The green transition requires a substantive shift in financial flows that will not occur without policy interventions. We map out and critically assess the dominant, ‘risk-based’ approach which relies on changing the relative prices of green /dirty assets. Since it outsources the pace and...

The climate and biodiversity emergencies require structural economic shifts that will necessitate strategic coordination between macroeconomic policy authorities. The Covid-19 episode saw the implementation of monetary-fiscal policy coordination not seen since the 1970s to avert catastrophic...

This report explores the interactions between nature-related financial risks and monetary policy, focusing on the ECB’s corporate asset purchase operations (also described as corporate ‘quantitative easing’ or ‘QE’). Using the ENCORE framework, we find that the sectors the ECB is...

There is growing awareness amongst both financial policy makers and financial institutions of the need to better understand the links between the financial system and biodiversity loss. Central banks and financial supervisors have so far focused more on the risks posed by biodiversity loss to...

Climate-related financial risks (CRFR) pose unique challenges for capital requirements regulation. CRFR are forward looking, non-linear, systemic and endogenous – attributes that render quantitative estimates of physical and transition risk subject to radical uncertainty. CRFR are also...

German government is stepping into a new era with its COVID-19 recovery support measures. It is leaving behind its ordoliberal foundations which see the role of the state as making sure policy conditions enable markets to function properly. In this view, the state should fix market failures and...

30 Jahre nach der Deutschen Wiedervereinigung – und unter dem Eindruck der akuten Corona-Krise – fand der siebte New Paradigm Workshop des Forum New Economy zur Zukunft des deutschen Modells vom 28. bis 30. September in Berlin statt. Renommierte deutsche und internationale Experten...