Publications

2025 

• Social and Sustainable Finance for Social Innovation and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Rosella Carè. IGI Global Scientific Publishing (2026)
• Simony as Strategy? The Role of Political Contributions in Managing ESG Engagement. Rosella Carè. Cerciello, M., Fatima, R., Taddeo, S.. Journal of Environmental Management (2025).   
• Exploring the landscape of green crowdfunding: Trends, themes, and insights from a bibliometric review. Rosella Carè. Cerciello, M., Fatima, R., Taddeo, S.. Finance Research Letters (2025).   
• Crowdfunding and sustainable development: A systematic review. Rosella Carè. Fatima, R., Agnese, P. Finance Research Letters (2025).   
• Driving positive social and environmental impacts through equity crowdfunding: evidence from social enterprises. Rosella Carè, Fatima, R., Carè, S.  (2025)  
• The Impact of Climate Change Risk on Retirement. The Society of Actuaries Research Institute. Mingyu Fang, Tony Wirjanto, David Saunders, and Minh Chau Nguyen. (2025)  

2024 

• Valuation of carbon emission allowance options under an open trading phase. Mingyu Fang, Ken Seng Tan, and Tony Wirjanto, Energy Economics (2024) 
• The impact of terrorist attacks and mass shootings on earnings management. Seda Oz, The British Accounting Review (2024) 
• Measuring Corporate Human Capital Disclosures: Lexicon, Code, and Research Opportunities, Elizabeth Demers, Victor Xiaoqi Wang, and Kean Wu, Journal of Information Systems (2024) 

2023 

• Social Impact Measurement: A Systematic Literature Review and Future Research Directions. Leah Feor, Amelia C. Clarke, Ilona Dougherty, World (2023) 
• Financial Reporting and Disclosure Practices in China. Mingyue Zhang, Hai Lu, and Jee-Eun Shin, Journal of Accounting and Economics (2023) 
• Sustainability in Private Capital Investing: A Systematic Literature Review. Majid Mirza, Truzaar Dordi, Pedro Alguindigue, Ryan Johnson, and  Olaf Weber,, Journal of Management and Sustainability (2023) 
• Textile waste in Ontario, Canada: Opportunities for reuse and recycling. Sabine Weber, Olaf Weber, Komal Habib, and Goretty Maria Dias, Resources, Conservation and Recycling, (2023) 
• Cost of Damage of Pluvial Flooding due to Climate Change: A Preliminary Assessment. Yogi Samoa and Tony Wirjanto, University of Waterloo (2023) 
• ESG information integration into portfolio optimization. Hao Cao and Tony Wirjanto. Journal of Risk Management in Financial Institutions (2023) 
• Municipal Sustainability and Climate Planning: A Study of 38 Canadian Local Governments’ Plans and Reports. Environments, Leah Feor, Dan Murray, Zachary Folger-Laronde and Amelia Clarke, Environments (2023) 
• How much finance is in climate finance? A bibliometric review, critiques, and future research directions. Rosella Carè, and Olaf Weber, Research in International Business and Finance, (2023) 

2022 

• Reexaming the Evidence on Gun Ownership and Homicide Using Proxy Measures of Owenership, Karim Chalak, Daniel Kim, Megan Miller, and John V. Pepper, Journal of Public Economics (2022) 
• Are ESG Ratings Informative About Companies’ Socially Responsible Behaviors Abroad? Evidence from the Russian Invasion of Ukraine. Daniyal Ahmed, Elizabeth Demers, Jurian Hendrikse, Philip Joos and Baruch Lev, Accountability in a Sustainable World Quarterly, (2022) 
• Prospective sectoral GHG benchmarks based on corporate climate mitigation targets. Anne-France Bolay, Anders Bjørn, Olaf Weber, Manuele Margni, Journal of Cleaner Production, (2022) 
• Ten financial actors can accelerate a transition away from fossil fuels. Truzaar Dordi, Sebastian Gehricke, Alain Naef and Olaf Weber, Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions (2022) 
• Does proxy voting really promote corporate sustainability? Julie Bernard, Olivier Boiral, Laurence Guillaumie, Marie-Christine Brotherton, Corporate Governance: An International Review (2022)  
• Canadian Banks and their Responses to COVID-19 – Stakeholder-oriented Crisis Management. Eduardo Ordonez-Ponce, Truzaar Dordi, David Talbot, and Olaf Weber, Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment, (2022) 
• Does It Pay to Issue Green? An Institutional Comparison of Mainland China and Hong Kong’s Stock Markets Toward Green Bonds. Xingxing Chen, Olaf Weber, and Vasundhara Saravade, Frontiers in Psychology, (2022) 
• Impact of regulatory policies on green bond issuances in China: policy lessons from a top-down approach. Vasundhara Saravade, Xingxing Chen, Olaf Weber, and Xianzhong Song, Climate Policy, (2022) 
• Multinational financial corporations and the sustainable development goals in developing countries. Eduardo Ordonez-Ponce and Olaf Weber, Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, (2022) 
• Does Local Confucian Culture Affect Corporate Environmental, Social, and Governance Ratings? Panpan Fu, Seema Wati Narayan, Olaf Weber, Yonggang Tian, and Yi-Shuai Ren, Evidence from China. Sustainability, (2022) 
• Housing Sustainability: The Effects of Speculation and Property Taxes on House Prices within and beyond the Jurisdiction. Muhammad Adil Rauf and Olaf Weber, Sustainability, (2022) 
• How Fashionable Are We? Validating the Fashion Interest Scale through Multivariate Statistics. Sabine Weber and Olaf Weber, Sustainability, (2022) 
• Investors' Moral and Financial Concerns - Ethical and Financial Divestment in the Fossil Fuel Industry. Yiping Zhang and Olaf Weber, Sustainability, (2022) 
• Your Emissions or Mine? Examining How Emissions Management Strategies, CSR Performance, and Targets Attract Equity Capital. Joseph A. Johnson, Jochen Theis, and Adam Vitalis, and Donald Young, Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment (2022) 

2021 

• Opening Accounting: A Manifesto. Chandana Alawattage, Diane-Laure Arjaliès, Mereana Barrett, Julie Bernard Accounting Forum (2021) 

• ESG did not immunize stocks during the COVID-19 crisis, but investments in intangible assets did. Elizabeth Demers, Jurian Hendrikse, Philip Joos, and Baruch Lev, Journal of Business and Finance Accounting (2021) 

2020 

• ESG ratings and financial performance of exchange-traded funds during the COVID-19 pandemic. Zachary Folger-Laronde, Sep Pashang, Leah Feor and Amr ElAlfy Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment (2020) 

2019 

• A Dollar for a Tree or a Tree for a Dollar? The Behavioral Effects of Measurement Basis on Managers' CSR Investment Decision. Bryan Church, Wei Jiang, Xi Kuang, and Adam Vitalis, The Accounting Review (2019) 

• The Influence of Firms’ Emissions Management Strategy Disclosures on Investors’ Valuation Judgment. Joseph A. Johnson, Jochen Theis, and Adam Vitalis, Donald Young, Contemporary Accounting Research (2019)