KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
Professor Johan Sulaeman
Director, Sustainable and Green Finance Institute, National University of Singapore
Dean’s Chair, NUS Business School

Sponsored by the Global Finance Journal, Elsevier, and Sasin School of Management

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS: Professor Piyachart Phiromswad and Nophea Sasaki
Sasin School of Management

The 2025 meetings of the Conference on “CSR, the Economy and Financial Market” will be held, for the first time, at Sasin Graduate Institute, Thailand’s highest ranked business school, located in the heart of Bangkok, November 6-7, 2025. The conference is designed to encourage and promote research and dialogue regarding the economic effects of corporate social responsibility, CSR.

The 2025 meeting will be devoted to presentations of academic papers dealing with CSR and Sustainable Finance. It will also include keynote addresses, panel-discussions and presentations by key corporate executives, policy and investment professionals.

We invite the submission of theoretical or empirical papers that deal with the effects of CSR from a purely economic, financial markets, or managerial perspective. Papers dealing with CSR reporting and disclosure are also invited. At the author's discretion, accepted papers will qualify for a fast-track review for possible publication in a special issue of the Global Finance Journal with the journal's submission fee waived.

We also encourage submissions of papers by young and emerging scholars. Authors of the top five papers submitted by PhD candidates will be granted registration fee waivers for attending the conference.

TOPICS: The topics relevant to the conference include but are not limited to theoretical and empirical papers dealing with:
- Climate risk and pricing
- Carbon pricing
- Role of financial markets, banks, institutional investors in CSR
- Effects of CSR on valuation, performance, funding and capital structure
- Corporate governance and CSR
- Risk management and CSR
- CSR reporting and disclosure
- CSR activities and the economy, both at the macro and micro levels.

ORGANIZATION: The conference is scheduled to take place on the campus of Sasin Graduate Institute, Bangkok, Thailand. The conference will have a workshop format to allow for extensive discussion and feedback. Accordingly, only a small number of papers will be accepted for presentation.

IMPORTANT DATES:
Deadline for submission of papers is July 15, 2025.
Accept/reject decisions will be sent by August 15, 2025.

PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: All submissions and communications should be sent to sasingfj2025@sasin.edu

Original and completed manuscripts in English, and in PDF format, should begin with a title page that includes the names, e-mail addresses, and affiliations of all authors as well as a 200-word abstract and key words. A blinded copy of the paper should also accompany the submission in the form of a PDF file.

REGISTRATION: The authors of accepted papers, as well as non-presenting participants, will be required to register for the conference at https://www.sasin.edu/sasingfj2025

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Amir Amel-Zadeh, Oxford University
Jill Atkins, Cardiff University
Tony Berrada, University of Geneva
Giorgio Bertinetti, Ca’Foscari University
Reza Bradrania, University of South Australia
Pattanaporn Chatjuthamard, Sasin School of Management
Mengyuan Chen, Cardiff University
Pierre Chollet, Montpellier University
Otgontssetseg Erhemjamts, Bentley University
Arman Eshraghi, Cardiff University
Iraj Fooladi, Dalhousie University
Sadok El Ghoul, Univerity of Albetra
Izidin El Kalak, Cardiff University
Stuart Gillan, University of Georgia
Martin Glaum, WHU, Otto Beisheim School
Omrane Guedhami, Univ. of South Carolina
Bilal Hafeez, Cardiff University
Axel Haller, Universität Regensburg
Souad Lajili-Jarjir, Univ. Paris Est Creteil
Giovanna Michelon, University of Bristol
Svetlana Mira, Cardiff University
Lin Peng, City University of New York
Sébastien Pouget, Toulouse School of Econ
Oksana Pryschepa, Cardiff University
Lukas Roth, University of Alberta
Pattarake Sarajoti, Sasin School of Management
Henri Servaes, London Business School
Yoko Shirasu, Aoyama Gakuin University
Takafumi Sasaki, Chuo University
Onur Tosun, Cardiff University
Sirimon Treepongkaruna, Sasin School of Management
Aaron Yoon, Northwestern University
Burcin Yurtoglu, WHU, Otto Beisheim School