"Sustainability and social inequality are ‘grand challenges’ with a strong impact on companies and investors. The dominant theories and institutions of corporate governance present significant constraints on the capacity of practitioners, including company and fund managers, to engage in a timely and successful way with these grand challenges."
The paper delves into the intertwining of financial institutions and environmental concerns, particularly climate change and biodiversity loss. It introduces a dual framework based on 'impact' and 'ri
The paper explores optimal insurance contracts using decision makers' preferences, combining expected loss with a deviation measure like Gini coefficient or standard deviation. It reveals that using e
“I show that, during a normal economic period, rather than having a disciplining effect, disclosure leads to banks increasing risk taking, consistent with banks facing pressure to offset the costs of