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Climate Change and Fiscal Sustainability: Risks and Opportunities (2021)
Journal Article
Agarwala, M., Burke, M., Klusak, P., Mohaddes, K., Volz, U., & Zenghelis, D. (2021). Climate Change and Fiscal Sustainability: Risks and Opportunities. National Institute Economic Review, 258, 28-46. https://doi.org/10.1017/nie.2021.37

Both the physical and transition-related impacts of climate change pose substantial macroeconomic risks. Yet, markets still lack credible estimates of how climate change will affect debt sustainability, sovereign creditworthiness and the public finan... Read More about Climate Change and Fiscal Sustainability: Risks and Opportunities.

Seeing Covid-19 Through a Subprime Crisis lens: How Structural and Institutional Racism Have Shaped 21st Century Crises in the U.K. and the U.S. (2021)
Journal Article
Curry, F., Dymski, G., Lewis, T. J., & Szymborska, H. (2022). Seeing Covid-19 Through a Subprime Crisis lens: How Structural and Institutional Racism Have Shaped 21st Century Crises in the U.K. and the U.S. The Review of Black Political Economy, 49(1), 77-92. https://doi.org/10.1177/00346446211065174

This special issue aims to use historical examples to gain insight into the socio-economic impact of, and possibilities of recovery from, the Covid-19 pandemic for Black communities. We approach this question by comparing the impact of the pandemic o... Read More about Seeing Covid-19 Through a Subprime Crisis lens: How Structural and Institutional Racism Have Shaped 21st Century Crises in the U.K. and the U.S..

State Ownership and Innovations: Lessons from the Mixed-Ownership Reforms of China’s Listed Companies (2021)
Journal Article
Lo, D., Gao, L., & Lin, Y. (2022). State Ownership and Innovations: Lessons from the Mixed-Ownership Reforms of China’s Listed Companies. Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 60, 302-314. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.strueco.2021.12.002

Mixed-ownership reforms have been the mainstay of reforming China's state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in recent years. In relation to the broader context of the continuous slowdown in economic growth under the New Normal, the reshaping of the innovative... Read More about State Ownership and Innovations: Lessons from the Mixed-Ownership Reforms of China’s Listed Companies.

London’s “Super Sewer”: A case study for the interdisciplinary possibilities of anthropologists and economists investigating infrastructure together (2021)
Journal Article
Van Waeyenberge, E., Bowles, B., & Bayliss, K. (2021). London’s “Super Sewer”: A case study for the interdisciplinary possibilities of anthropologists and economists investigating infrastructure together. Research in economic anthropology, 41, 5-30. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0190-128120210000041001

Despite the fact that recent anthropological interest in infrastructure has done much to illuminate the infrastructure asset as an assemblage of actors, technologies and ideas, an interdisciplinary approach is required to unpack how the infrastructur... Read More about London’s “Super Sewer”: A case study for the interdisciplinary possibilities of anthropologists and economists investigating infrastructure together.

Out of the window? Green monetary policy in China: window guidance and the promotion of sustainable lending and investment (2021)
Journal Article
Dikau, S., & Volz, U. (2023). Out of the window? Green monetary policy in China: window guidance and the promotion of sustainable lending and investment. Climate Policy, 23(1), 122-137. https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2021.2012122

Chinese monetary and financial authorities have been among the pioneers in promoting green finance. This article investigates the use of one specific monetary policy tool, namely window guidance, by the Peoples’ Bank of China (PBC) and the China Bank... Read More about Out of the window? Green monetary policy in China: window guidance and the promotion of sustainable lending and investment.

The Relevance of Financialization for African Economies: Lessons from South Africa (2021)
Preprint / Working Paper
Ashman, S., Fine, B., & Karwowski, E. The Relevance of Financialization for African Economies: Lessons from South Africa. London

While research has highlighted that financialization critically affects African economies and societies through its effect upon commodity prices, international value chain participation, and land, there are few accounts of the systemic and macroecono... Read More about The Relevance of Financialization for African Economies: Lessons from South Africa.

The Effects of Natural Disasters on Price Stability in the Euro Area (2021)
Preprint / Working Paper
Beirne, J., Dafermos, Y., Kriwoluzky, A., Renzhi, N., Volz, U., & Wittich, J. The Effects of Natural Disasters on Price Stability in the Euro Area. London

This paper investigates the impact of natural disasters on price stability in the euro area. We estimate panel and country-specific structural vector autoregression (VAR) models by combining estimated damages of disaster events with monthly data for... Read More about The Effects of Natural Disasters on Price Stability in the Euro Area.

Work in agro-industry and the social reproduction of labour in Mozambique: contradictions in the current accumulation system (2021)
Journal Article
Ali, R., & Stevano, S. (2021). Work in agro-industry and the social reproduction of labour in Mozambique: contradictions in the current accumulation system. Review of African political economy, 49(171), 67-86. https://doi.org/10.1080/03056244.2022.1990624

This article discusses the tensions between job creation and employment quality in the system of accumulation in Mozambique. Addressing job quality is central because Mozambique’s economic structure has mostly failed to generate stable work and pay a... Read More about Work in agro-industry and the social reproduction of labour in Mozambique: contradictions in the current accumulation system.

Reframing incentives for climate policy action (2021)
Journal Article
Mercure, J.-F., Salas, P., Vercoulen, P., Semieniuk, G., Lam, A., Pollitt, H., Holden, P. B., Vakilifard, N., Chewpreecha, U., Edwards, N. R., & Viñuales, J. E. (2021). Reframing incentives for climate policy action. Nature Energy, 6, 1133-1143. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-021-00934-2

A key aim of climate policy is to progressively substitute renewables and energy efficiency for fossil fuel use. The associated rapid depreciation and replacement of fossil-fuel-related physical and natural capital entail a profound reorganization of... Read More about Reframing incentives for climate policy action.