Ali Lazrak

Ali Lazrak

Institution

UBC

Email

Ali.Lazrak@sauder.ubc.ca

FTG Membership

Member

Website

https://sites.google.com/view/ali-lazrak

Featured Work

Oct 10, 2025

Ali Lazrak

Why Divest? The Political and Informational Roles of Institutions in Asset Stranding

We model stakeholder-driven institutional divestiture that promotes harmful-asset stranding through both an economic exposure channel and financial prices. We introduce two novel mechanisms. First, institutional divestiture weakens stakeholders' asset exposures, improving political conditions for stranding. Second, institutional divestiture credibly communicates information about citizen preferences, environmental harm, and economic benefits to financial markets and political participants. These channels drive harmful-asset divestiture, which reduces the asset price...