Arrival and coffee

10:00

Welcome address

Katharina Dittrich, Warwick Business School

10:10

Getting to know the room

11:00

On the significance of the micro, the necessity of the macro, and the rationale of this workshop

Julius Kob, Warwick Business School

11:15

12:00

Coffee break

12:30

Collecting manifestation of the macro

Format: small group discussions

• Where have you encountered manifestation of what you consider “the macro” in your research on green finance?
• What attributes make it “macro”?
• How can we classify different instantiations of the “macro”?

Goal: Collate different approaches to, and conceptions of the “macro” in green finance.

13:30

Lunch

15:00

Sharing perspectives

Format: plenary discussion

• What can we learn from these categories of the “macro”?What kind of research objects and loci do they suggest and what kind of questions do they pose?
• What are the blind spots and limitations of these different conceptions of the “macro”? Can they complement each other?

Goal: Develop a shared understanding of different ways to encounter the “macro” as well as of related research questions and blind spots.

16:00

Coffee break

16:30

Connecting micro and macro

Format: small group discussions

• Based on the categorisation developed in the previous sessions, what are methodological and conceptual strategies to illuminate micro-macro relations?
• What are the main difficulties in pursuing these strategies?
• What kind of relations are being foregrounded?

Goal: Identification of methodological and conceptual strategies for researching micro-macro relationships.

17:30

Sharing insights

Format: plenary discussion

Goal: Developing a shared understanding of ways to illuminate micro-macro relations in green finance.

18:30

Break

19:00

Dinner at Radcliffe Restaurant

8:30

Arrival and coffee

9:00

The politics of green finance research – a provocative intervention

Matthias Täger, Warwick Business School

9:15

What to position on? Dimensions, facets, and effects to evaluate

Format: small group discussions

• What is it that social science scholars could, should or must develop a position on in relation to the phenomenon of green finance?
• What are epistemic and other limits to explicit normative positioning?
• What is our respective basis for normative evaluations?

Goal: Developing a shared understanding of the object, basis, and limits of normative evaluations of green finance.

10:00

Normative positioning

Format: plenary discussion

• What research is needed to facilitate more explicit normative positioning?
• How can illuminations of micro-macro relations facilitate this normative positioning?

Goal: Crafting a research agenda supporting a normative evaluation of green finance.

10:45

Coffee break

11:00

Next steps: transdisciplinary advances

Format: plenary discussion

• What are the outputs this group would like to produce based on this workshop?
• What are the topics and formats for future exchanges this group is interested in?

Goal: Continuing and advancing the debate around integrating micro-foundational and political economy perspectives on green finance.

12:00

Optional lunch

End