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5 September 2022

John Armour

Luca Enriques

Thom Wetzer

Dark and Dirty Assets: Greening Climate-Driven Asset Partitioning

The imperative to mitigate climate change is leading even the largest polluters to start cleaning up their activities and green their strategies. When energy giants Shell, Total, and Eni sold...

Mandatory Corporate Climate Disclosures: Now, but How?

Climate change is one of today’s most salient policy challenges. Under the Paris Agreement, 195 governments agreed to limit temperature increases to well below 2, preferably 1.5, degrees centigrade relative...

Corporate Carbon Reduction Pledges: Beyond Greenwashing

A small number of firms have an outsize impact on climate change. The majority of global carbon emissions since human-induced climate change was officially recognised can be traced to a...

Foundations of System-Wide Financial Stress Testing with Heterogeneous Institutions

In a highly connected financial system, seemingly localised shocks can be amplified and propagated to take on systemic importance. During the financial crisis from 2007-2009, problems that started in the real...

8 June 2020

Doyne Farmer

Alissa Kleinnijenhuis

Paul Nahai-Williamson

Thom Wetzer

Network-Sensitive Financial Regulation

Shocks that hit part of the financial system, such as the subprime mortgage market in 2007, can propagate and amplify through the complex network of interconnections among financial and non-financial...

In Two Minds: The Governance of Ring-Fenced Banks

A keynote policy of UK financial regulation since the financial crisis has been the ‘ring-fencing’ of retail banks into separate and independently operated entities, so-called ‘ring-fenced bodies’ (RFBs), distinct from...

12 February 2019

Thom Wetzer

Ten years After the Financial Crisis: 'We Are Safer, But Not As Safe As We Should and Could Be'

The bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, now ten years ago, was neither the start nor the peak of the financial crisis. Yet, the demise of the iconic investment bank, the fourth-largest...

Akzo Nobel: Activist Shareholders Hit Wall of Dutch Stakeholder Model

An attempt at courtship has ended up in court. Over the past months, US paints and coatings giant PPG Industries (‘PPG’) has tried to woe the management and shareholders of...

1 June 2017

Thom Wetzer

Tom Vos

Conference Report: ‘The Future Framework for European Capital Markets – Law and Finance’

When European banks were hit by financial calamity, a lack of alternative funding arrangements deepened the crisis. Stronger European capital markets would have changed that picture, because savers and borrowers...

23 February 2017

Thom Wetzer

Green Pills

Dark and Dirty Assets: Greening Climate-Driven Asset Partitioning

Mandatory Corporate Climate Disclosures: Now, but How?

Corporate Carbon Reduction Pledges: Beyond Greenwashing

Foundations of System-Wide Financial Stress Testing with Heterogeneous Institutions

Network-Sensitive Financial Regulation

In Two Minds: The Governance of Ring-Fenced Banks

Ten years After the Financial Crisis: 'We Are Safer, But Not As Safe As We Should and Could Be'

Akzo Nobel: Activist Shareholders Hit Wall of Dutch Stakeholder Model

Conference Report: ‘The Future Framework for European Capital Markets – Law and Finance’

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