Financing Low-Carbon Transitions through Carbon Pricing and Green Bonds
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Financing Low-Carbon Transitions through Carbon Pricing and Green Bonds
Heine, Dirk | Semmler, Willi | Mazzucato, Mariana | Braga, João Paulo | Flaherty, Michael | Gevorkyan, Arkady | Hayde, Erin | Radpour, Siavash
Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung, Vol. 88 (2019), Iss. 2 : pp. 29–49
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Dirk Heine, World Bank, Macroeconomics, Trade & Investment Global Practice, Global Macro and Debt; Université catholique de Louvain, Hoover Chair in Economic and Social Ethics, dheine@worldbank.org,
Willi Semmler, New School for Social Research, Department of Economics; University of Bielefeld, Faculty of Economics; International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Senior Researcher at IIASA, SemmlerW@newschool.edu
Mariana Mazzucato, University College London, Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, m.mazzucato@ucl.ac.uk
João Paulo Braga, New School for Social Research, Department of Economics, bragj553@newschool.edu
Michael Flaherty, New School for Social Research, Department of Economics, flahertym@newschool.edu
Arkady Gevorkyan, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, Surveillance and Macro, arkady.gevorkyan@clev.frb.org
Erin Hayde, World Bank, Macroeconomics, Trade & Investment Global Practice; New School for Social Research, Department of Economics, hayde690@newschool.edu
Siavash Radpour, New School for Social Research, Department of Economics, radps229@newschool.edu
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