Author: Buket Bıyıklı

Date: 29 April 2026, Wednesday Time: 10.30 – 11.30 "The Green Transition: Evidence from Corporate Green Revenues” by Philipp Krüger University of Geneva Abstract  We introduce a novel measure of revenues from green products and services for publicly listed firms worldwide that is not spanned by prior sustainability metrics used in the literature. We show that green revenues grew at an accelerated pace after the Paris Agreement. This growth has been driven by innovative US companies converting green patents into green revenues, as well as by firms with higher sustainability-focused institutional ownership before the Paris Agreement. Furthermore, we examine the stock returns of firms with green revenues and find modest evidence of a green alpha in the post-Paris period, primarily concentrated in US stocks. Bio Philipp Krüger is a Professor…

Date: 27 April 2026, Monday Time: 12.30 – 13.30 "Empowered but not Emancipated: Deferential Entrepreneurship under Coercion" by Jeffrey McMullen Imperial College London Abstract  How can organizational actors exercise entrepreneurial agency when they are embedded in coercive “total institutions” marked by tight rules, surveillance, and discretionary punishment? Building on institutional work, practice-driven institutionalism, micro-power, and emancipatory entrepreneurship, this essay develops a mechanism-based account of deferential entrepreneurship under coercion. Using stylized incidents from The Shawshank Redemption as a disciplined illustrative device—a “thought experiment with pictures”—the essay explains how dominated insiders introduce new practices without incurring punishment and why such efforts typically yield localized, revocable empowerment rather than emancipation. The mechanism specifies that an actor (i) identifies an authority’s pain point, (ii) frames a practice with professional legitimacy and deference cues, and…

Date: 22 April 2026, Wednesday Time: 10.30 – 11.30 Online "CBDCs, Payment Firms, and Geopolitics" by Tobias Berg Geothe University Frankfurt Abstract  We analyze the effect of a major central bank digital currency (CBDC) – the digital euro – on the payment industry to find remarkably heterogeneous effects. Stock prices of U.S. payment firms decrease, while those of European payment firms increase in response to positive announcements on the digital euro. Bank stocks do not react significantly. We estimate a loss in market capitalization of USD 127 billion for U.S. payment firms, vis-à-vis a gain of USD 23 billion for European payment firms. Our results emphasize the medium-of-exchange function of CBDCs and point to the important role of geopolitical considerations in designing financial architecture. Bio Tobias Berg is Professor of…

Date: 10 April 2026, Friday Time: 16.30 – 17.30 Place: MA-330 "Consumer Attention to Data Disclosure: Evidence from Mobile Apps" by Kelly D. Martin Colorado State University Abstract The mobile apps that mediate everyday activities make data disclosures a routine part of people’s lives, but in fragmented prior research, the privacy threats associated with data disclosures dominate. To compliment such perspectives, the current research proposes a novel conceptualization that reflects how consumers respond when transparency policies make data disclosure practices salient. A large-scale, natural field experiment involving more than 700,000 app reviews, surrounding the introduction of Apple’s Privacy Nutrition Labels, reveals a negative relative effect of transparency on consumer attention to data disclosures. Yet as these labels diffused, and transparency became a platform standard, consumers seemed to attend specifically to…