Preface -- Chapter 1. China's wind and solar sectors: trends in deployment, manufacturing, and energy policy / Iacob Koch-Weser and Ethan Meick -- Chapter 2. Statement of Leocadia I. Zak, Director, U.S. Trade and Development Agency. Hearing on "U.S.-China Clean Energy Cooperation: Status,...

In the wake of recent crisis developments in the US and Europe, non-bank credit channels have often been portrayed as 'shadow banking' and have been considered primarily through the lens of the risks they may pose to financial stability. However, the debate about financial system structures...

This research investigates the interactions of U.S. interest rate, the different types of bank loans at all U.S. commercial banks, production activities and the foreign exchange rate between U.S. and China. This paper uses monthly data from 1981 to 2012 to show that some U.S. bank-loan-related...

Today, more than 70% of the world's total electricity production is supplied by power plants using conventional fossil fuels. Coal accounts for more than half of the fossil fuel combustion in electricity plants. Future mega trends give reason to believe that electricity demand will double until...