Does a shift to ambitious climate policy increase financial fragility? In this paper, we develop a quantitative macroeconomic model with carbon taxes and endogenous financial crises to study such "Climate Minsky Moments". By reducing asset returns, an accelerated transition to net zero exerts...

Aligning investments to the climate and sustainability targets requires the introduction of stable climate-aligned policies. In this regard, a global Carbon Tax (CT) and a revision of the microprudential banking framework via a Green Supporting Factor (GSF) have been advocated. However, our...

This thought piece identifies three crises facing international law on climate change-normative, economic, and legitimacy crises. It briefly explains each crisis and argues that states should be guided by their moral compass in addressing climate change

This paper develops a framework for the short-term modelling of market risk and shock propagation in the investment funds sector, including bi-layer contagion effects through funds' cross-holdings and overlapping exposures. Our work tackles in particular climate risk, with a first-of-its-kind...

The outbreak of COVID-19 resulted in a serious economic contraction. The design of economic recovery packages could impact countries’ trajectories towards a sustainable low-carbon economy. This paper investigates the impacts of green recovery packages on the climate, i.e., mitigation...

As it is becoming clear that climate change will exert a major impact on inflation, economic growth, and financial system stability, central banks and financial regulators have increasingly recognized that they can no longer ignore climate change and other environmental issues. In general,...