: Deborah Lucas (MIT)
1. “It’s time to fix our public discounting systems” by Frédéric Cherbonnier, Christian Gollier (both Toulouse School of Economics)
2. “The Social Discount Rate: Legal and Philosophical Underpinnings” by Kip Viscusi (Vanderbilt University)
3. “Choosing the Future: Markets, Ethics, and Rapprochement in Social Discounting” by Geoffrey Heal (Columbia University), Antony Millner (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Discussant: Robert Pindyck (MIT)

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Innovations in measurement and theory, Part 2
Chair: Robert Merton (MIT)
1. “Climate Stress Testing” by Richard Berner (New York University), Robert Engle (New York University), Hyeyoon Jung (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
2. “Measuring ESG Return Premium in Equity Markets – the Right Way” by Arik Ben Dor, Jingling Guan, Yunpeng Sun (all Barclays)
Discussant: Andrew Lo (MIT)

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Young scholars forum
Chair: Jeffrey Meli (Barclays Investment Bank)
1. “Corporate ESG Profiles, Matching, and the Cost of Bank Loans” by David Shin (Indiana University)
2. “Policy Interaction and the Transition To Clean Technology” by Ghassane Benmir (London School of Economics), Josselin Roman (PSL Research University – Paris Dauphine)
3. “Underwater Underwriting: Bank Screening and Credit Rationing in Flood Zones” by Parinitha Sastri (MIT)

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