Recently, “Financial Technology-companies” (FinTechs) are increasingly changing the financial services industry worldwide and impose considerable challenges for regulators tasked to solve the arising trade-off between sound regulation and innovation support. In this regard, regulatory...

We find that the effectiveness of environmental regulations is contingent on local banking competition in China. Specifically, firms located in cities with more concentrated banking markets are less likely to reduce their SO2 emissions or increase investment in abatement equipment when faced...

Previous international climate change agreements have primarily been driven by states, such as the UN Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, followed by the Kyoto Protocol in 1997 and the Paris Agreement in 2015. Perhaps due to the national focus of these...

Foreword / by Herman Daly -- Preface -- Questions of enough -- Have you had enough? -- Why should enough be the goal? -- How much is enough? -- What sort of economy provides enough? -- Strategies of enough -- Enough throughput : limiting resource use and waste production -- Enough people :...