The 2024 Massey Sustainable Finance Conference

OVERVIEW

The conference cordially invites scholars to submit research papers for presentation consideration at the 2024 Massey Sustainable Finance Conference that will take place on 02-03 December 2024 in Auckland, New Zealand. The conference allows both online and in-person presentations.

This conference, organized by the Massey Sustainable Finance Cluster at School of Economics and Finance, Massey University, aims to bring together academics, practitioners, and policymakers sharing their research findings and discussing current and challenging issues in the crossroad of Finance and Sustainability. The conference is also an ideal occasion for all scholars around the world to present their research, exchange research ideas and experiences, and develop research projects.

The scientific and organizing committees welcome submissions in all topics that link Finance and Sustainability together for presentation at the conference no later than 30th August 2024 (early submission is highly encouraged).

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Sumit Agarwal, Low Tuck Kwong Distinguished Professor of Finance, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Sumit Agarwal is Low Tuck Kwong Distinguished Professor of Finance at the Business School and a Professor of Economics and Real Estate at the National University of Singapore. He is the Managing Director of Sustainable and Green Finance Institute at NUS. He is also the President of Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research .

In the past, he has held positions as a Professor of Finance at the Business School, Georgetown University. Before that he was a senior financial economist in the research department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and prior to joining the Chicago Fed, he was a senior vice president and credit risk management executive in the Small Business Risk Solutions Group of Bank of America.

Sumit’s research interests include issues relating to household sustainablity, financial institutions, household finance, behavioral finance, and real estate markets. He has published over one hundred and twenty five research articles in economics and finance journals among others. Additionally, he has co-written six books titled Why We Feel Blue When the Air is Grey , Kiasunomics 3, Introduction to Household Financial Management , Kiasunomics 2, Household Finance: A Functional Approach , and Kiasunomics , and also co-edited two collected volumes titled Impact of COVID-19 on Asian Economies and Policy Responses, and Household Credit Usage: Personal Debt and Mortgages. He writes regular op-ed’s in the Straits Times and is featured on various media outlets like the CNA, BBC, CNBC, and Fox on issues relating to finance, banking, and real estate markets. Sumit’s research is widely cited in leading newspapers and magazines like the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Economist, and the U.S Presidents Report to Congress. He also runs a Podcast on household financial decision making called Kiasunomics.

Paul Conway, Director of Economics/Chief Economist, Reserve Bank of New Zealand, New Zealand

Paul Conway became the Reserve Bank’s Director of Economics and Chief Economist in May 2022. He joined the Reserve Bank from BNZ where he had been Chief Economist since January 2021.

Before joining BNZ Paul spent 7 years as the Director of Economics and Research at the New Zealand Productivity Commission. Much of Paul’s work at the Commission was focused on firm-level productivity and understanding the obstacles New Zealand businesses face in using technology to improve performance.

Paul has extensive international experience and has previously worked at the OECD and with the World Bank. Paul initially started his career at the Reserve Bank as an economist after studying at Victoria of University of Wellington and Otago University.

Joanna (Jo) Kelly, Chief Executive, Centre for Sustainable Finance - Toitū Tahua, New Zealand

Jo has delivered cross-continent sustainability initiatives between some of the world’s best known business leaders, including the B Team, a global business leadership collective. She has previously been a board member of B Lab AANZ, the non-profit organisation that supports the Australasian community of certified B Corps and the NZ Impact Investing Network. Prior to joining the Centre Jo spent four years with Deloitte NZ. Jo was a member of the Sustainable Finance Forum that developed the 2030 Roadmap for Action.

TOPICS

The scientific and organizing committee welcome submissions in all topics which represent crossroads of Finance and Sustainability. The topics of the conference include, but not limited to:

Artificial intelligence and machine learning applications in Sustainable Finance
Alternative data on firms' digital transformation
Behavioral Finance/Economics and its implications to climate transition
Blue economy
Carbon market and carbon credit
Carbon price forecasting techniques
Circular economy
Corporate Social Responsibility
Climate Finance
Climate risks: assessment and management
Climate transition and portfolio management
Cryptocurrency and digital finance interactions with Sustainable Finance
Diversity, equity and inclusion in Finance
Digital finance, Fintech, and sustainability
Environmental, Social and Governance
Financial markets and climate transition
Green Finance
Green Finance and energy security
(Renewable) Energy Finance
Renewable Energy and Sustainability
Sustainable Finance and Accounting

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

SPECIAL ISSUES

Special issue of Energy Economics, titled “Impacts of Geopolitical Conflicts on Regional Energy Security and Consequences for the Global Economy” under the Guest-editorship of Assoc. Prof. Hung Do, Prof. Duc Khuong Nguyen, and Prof. Russell Smyth. Submission deadline: 31st December 2024.

Special issue of Journal of Forecasting, titled “Forecasting carbon prices in an integrated market network” under the Guest-editorship of Assoc. Prof. Hung Do, Dr. Linh H. Nguyen, and Dr. Thomas Walther. Submission deadline: 28th February 2025.

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