Category: Past Events
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May 3, 2024 – Financial market solutions for funding green transition and climate resilience
Date: May 3, 2024 Time: 8 a.m. Location: UC Santa Cruz main campus University Center, Alumni Room In-person workshop on Friday, May 3rd, 2024, UC Santa Cruz main campusOrganized by UCSC’s Center for Analytical Finance (CAFIN) with support from The Center for Coastal Climate Resilience (CCCR) and UC Investments Climate change is already affecting our…
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April 12, 2024 – Fintech Conference | The Evolution of Fintech: AI, Payments, and Financial Inclusion
Date: April 12, 2024 Time: 9 a.m. PDT Location: Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco San Francisco, California Hosted by The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, the Lam Larsen FinTech Initiative at San Francisco State University, and the Center for Analytical Finance at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Learn more about the…
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November 5, 2021 – 9:00am – Navigating the Road to Net Zero
Downloads: Video, Downloads Abstract: As drivers of climate action enter the fourth decade of what has become a multi-stage race, Net Zero has emerged as the dominant organizing principle. Hundreds of corporations and investors worldwide, together responsible for assets in the tens of trillions of dollars, are lining-up for the UN Race to Zero. This latest…
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October 15, 2021 – Net Zero Carbon Portfolio Alignment
Video Downloads Abstract This talk will outline a simple and robust methodology for portfolio managers to align their portfolios with the carbon neutrality goals (Net Zero Targets) set out following the Paris Agreement in 2015. The approach is based on dynamically limiting the portfolio carbon footprint so that it satisfies a time-varying, science-based, carbon budget consistent…
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Speaker Series October 2, 2020 – October 1, 2021
October 1, 2021 Investors are Waking Up to Climate Risk Video, Summary Abstract:The severity of this summer’s extreme weather events is creating a new sense of urgency for action to achieve a net-zero global economy by mid-century to avoid the most severe impacts of climate change. To achieve this, global carbon emissions must decline rapidly…
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April 16, 2021 at 9:00am – Jim Dowd: Blockchain and Finance
Blockchain and Finance Video & Blockchain and Finance Slides Speaker: Jim Dowd, CEO, North Capital Investment Technology Jim Dowd is Founder and CEO of North Capital Private Securities (NCPS), a registered broker-dealer focused on the distribution, secondary trading, clearing and custody of exempt securities, and North Capital Investment Technology (NCIT) which provides technology to facilitate exempt securities offerings by offering compliance…
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Quarterly Lecture Series – Fall 2013 – Fall 2019
Fall 2019 Professor Vojislav Maksimovic: The Rise of Star Firms: Intangible Capital and Competition:Abstract: There is a divergence in the returns of top-performing firms and the rest of the economy, especially in industries that rely on a skilled labor force, raising concerns of their market power. We show that the divergence is explained by the…
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Workshops 2014-2017
2017 December 7-8 – Market Design and Regulation in the Presence of High-Frequency TradingThe goal of the conference was to provide a platform for discussing advances in research related to market design and regulation of high-frequency trading, striking a balance between academic rigor and policy relevance. The conference schedule is here and the presentation abstracts…