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Great to host Cláudia Custódio at the @jbs.cam.ac.uk Finance Seminar yesterday! She presented her insightful paper "Credit Access and Market Access," (with Hansman & Mendes), finding credit guarantees help SMEs overcome sunk entry costs. For further details: 👉 lnkd.in/eTA7aCrn

Delighted to host Maxime Bonelli at our Finance Seminar Series at @CambridgeJBS today.

He presented his interesting paper titled “Divine Catalysts: Religion and Portfolio Choices” (with Pulak Ghosh, S. Lakshmi Naaraayanan & Purnoor Tak). More here: 👉 lnkd.in/edABvddC

When fewer shareholders vote, each vote matters more.

New CJBS & CERF blog from my joint work with Vikas Agarwal, Peter Limbach & Honglin Ren: markets value voting rights more when turnout is low, since each vote has greater impact on control.

🔗 lnkd.in/ejx6miED

Climate risk, bank lending and monetary policy - Cambridge Judge Business School Connect with Cambridge Judge! Explore our full calendar of upcoming events, learn about our programmes and connect with world-class speakers.

Delighted to host Andrea Polo at our Finance Seminar Series at @CambridgeJBS today! Andrea presents his timely paper, "Climate Risk, Bank Lending and Monetary Policy," co-authored with Altavilla, Boucinha & Pagano.
For further details: 👇 www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/events/clima...

Honoured to receive an Honorable Mention for the Moskowitz Prize 2025 for our paper "Coordinated Engagements" (w/ Elroy Dimson & Xi Li). 🏆

kellogg.northwestern.edu/academics-rese…

#SustainableFinance | #MoskowitzPrize2025 | #CoordinatedEngagements | #ESG | #Stewardship

Great to host Thomas Lambert at CJBS for our Finance Seminar Series!

Thomas presented "(In)dependent Central Banks," discussing how political motives in central bank appointments affect independence & economic outcomes.

👉 More details: lnkd.in/duhx7_6M

Investor Activism and the Green Transition - Cambridge Judge Business School Connect with Cambridge Judge! Explore our full calendar of upcoming events, learn about our programmes and connect with world-class speakers.

Pleased to host Sebastian Gryglewicz at our Finance Seminar Series @jbs.cam.ac.uk. He presented "Investor Activism and the Green Transition", exploring how activist investors drive firms’ green transitions and tackle free-rider challenges.

More details: 👉 www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/events/owner...

Funding the Fittest? Pricing Climate Transition Risk in the Corporate Bond Market - Cambridge Judge Business School Connect with Cambridge Judge! Explore our full calendar of upcoming events, learn about our programmes and connect with world-class speakers.

Hosted Yasmine van der Straten at @jbs.cam.ac.uk Finance Seminar. Her talk on pricing climate transition risk in corporate bonds showed how green innovation cuts capital costs. Details: 👉 www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/events/fundi... #ClimateFinance #SustainableInvesting

ECGC A one-day workshop bringing together scholars of Executive Compensation and other fields of Corporate Governance to discuss the latest developments in the field

I'm delighted to participate in the 7th Erasmus Corporate Governance Conference in Rotterdam on June 13th. Looking forward to insightful discussions!

Details: 👉 www.eur.nl/en/ese/event...

🎭 Our paper “Phantom of the Opera: ETF Shorting and Shareholder Voting” (w/ Evans, Moussawi & Young) is now out in Management Science.

ETF shorting leaves behind phantom shares—quietly affecting control by sidelining votes.

Read: lnkd.in/dgzpaG4h

#ETF | #PhantomShares

Delighted to participate in the GW4 Sustainable Finance Conference in Bath and present my paper “Coordinated Engagements” (with Dimson & Li) today.

Thanks to the organizers, my discussant, and an engaged audience.

Details below: 👇
www.bath.ac.uk/events/gw4-s...

📢 New version released: "Coordinated Engagements" (w/ Dimson & Li) - 🔗 ssrn.com/abstract=320...

Our research shows leadership is key in ESG investor collaboration. A two-tier strategy leads to success, improved firm performance & increased investor fund flows.

#Leadership

Our paper titled "Earnings and the Value of Voting Rights" (with Umit Gurun) is now an ECGI working paper: 👇
🔗 www.ecgi.global/publications...

Corporate Debt Structure Around the World - Cambridge Judge Business School Connect with Cambridge Judge! Explore our full calendar of upcoming events, learn about our programmes and connect with world-class speakers.

Delighted to host Stefano Rossi at our Finance Seminar Series at Cambridge Judge Business School today! Stefano presents his insightful paper, "Corporate Debt Structure Around the World.” For further details: 👇 www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/events/semin...

Pleased to share the revised version of my paper, 𝗘𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗩𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗥𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀 (w/ Umit Gurun). We find a significant negative relationship between the voting premium and earnings surprises. Full paper is here: ssrn.com/abstract=279...

2025 Consortium on Asset Management The theme for this year’s workshop will be Asset Management. We particularly encourage papers within this theme that focus on: corporate governance and voting, financial market history, traditional and alternative asset classes, mutual funds, hedge funds, and responsible investing.

FMA International - CEAM Cambridge 2025 Consortium on Asset Management is LIVE in Christ’s College Cambridge!

🔗 Check out the event details here: fma.org/cam2025

#FMA2025 | #Finance | #Cambridge | #CEAM | #LiveEvent

Excited to visit Audencia Business School on Dec 12 to present my paper "Coordinated Engagements" (w/ Elroy Dimson & Xi Li): papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Thanks to Carine Girard-Guerraud for the kind invitation. Looking forward to engaging with faculty & students!

#ESG | #SustainableFinance

Great to discuss the role of finance in stewarding biodiversity & natural resources at #NatureTech2024 in London today, with fellow panelists Chris Dodwell, Gemma Corrigan, Therese Niklasson, and moderator Siobhan Archer. Further details: 👇 events.naturealpha.ai

#Nature | #ESG

Heading to London for NatureTech Finance 2024, organized by NatureAlpha! Excited to join a panel to discuss stewardship and biodiversity—key areas for a sustainable future. Details below: 👇 events.naturealpha.ai

#Biodiversity | #Stewardship |#Sustainability