Magdalena Rola-Janicka

Magdalena Rola-Janicka is an Assistant Professor in Finance at Imperial College London. Prior to this she was at Tilburg University. Her research interests are in financial intermediation, political economy of finance and climate finance. She is a member of Finance Theory Group and a research affiliate at CEPR. She co-organized PolEconFin and the associated CEPR-Stigler conference series on the Political Economy of  Finance, as well as London FIT Network.

Can Shareholder Democracy Fill the Void of a Dysfunctional Regulatory System?

As financial markets take on societal challenges like climate change, new research from Robin Döttling, Doron Levit, Nadya Malenko and Magdalena Rola-Janicka explores how shareholder democracy interacts with the political process to impact public goods provisions. The authors investigate the potential of investor-driven governance to supplement the shortfalls of the regulatory system, highlighting both benefits and risks posed by wealth inequality and ESG backlash.

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