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Green finance in Asia: challenges, policies and avenues for research (2023)
Journal Article
Diaz-Rainey, I., Corfee-Morlot, J., Volz, U., & Caldecott, B. Green finance in Asia: challenges, policies and avenues for research. Climate Policy, 23(1), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2023.2168359

Financing climate change mitigation and adaptation in Asia is critical for its population and economies but also for those of the world. This editorial provides a commentary and overview of ten articles within this special issue of Climate Policy on... Read More about Green finance in Asia: challenges, policies and avenues for research.

Inequality determined social outcomes of low-carbon transition policies: A conceptual meta-review of justice impacts (2023)
Journal Article
Dwarkasing, C. (2023). Inequality determined social outcomes of low-carbon transition policies: A conceptual meta-review of justice impacts. Energy Research & Social Science, 97, Article 102974. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2023.102974

Inequality and climate change represent two key challenges in modern societies across the world. In this paper, we provide a critical engagement with the literature that treats aggravated social and economic inequalities as (potential) negative outco... Read More about Inequality determined social outcomes of low-carbon transition policies: A conceptual meta-review of justice impacts.

Prehistoric pathways to Anthropocene adaptation: Evidence from the Red River Delta, Vietnam (2023)
Journal Article
Rabett, R. J., Morimoto, R., Kahlert, T., Stimpson, C. M., O’Donnell, S., Mai Huong, N. T., Manh, B. V., Holmes, R., Khánh, P. S., Van, T. T., & Coward, F. (2023). Prehistoric pathways to Anthropocene adaptation: Evidence from the Red River Delta, Vietnam. PLoS ONE, 18(2), Article e0280126. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0280126

Over the past twenty years, government advisory bodies have placed increasing emphasis on the need for adaptive measures in response to the effects of human-induced climate change. Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs), which incorporate macroeconomic... Read More about Prehistoric pathways to Anthropocene adaptation: Evidence from the Red River Delta, Vietnam.

Neoliberalism, Policy Failures, and the COVID-19 Crisis: Going beyond Hirschman’s Fracasomanía (2023)
Book Chapter
Franz, T. (2023). Neoliberalism, Policy Failures, and the COVID-19 Crisis: Going beyond Hirschman’s Fracasomanía. In A. Mica, M. Pawlak, A. Horolets, & P. Kubicki (Eds.), Routledge International Handbook of Failure (390-401). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429355950-32

This chapter critically engages with the concept of fracasomanía. Coined by the economist Alfred O. Hirschman in the 1960s, fracasomanía denotes a failure complex of Latin America’s policymakers causing them to see everything that preceded as utter f... Read More about Neoliberalism, Policy Failures, and the COVID-19 Crisis: Going beyond Hirschman’s Fracasomanía.

States of Innovation: How the state shapes production transformation (2023)
Book Chapter
Andreoni, A., & Kattel, R. (2023). States of Innovation: How the state shapes production transformation. In P. Bianchi, S. Labory, & P. Tomlinson (Eds.), Handbook of Industrial Development (382-402). Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800379091.00033

Historically, state formation and industrialisation have been linked by a mutually constitutive relationship. Industrialisation has been shaped by the state (or lack thereof) via industrial and innovation policy. The formation of state institutions,... Read More about States of Innovation: How the state shapes production transformation.

Non-Bank Finance and Monetary Policy Transmission in Asia (2023)
Journal Article
Beirne, J., Renzhi, N., & Volz, U. (2023). Non-Bank Finance and Monetary Policy Transmission in Asia. Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, 59(6), 1976-1991. https://doi.org/10.1080/1540496X.2022.2156279

Focusing on Asian economies over the period 2006 to 2019, we find that while non-bank finance appears to complement rather than substitute credit provision by the traditional banking sector, weaker regulatory quality is an important driving factor. M... Read More about Non-Bank Finance and Monetary Policy Transmission in Asia.

When the United States and the People’s Republic of China Sneeze: Monetary Policy Spillovers to Asian Economies (2023)
Journal Article
Beirne, J., Renzhi, N., & Volz, U. (2023). When the United States and the People’s Republic of China Sneeze: Monetary Policy Spillovers to Asian Economies. Open Economies Review, 34(3), 519-540. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11079-022-09695-1

This paper examines monetary policy spillovers from the US and the People’s Republic of China (PRC) to real and financial sectors in advanced and emerging Asian economies over the period 2000 to 2020. Using a structural vector autoregression (SVAR) a... Read More about When the United States and the People’s Republic of China Sneeze: Monetary Policy Spillovers to Asian Economies.

Rising to the challenge or perish? Chinese import penetration and its impact on growth dynamics of manufacturing firms in South Africa (2023)
Journal Article
Andreoni, A., & Torreggiani, S. (2023). Rising to the challenge or perish? Chinese import penetration and its impact on growth dynamics of manufacturing firms in South Africa. Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 64(March), 199-212. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.strueco.2022.12.010

Using firm-level tax administrative data from 2010 to 2017, we study the extent to which Chinese import penetration has affected the growth performances of manufacturing firms registered in South Africa. By instrumenting Chinese imports to South Afri... Read More about Rising to the challenge or perish? Chinese import penetration and its impact on growth dynamics of manufacturing firms in South Africa.

Successes and Failures of Industrial Policies in Nigeria: The Cases of the Cement, Textiles, and Iron and Steel Industries (2023)
Thesis
Salihu, H. Successes and Failures of Industrial Policies in Nigeria: The Cases of the Cement, Textiles, and Iron and Steel Industries. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Under the same clientelist political settlement, industrial policies have been designed and implemented in the cement, textile, and iron and steel industries in Nigeria. However, although these policies were designed and implemented under more or les... Read More about Successes and Failures of Industrial Policies in Nigeria: The Cases of the Cement, Textiles, and Iron and Steel Industries.

Financialisation of Non-Financial Corporations in South Africa: An integrated framework to study variations across sectors, value chains and firms (2023)
Preprint / Working Paper
Andreoni, A., van Huellen, S., & Robb, N. Financialisation of Non-Financial Corporations in South Africa: An integrated framework to study variations across sectors, value chains and firms. London

Financialisation shapes the ways in which middle-income countries and their nonfinancial corporations integrate into global supply chains and the global financial system. This integration in turn shapes the ways in which these corporations engage wit... Read More about Financialisation of Non-Financial Corporations in South Africa: An integrated framework to study variations across sectors, value chains and firms.

Eritrea’s Self-reliance policy and the Road to Sustainable Food and Water Security (2023)
Thesis
Weldetsion, G. G. Eritrea’s Self-reliance policy and the Road to Sustainable Food and Water Security. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Eritrea's models of self-reliance policy and its collective of governance strategy are exceptional which is not experienced in other African countries. The government strongly argues that development cannot be achieved through aid but can be attained... Read More about Eritrea’s Self-reliance policy and the Road to Sustainable Food and Water Security.

State-led Economic Transformation in Rwanda 2000-2019: An Evaluation of the Role of Policy in Coffee-processing, Tourism, Food Crops, and Manufacturing (2023)
Thesis
Heinen, S. State-led Economic Transformation in Rwanda 2000-2019: An Evaluation of the Role of Policy in Coffee-processing, Tourism, Food Crops, and Manufacturing. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Less than thirty years after civil war and genocide, the government of post-conflict Rwanda has achieved a remarkable level of state-building and economic growth. This thesis uses a political settlements framework to make sense of the country’s recen... Read More about State-led Economic Transformation in Rwanda 2000-2019: An Evaluation of the Role of Policy in Coffee-processing, Tourism, Food Crops, and Manufacturing.

Realtor’s Capital: The Political Economy of Property Developers in the United States (2023)
Thesis
Qazi, S. Realtor’s Capital: The Political Economy of Property Developers in the United States. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This dissertation charts a novel path in urban political economy by tracing the profits and the process of turnover of property developers in the United States. I refer to these developers as realtor’s capital and argue for treating them as a peculia... Read More about Realtor’s Capital: The Political Economy of Property Developers in the United States.

From Financialisation to Innovation in UK Big Pharma: AstraZeneca and GlaxoSmithKline (2022)
Book
Tulum, O., Andreoni, A., & Lazonick, W. (2022). From Financialisation to Innovation in UK Big Pharma: AstraZeneca and GlaxoSmithKline. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009278140

The tension between innovation and financialisation is central to the business corporation. Innovation entails a 'retain-and-reinvest' allocation regime that can form a foundation for stable and equitable economic growth. Driven by shareholder-value... Read More about From Financialisation to Innovation in UK Big Pharma: AstraZeneca and GlaxoSmithKline.