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LSE announces launch of an Initiative in Sustainable Finance
GSoS Launch Report showcases first six months of sustainability action
First funding awards announced from the Global Sustainability Research fund at LSE
Financing a Sustainable Future Podcast
LSE announces launch of Blended Finance Lab
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The effectiveness of sustainable investing
Fostering engagement between practitioners and academics to develop a shared understanding of the opportunities and limits of sustainable investing.
Latest Publications
Polarization, Purpose and Profit
We present a model in which firms compete for workers who value nonpecuniary job attributes, such as purpose, sustainability, political stances, or...
When Private Firms Provide Public Goods: The Allocation of CSR Spending
This paper studies how firms allocate their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) expenditures to inform the welfare effects of corporate...
Corporate Social Responsibility Committee: International Evidence
We provide worldwide large-sample evidence of a recent innovation in corporate governance: the voluntary creation of a separate board committee to...
Private Companies: The Missing Link on The Path to Net Zero
A global consensus is growing on the contribution that corporations and finance must make towards the net-zero transition in line with the Paris...
Financing a Sustainable Future Podcast
The Financing a Sustainable Future Podcast is a series of discussions with leading LSE Academics on their research in Sustainable Finance. The discussions are intended to bring research findings to practitioners in a way that is comprehensible and actionable, while informing them of the state of the art in research in the sustainable finance field.
Tom Gosling, Professor in Practice at the Financial Markets Group, hosts the series, interviewing authors of academic papers to uncover their key insights.
To listen to the Podcast and read the articles, click below.
