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Reader in Economics @SOAS University of London | Macroeconomics; finance; climate crisis; inequality.
Oct 8, 2021 8 tweets 2 min read
In this new @SOASEconomics working paper I argue that we need to move beyond the risk exposure approach to the design of climate-aligned monetary and financial policies soas.ac.uk/economics/rese…. 1/n Image The risk exposure approach focuses on how individual financial institutions and central banks can protect themselves from climate change. Most of the actions of the ECB climate roadmap (ecb.europa.eu/press/pr/date/…) rely on this approach. 2/n
Jan 15, 2021 6 tweets 3 min read
Our new paper with @DanielaGabor and @JoMicheII on the #WallStreetConsensus and the climate crisis is out. Thread
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… We explain how the pandemic has reinforced the dominance of the #WallStreetConsensus due to the growing fiscal deficits in the Global South and the new central bank liquidity measures. 1/n