Social & Sustainable Finance Chair – Activities

Presentation

Academic articles

Cho, C.H., Senn, J., Sobkowiak, M. 2021. Sustainability at stake during Covid-19: Exploring the role of accounting in addressing environmental crises. Critical Perspectives on Accounting.
Hoang T., Przychodzen J., Przychodzen W., Segbotangni E. 2021. Environmental transparency and performance: Does the corporate governance matter? Environmental and Sustainability Indicators, 10, 101123.
Cozarenco, A., & Szafarz, A. (2020). The regulation of prosocial lending: Are loan ceilings effective?. Journal of Banking & Finance, 105979.
Hoang, T. H. V., Przychodzen, W., Przychodzen, J., & Segbotangni, E. A. (2020). Does it pay to be green? A disaggregated analysis of US firms with green patents. Business Strategy and the Environment, 29(3), 1331-1361.
Bourlès, R., Cozarenco, A. (2018). Entrepreneurial motivation and business performance: evidence from a French Microfinance Institution. Small Business Economics, 51, 943–963 (2018).

Working papers

Hoang T., Segbotangni E.A. & Lahiani A. 2020. Does ESG disclosure transparency help mitigate the Covid-19 pandemic shock? An empirical analysis of listed firms in the UK. SSRN Working Paper, available at: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3738256

Professionnal articles

The Conversation, 05/11/2020, Thi Hong Van Hoang, Performance financière : Être vert est-il payant en temps de crise ?
The Conversation, 22/11/2020, Anastasia Cozarenco, Microcrédit : même bien intentionnée, la réglementation peut éloigner des objectifs sociaux.
EconomieMatin, 01/09/2020, Thi Hong Vân Hoang, La finance responsable comme une solution à la crise du Covid-19.
EFMA, 02/07/2020, Thi Hong Vân Hoang, Interview with Boris Plantier from EFMA(European Financial Management Association): Responsible finance as a solution to the Covid-19 crisis.
Dirigeant.fr, 02/06/2020, Anastasia Cozarenco, Finance sociale : un modèle alternatif et résilient face aux nouvelles crises économiques ?
White paper: Crise du Covid : Comment gérer le changement avec efficacité et bienveillance ?
Webinar Covid-19: Déconfinement : comment bien gérer la reprise ?
Video Covid-19: Solidarité avec les entreprises régionales par le financement participatif.
Idéal Investisseur, 05/06/2020, Thi Hong Vân Hoang, La finance responsable comme une solution à la crise du Covid-19.

Teaching

As part of the Social & Sustainable Finance Chair, Montpellier Business School has created the Specialized Master of Science in Responsible Finance: Financial Inclusion, Microfinance and Social Innovation.

From the 2021-2022 academic year, the Social & Sustainable Finance Chair collaborates with the Master Program to coordinate and lead a new specialization in Sustainable Finance. This “Sustainable Finance” certificate will be open to students in the 3rd year of the Master Program and will allow students to prepare themselves, in an operational manner, for different professions in Sustainable Finance.

In addition to this MSc in Responsible Finance and this certificate in Sustainable Finance, the chairholders offer courses on Social & Sustainable Finance in the Master Program of Montpellier Business School and in other academic institutions, such as:

SRI Management and Python Programming, specialization in “Green Finance”, University of Montpellier, France.
Microfinance in developed countries, European Microfinance Program, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.
Microfinance: Theory and Practice, Master of Science Finance in the framework of the partnership between MBS and Xuewe Institute, China.

Events organized by the chair

Agora des savoirs : “La microfinance et le social business“, January 2020, Montpellier, France.

6th European Research Conference in Microfinance, co-organized by Montpellier Business School, University of Paris Dauphine and l’Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), June 2019, Paris, France.

Conference of Prof. Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize 2006, at Montpellier Business School, March 2019, Montpellier, France.

Participation in events, conferences, and seminars

Conference “Les Rencontres du Développement Durable” organized at Montpellier, at the invitation of the Institute Open Diplomacy, September 2020, Montpellier, France.
Conference “ASSA Annual Meeting 2019” organized by the American Economic Association, January 2019, Atlanta (GA), United States.