2019 debattierten in Berlin Naturschutz-Experten das Thema "Fauna, Flora und Finanzen - Welchen Wert hat die Natur?" Die Inwertsetzung der Ökosystemleistungen ist derzeit ein lebhaft diskutiertes Mittel, um Naturschutzmaßnahmen gerade auch in der Landwirtschaft besser steuern zu können und um...

Am Beispiel der zweiten Weltwirtschaftskrise des 20. Jahrhunderts lassen sich die Gegensätze neoklassischer Ressourcenökonomie und keynesianischer Geldwirtschaft gut erkennen. Die allokative Wirkung veränderter Ressourcenknappheiten wird an der Rohölpreisentwicklung untersucht, um zu zeigen,...

While oil price fluctuations in the past can be explained by pure supply factors, this book argues that it is monetary policy that plays a significant role in setting global oil prices. It is a key factor often neglected in much of the earlier literature on the determinants of asset prices,...

We assess the transmission of monetary policy shocks on oil prices using a VAR model. We identify monetary policy and financial activity shocks disentangled from demand and oil supply shocks using sign restrictions. We obtain the following main findings. (i) Monetary policy and financial...

1. Why Sustainable Finance? Why Now? -- 2. What Puts the Sustainable into Sustainable Finance -- 3. The Chequered History of Climate Finance -- 4. Sustainable Finance: The Policy Framework -- 5. Measuring and Reporting Sustainability Impacts -- 6. The Role for Central and Public Banks.

This book provides a detailed yet succinct overview of sustainable finance, with a specific focus on its origins, its policy focus and the practitioner dimension. With fossil fuel companies still attracting investment and subsidy across the world, the book describes how we can reverse these...

1 Introductory Remarks: What’s behind the Recent Oil Price Drop? Naoyuki Yoshino and Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary -- 2 Impact of Expansionary Monetary Policy on Crude Oil Prices Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary and Naoyuki Yoshino -- 3 Which Side of the Economy Is Affected More by Oil Prices: Supply or...