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Do Stringent Environmental Policies Deter FDI? M&A versus Greenfield

Bialek, Sylwia - 2015

This study examines how environmental stringency affects the location decision of foreign direct investments. We analyze a firm-level data set on German outbound FDI and innovate on previous studies by controlling for the mode of entry and applying the mixed-logit analysis. The results show that...

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The Impact of COVID-19 on the Path to Climate Neutral Air Transport - An Empirical Investigation

Ringbeck, Jürgen; Koenig, Tim-Maximilian - 2021

The COVID-19 crisis still has a firm grip on the aviation industry after global air traffic slumped to 66% below the previous year's level in 2020, and many airlines could only be saved from bankruptcy by special loans or direct state equity investments. At the same time, there is increasing...

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Book Review, Julien Chaisse , China's International Investment Strategy : Bilateral, Regional, and Global Law and Policy, Oxford University Press, 2019, 560 pp, ISBN 9780198827450

Farah, Paolo Davide - 2021

In this book, Professor Julien Chaisse, a renowned scholar in the field of international economic law and China-expert, focuses on one of the countries which are proactively (re)shaping our understanding of the international order: the People’s Republic of China (PRC or China). This edited...

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The Green Climate Fund – Projections vs. Reality

Gechev, Vasil - 2021

The Green Climate Fund (GCF) is supposed to be the main institutional tool that assists the achievement of the goals of the Paris Agreement and Agenda 2030’s Goal 13: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts. The original projections envisaged the mobilization of $100...

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Climate Actions and Stranded Assets : The Role of Financial Regulation and Monetary Policy

Diluiso, Francesca - 2020

substantial threats to financial and macroeconomic stability. We use a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model with financial … frictions and climate policy to study the risks a low-carbon transition poses to financial stability and the different … effective stimulus without compromising the objective of price stability. Our results suggest that the involvement of central …

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Do female parliamentarians improve environmental quality? : cross-country evidence

Asongu, Simplice; Salahodjaev, Raufhon - 2022

This study explores the empowerment of women in politics on the environmental sustainability. Using data for the period 2015-2019 from 179 countries, we investigate the link between representation of women in parliament and the Environmental Performance Index (EPI). To explore the causal effect,...

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Climate actions and stranded assets : the role of financial regulation and monetary policy

Diluiso, Francesca; Annicchiarico, Barbara; Kalkuhl, … - 2020

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Vintage differentiated regulations and plant survival : evidence from coal-fired plants

Coysh, Daniel; Johnstone, Nick; Koźluk, Tomasz; … - 2019

This paper assesses the effect of environmental regulations on plant survival and emissions using data on the extent of vintage differentiation of regulations (VDR5) regarding air pollution emission limit values for existing and new coal-fired power plants. Focussing on NOx and SOx emissions,...

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The new urban paradigm

Lanfranchi, Gabriel; Herrero, Ana Carolina; Palenzuela, … - 2018

This policy brief argues in favor of a new urban model that harnesses the power that cities have to curb global warming. Such a model tackles fundamental management challenges in the energy, building and transport sectors to promote the growth of diverse and compact cities. Such a model is...

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Fostering green investments and tackling climate-related financial risks : which role for macroprudential policies?

D'Orazio, Paola; Popoyan, Lilit - 2018

While there is a growing debate among researchers and practitioners on the possible role of central banks and financial regulators in supporting a smooth transition to a low-carbon economy, the information on which macroprudential instruments could be used for reaching the "green structural...

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