Professor Yrjö Koskinen

Yrjö Koskinen is the BMO Professor of Sustainable and Transition Finance at the Haskayne School of Business. Previously he has served on the faculties of Stockholm School of Economics, Boston University’s Questrom School of Business, and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He holds an MSc degree in Economics from the University of Helsinki, and a PhD in Management (Finance) from INSEAD. Prior to his academic career,  Yrjö worked as a financial journalist and as an economist at the Bank of Finland.



Yrjö's main research areas are corporate finance and governance, and sustainable finance. His current research focuses on corporate social responsibility and its relationship to firm risk, and the effects of limited liability on corporations. His research has been published in the leading finance and management journals, such as the Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Management Science, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, and Review of Finance. He is the recipient of the Standard Life Investments Finance Prize for his research on corporate social responsibility and firm risk.