This paper examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on sustainability behaviors in Hong Kong focusing on five domains of the Sustainable Development Goals: health, consumption, social environment, quality of life, and institutions. Through a survey and focus groups, we found that the...

Analysing causality among oil prices and, in general, among financial and economic variables is of central relevance in applied economics studies. The recent contribution of Lu et al. (2014) proposes a novel test for causality- the DCC-MGARCH Hong test. We show that the critical values of the...

This paper explores people’s willingness to reduce travel consumption in support of the transition to a low-carbon pathway beyond COVID-19 using new survey data from UK car drivers and air travellers. Over half (56%) of the car users and 45% of the air travellers surveyed are willing to reduce...

Objectives-based legislation - or laws which focus on achieving particular and concrete outcomes - has become a new and important tool that financial sector regulators use to tackle large and varied financial system risks. Yet, objectives-based legislation - and the frequent principles-based...