Sustainable Finance and ESG Investment
A special issue of Journal of Risk and Financial Management (ISSN 1911-8074). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainability and Finance".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2025 | Viewed by 1369
Special Issue Editors
Interests: international financial markets and investments; market microstructure; time series analysis; futures and options; corporate finance; risk management
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: corporate finance; corporate governance; bank loan contracting; CSR and sustainable finance; China financial market; institutional investor behavior; household finance
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Sustainable finance refers to financial services that take environmental, social, and governance (ESG) considerations into investment decisions to promote sustainable economic growth and long-term financial stability. Finance managers and investors are increasingly incorporating sustainability risks in their investment processes. Investors use ESG to evaluate a company’s long-term corporate sustainability and risk-return profile. Companies that have high ratings on environmental factors (e.g., climate change and resource use), social factors (e.g., inequality and inclusiveness), and governance (e.g., board and management diversity and execution remuneration) may have lower financial risks and higher longer-term financial stability.
This Special Issue encourages papers examining, but not limited to, the following topics:
- The role of public policy in motivating investment in sustainability;
- The relations between ESG scores and firm performance;
- The complex relations between ESG issues and financial markets;
- Metrics of ESG scores;
- Investor and manager motivations for ESG investing;
- Challenges and opportunities of ESG impacts through financial services;
- Country cultural differences in ESG investment;
- Shareholder activism on ESG issues;
- Sustainable finance that considers the investment chain, asset classes, and different business expertise;
- Fintech in sustainable finance;
- Current government regulations and politics of sustainable finance and ESG.
This Special Issue publishes empirical and theoretical research articles that greatly impact Sustainable Finance and ESG.
Prof. Dr. Yiuman Tse
Dr. Weiqiang Tan
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sustainable finance
- ESG
- investment in sustainability
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