Conference on Biodiversity in Finance and Accounting 2025
Co-organized by Prof. Zacharias Sautner in collaboration with Goethe University Frankfurt and the Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE
The Conference on Biodiversity in Finance and Accounting is co-organized by Prof. Zacharias Sautner in collaboration with Goethe University Frankfurt and the Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE.
As ecosystems face unprecedented challenges due to human behavior, the economic implications of biodiversity loss demand a deeper understanding in various fields in finance and accounting. How can financial systems, investment and financing decisions, and accounting standards respond to the challenges imposed by declining biodiversity? How can the protection and restoration of ecosystems be monetized? The conference aims to bring together novel scientific contributions from various perspectives and to stimulate scientific discussions on these and other questions. Therefore, we solicit empirical and theoretical papers in research fields spanning finance and accounting.
Keynote speakers:
- Johannes Stroebel, David S. Loeb Professor of Finance at New York University, NBER, CEPR, CESifo
- Klement Tockner, Professor for Ecosystem Science at Goethe University and Director General of Senckenberg – Leibniz Institution for Biodiversity and Earth System Research, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Conference Date
Date: 24-25 July 2025
Location: Frankfurt
Call for Papers
Those wishing to present a paper at the conference should submit by 31 March, 2025 via e-mail. Please send full-length papers to biodiversity@finance.uni-frankfurt.de. Decisions regarding acceptance will be made by 30 April, 2025, the final version of accepted papers must be received by 30 June, 2025.
Deadline for submission: 31 March, 2025
Scientific committee:
- Tobias Berg, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE, CEPR
- Matthias Breuer, Columbia University, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
- Florian Heeb, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE
- Katharina Hombach, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
- Thomas Rauter, University of Chicago, University of Zurich (UZH)
- Anna Rohlfing-Bastian, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
- Zacharias Sautner, University of Zurich (UZH), Swiss Finance Institute (SFI)
- Alexander Wagner, University of Zurich (UZH), Swiss Finance Institute (SFI), CEPR, ECGI
