In 2017, University of Liechtenstein successfully conducted the “Workshop Sustainable Finance” for the first time. In 2020, we would like to continue this success story by offering our fourth workshop on October 1st, 2020.

This workshop meets the rapidly increasing interest in financial products, which promote a transformation towards a sustainable society. Our aim is to bring together researchers in the field of sustainable finance as well as employees in financial services companies who want to deal with current research results and to identify emerging trends. With this platform we intend to intensify discussions between researchers and practitioners. Each paper presented will be discussed by an academic discussant as well as by a discussant from practice, offered by our partner VP Bank.

With a Call for Papers we invited research oriented academics at universities (PhD students, lecturers, professors, etc.) as well as consulting firms, associations, market authorities, etc. to contribute with papers on sustainable issues in banking & finance. Analytical, theoretical and empirical papers are welcome. As an example, topics could be on sustainable investing & finance, ESG related finance, (social) Impact Investing, renewable energy finance, etc.

A selection committee has nominated the best of the submitted proposals and invited the authors to our workshop.

In the coming years, already implemented and under-paced regulatory projects will ensure that sustainability will severely affect business practices in general as well as actors and products of the financial industry. This workshop is designed to stimulate researchers, but also the financial practice, and provide guidance.