Sustainable Investment and Capital Markets
A special issue of Journal of Risk and Financial Management (ISSN 1911-8074).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 March 2026 | Viewed by 11
Special Issue Editor
Interests: remittances; energy; green transition; investments; financial management; FinTech; banking; corporate governance; financial sector development in transition economies
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This call for papers aims to bring together leading academics, practitioners, and policy-makers and provide an opportunity to present state-of-the-art research on sustainable investments and capital markets. We solicit papers in the following areas, but other related areas will also be considered:
- Sustainable and impact investing.
- Financial intermediaries and their role in sustainable investment.
- Regulation and policy in sustainable investment.
- Sustainable investment and the energy transition.
- Fintech and sustainable investment.
- Artificial intelligence in sustainable investment.
- Behavioural finance and sustainable investment decision-making.
- Measuring and valuing social and environmental impact in investment.
- Sustainability reporting and disclosure in capital markets.
- Sustainable investment integration and performance measurement in investment portfolios.
- Green bonds and other sustainable debt instruments.
- Socially responsible investment funds and ETFs.
- Sustainable real-estate investing and green-building certification.
- Corporate social responsibility and impact assessment.
- Green-, social- and impact-washing.
- Can sustainable securities meet the growing sustainable investment needs?
- What is policy-makers' role in promoting green, impact, and sustainable investment?
Dr. Jakhongir Kakhkharov
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- green investing
- sustainable investment decision-making
- greenwashing
- carbon footprint
- green bonds
- impact investing
- clean energy
- ethical investing
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