13th Annual Conference: Sustainable and Green Finance (Joint with SGFIN)

13th Annual Conference
Sustainable and Green Finance
(Joint with SGFIN)

May
2026

Monday

Monitoring, Enforcement, and Environmental Outcomes
Chair: Guojun HE (University of Hong Kong and ABFER)

Venue: Cuscaden

2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Strategic Capture of Monitors: Evidence from Pollution Control in China

Raymond FISMAN (Boston University)
Yongxiang WANG (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
Naide YE* (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

Discussant:
Lin YANG (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Guangzhou)

Conference Paper

3:00 pm – 3:30 pm

Break

3:30 pm – 4:30 pm

Under the Spotlight: Pollution Dynamics Around Corporate Site Visits

Yuchen WEI (Hong Kong University)
Fujing XUE (Sun Yat-Sen University)
Bohui ZHANG (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen and ABFER)
Xiaofeng ZHAO* (Lingnan University)

Discussant:
Qiang CHENG (Singapore Management University and ABFER)

Conference Paper

4:30 pm – 5:30 pm

When Trade Burns the Air: The Welfare Consequences of Agricultural Trade Liberalization

Fangyuan PENG (University of Hong Kong)
Guojun HE (University of Hong Kong and ABFER)
Yuhang PAN* (Peking University)

Discussant:
Mark JACOBSEN (University of California, San Diego)

Conference Paper

May
2026

Tuesday

Climate Risk and Corporate Incentives
Chair: TBC

Venue: Tanglin I & II

9:00 am – 10:00 am

Carbon Risk in Production Networks

Shubo KOU (Nankai University)
Kai LI* (Tsinghua University)
Minghao LI (Peking University)
Wu ZHU (Tsinghua University)

Discussant:
Chao YING (Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Conference Paper

10:00 am – 10:30 am

Break

10:30 am – 11:30 am

Impact Trickles Down: Exit, Engagement and Firm-Stakeholder Relationships

Briana CHANG* (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Harrison HONG (Columbia University and ABFER)

Discussant:
Dan LUO (Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Conference Paper

11:30 am – 12:30 pm

Environmental-Unfriendly Tax Avoidance

Zhimin CHEN (Nanyang Technological University)
Martin JACOB (University of Navarra)
Xiang ZHENG* (Nanyang Technological University)

Discussant:
Arzi ADBI (National University of Singapore)

Conference Paper

* Presenter. Program is subjected to change. Updated 25 March 2026.

Session Format

Three papers will be presented during each session. Each paper has 25 minutes for presentation, 20 minutes for discussant remarks, and 15 minutes for Q&A. There will be a 30 minutes break after the first paper.

Contact Information

Program Directors	Conference Organizers
Guojun HE (University of Hong Kong and ABFER) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Johan SULAEMAN (National University of Singapore, SGFIN and ABFER) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.	Po-Hsuan HSU (National Tsing Hua University and ABFER) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Qifei ZHU (National University of Singapore) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Program Directors

Conference Organizers

Guojun HE (University of Hong Kong and ABFER)
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Johan SULAEMAN (National University of Singapore, SGFIN and ABFER)
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Po-Hsuan HSU (National Tsing Hua University and ABFER)
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Qifei ZHU (National University of Singapore)
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