ZEW Conference on Ageing and Sustainable Finance (25/26 April 2024)
Call for PapersZEW Mannheim is pleased to announce a conference addressing aging and sustainable finance on 25 and 26 April 2024. This two-day conference creates an inspiring platform for in-depth debates on the impact of demographic change and climate change on financial markets as well as on the various actors in this field. Furthermore, the policy implications of recent research findings will be discussed, and new research questions arising from policy responses will be highlighted. The keynotes will be presented by Professor Axel Börsch-Supan from the Munich Research Institute for the Economics of Aging and SHARE Analyses (MEA) and Professor Tobias Berg from Goethe University Frankfurt.
We invite empirical and theoretical submissions with a microeconomic focus on all aspects related to ageing and sustainable finance. Please submit full papers only to FMconference@zew.de no later than 15 January 2024.
Topics may include, but are not limited to
- Household financial behaviour such as saving and dis-saving, investment, and insurance behaviour
- “Green preferences”, sustainable financial literacy and financial decisions
- Risk-management and investment strategies of pension funds and insurance companies
- Bank business models, bank funding and lending
- Financial market barriers to a sustainable economy
- Effects on monetary policy and its pass-through to the real economy
