Registration is open until: 10 January 2026.  

Participants must be able to attend the weekly two-hour online sessions.  

The program runs for 12 weeks, from 3 February 2026 to 28 April 2026.  

Time: 11:00–13:00 EST–EDT / 17:00–19:00 CET (Hungary).  

Corvinus University faculty and doctoral students are invited to join the Financial Economics of Climate and Sustainability (FECS) global doctoral reading group. The program brings together leading international scholars who teach at the forefront of climate and sustainable finance research. 

If enough Corvinus participants enrol, monthly in-person discussion sessions will be organised on campus. 

Distinguished international speakers 

The 2026 edition features world-class scholars from leading universities: Ben Caldecott (University of Oxford), Caroline Flammer (Columbia University), Geoffrey Heal (Columbia Business School), Johannes Stroebel (New York University), Laura Starks (University of Texas at Austin), Marcin Kacperczyk (Imperial College London), Patrick Bolton (Imperial College London), Peter Tufano (Harvard Business School), Stefan Reichelstein (Stanford Graduate School of Business/University of Mannheim), and Stefano Giglio (Yale School of Management). 

More details about the program 

Corvinus University Institutional Contact: 
Helena Naffa, Sustainable Finance Research Centre, Institute of Finance 
Email: sustainable.finance@uni-corvinus.hu  

Registration (Corvinus email required): 
Registration to the Financial Economics of Climate and Sustainability 2026