Conference theme
The conference will bring together leading academics with practitioners and policymakers to discuss recent research on a broad array of topics on sustainable finance. The first conference day will feature keynote presentations and panels with leading scholars and practitioners. The program includes keynote panels by:

• Harrison Hong, Columbia Business School, 
• Alex Edmans, London Business School

The second conference day has a standard academic format with presentations of frontier research papers, discussant comments and general discussion. 

Call for papers
For the second day of the conference, we invite authors to submit high-quality research on financial and economic issues relating to sustainability and finance, including (but not limited to) such topics as: 

• Stakeholders and sustainability: the purpose of business
• Corporate social responsibility & sustainable governance
• Sustainable investment and entrepreneurship in the innovation economy
• Impact investing
• Intersections of finance and labor sustainability
• Climate and environmental risk management
• Sustainability in gig economy models of the firm
• Utility over externalities in financial decision-making
• Sustainability in financial systems: stability and crises 
• Socially responsible investment & sustainable indexing 

Both empirical and theoretical papers are welcome. SHoF-MISUM will provide accommodation as well as reimbursement for reasonable travel expenses for presenting authors and discussants.

Paper submission
Interested authors should e-mail their paper in Acrobat PDF format to Elisabeth Kempe, (elisabeth.kempe@hhs.se) no later than March, 1, 2018.

Attendees
SHoF invites interested researchers, journalists, and practitioners to attend the conference. If you are interested in attending, please send an e-mail to Elisabeth Kempe, (elisabeth.kempe@hhs.se) to reserve a seat. There is no fee for the conference. However, attendance is limited and will be allocated on a first-come, first-serve basis. 

Organizing committee
Adair Morse (UC Berkeley, and NBER) and Bo Becker (Stockholm School of Economics and CEPR).

Sponsored by TORSTEN SÖDERBERGS STIFTELSE and MFS.

More details here.