Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Grant Robertson rang the trading bell to signify the official opening of Otago Business School’s Te Taura Takata BNZ Bloomberg Markets Lab. otago.ac.nz/otagobulletin/…

The 12th SARN conference will be held at the Otago Business School on 02 September 2022 on the latest developments in the sustainability domain. Zoom link: otago.zoom.us/j/96073184401?… Password: 436422

We are looking forward to welcome all participants to the 3RD CEFGROUP CLIMATE FINANCE SYMPOSIUM Venue: Otago Business School, and via Zoom for online participants Registration Page: events.otago.ac.nz/2022-cef-group… Event Page: blogs.otago.ac.nz/cefg/call-for-… Program:blogs.otago.ac.nz/cefg/files/202…

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We welcome papers in all areas of Sustainable Finance and Accounting, such as, but not limited to, topics in climate finance, carbon markets, sustainable investing, greenwashing, sustainability disclosures, and net-zero commitments. blogs.otago.ac.nz/cefg/events/ce…

The meeting with the distinguished Minister for Climate Change, James Shaw served as a platform for us to present and share the profound value and insightful work conducted at the CEFGroup. blogs.otago.ac.nz/cefg/cefgroup-…

This paper document a positively significant (insignificant) relationship between the presence of a sustainability committee and waste generation (waste recycling). doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa…

This paper find that firms with higher institutional ownership are more likely to display higher earnings quality in lower discretionary accruals and lesser real activities manipulation. doi.org/10.1016/j.pacf…

This study reveals that the CSR mandate positively impacts SOCDS in India due to coercive pressures. dx.doi.org/10.1108/MEDAR-…

This paper reports a significant decrease in financial reporting timeliness following the new accounting standards regime. doi.org/10.1111/acfi.1…

Employing firm-level waste production data, this paper documents a significant negative relationship between board co-option and waste generation, suggesting that co-opted directors help firms reduce their waste. doi.org/10.1111/corg.1…

This paper finds a positive impact of overlapping committee membership and provide evidence that firms with overlapping committee membership have a lower cost of equity capital. doi.org/10.1016/j.pacf…

Responses from over 1000 New Zealand academics reveal that those who perceive their performance evaluation as outcomes- focused and process-focused are more likely to exhibit compliance-based behaviour. doi.org/10.1111/acfi.1…

Using high frequency data for U.S. industry indexes and various heterogeneous autoregressive (HAR) type and machine learning models, this paper shows that most industries are informative for future aggregate market volatility in out-of-sample tests. doi.org/10.1016/j.intf…

Our Climate and Energy Finance Group organizes its 5th Sustainable Finance and Reporting Symposium on 28-29 November 2024 at the Queenstown Resort College. Please submit your paper to [email protected] by 16 August 24.

The University of Otago School of Business hosts the 29th New Zealand Finance Colloquium on the 13th and 14th of February 2025. The colloquium committee invites papers from all finance subject areas to be submitted by December 2 at 5 p.m. 📷 nzfc.ac.nz/submission

The Department of Accountancy and Finance recently held an awards ceremony to recognise top performing students from 2023. Guest speaker, Giullia Gasparotto da Silva talked about her transition from Otago student to Deloitte recruit.

Arung Mayapada, PhD student at the Department of Accountancy and Finance, won the Commerce heat of the 2024 3MT with a $300 research grant as well as the chance to compete in the grand final on 15 August.

Submissions due this Friday ...

3MT® People’s Choice: an extrovert in disguise otago.ac.nz/news/newsroom/…