5912391: C24 Sustainable Finance

Beschreibung

In Sustainable Finance, students will learn about the corporate sustainability, its measurement and applications in corporate finance and asset pricing. The course will be taught based on contemporary academic studies. Students are required to explain inferences from different methodological approaches in this research field. Practical impli-cations of theoretical and empirical studies are being discussed. The course topics change from semester to semes-ter, but the course usually addresses the following topics:

• Current and past developments in sustainable finance
• Definition, measurement and critical evaluation of corporate sustainability
• ESG data, data providers and materiality
• Regulatory frameworks and initiatives
• Research methods in sustainable finance
• Sustainable financial products

Lernergebnisse

After successful completion of the course, students will

Professional competence

• understand and discuss past and current developments in sustainable finance.
• acquire a basic understanding of Sustainable EU-Regulation.
• design sustainable financial products based on selected nonfinancial KPIs.
• evaluate the financial and nonfinancial performance of equity portfolios.

• understand the structure, challenges and alternative providers of ESG data.
• understand research designs in sustainable finance studies.

• collaborate in teams and engage in discussions with other students and the faculty.

• engage in critical thinking and in-class discussions.
• summarize empirical academic studies and synthesise the primary implications for finance practitioners.

• identify the appropriate technologies to support practical work and academic inquiry in sustainable fi-nance.

Lehrmethoden

• The course involves interactive lectures and group presentations and discussions

Voraussetzungen (inhaltlich)

• Basic knowledge of financial products and financial markets.

Literatur

• Students are provided with the lecture slides and supplementary material (e.g., selected journal articles).