Existing approaches to assess the economic impact of climate policies tend to overlook the financial sector and to focus only on direct effects of policies on the specific institutional sector they target, neglecting possible feedbacks between sectors, thus, underestimating the overall policy...

Finance has become more a problem than a solution to what the world most wants: socially inclusive growth. It has become a source of crises that threaten the development of the real economy. It has escaped accountability to democratic institutions and often helped, instead, to influence and...

Levelized cost is the preferred method of evaluating various energy technologies. Yet this ubiquitous technique is rarely questioned, and its history is poorly understood. This paper traces the history of levelized cost as a method and highlights its promise and pitfalls. The levelized cost of...

In this paper we discuss the continued transition of financial markets towards trade standardization and the clearing of transactions, outlining the role of central clearing counterparties CCPs in reducing systemic and idiosyncratic risk. We contrast this with a discussion on bespoke non-cleared...

This paper analyses the hypothesis that the robust relationship between trust - as measured by the World Values Survey's question "In general, do you think that most people can be trusted, or that you can't be too careful in dealing with people?" - and economic growth, established by empirical...

This paper tries to evaluate the impact of COVID-19 on the world oil prices from a multidimensional graphical perspective. The alternative multidimensional graphical is based on a new graphical method, the “Infinity Physical Space (I-Physical Space)”. The I-Physical Space can show the world...

This paper graphically demonstrates the patterns of economic recession from any epidemic in the world, i.e. the Wuhan COVID-19 contagious infectious disease. This can generate economic waves on different markets (countries or regions). This paper evaluates the way in which an economic recession...