Irene Monasterolo, a Visiting Research Fellow and a former post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently co-edited a special issue of the journal Ecological Economics with Andrea Roventini and Tim Foxon. The special issue, titled “Understanding uncertainty of climate policies and implications for economics and finance: an […]
The Global Development Policy Center and the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future recently co-hosted a seminar titled “A Climate Risk Assessment of Sovereign Bonds’ Portfolio,” featuring Irene Monasterolo of Vienna University of Economics and Business. Monasterolo, a Pardee Center post-doctoral associate from 2015-2017, is a development economist with experience in policy […]
Anthony Janetos, the Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, and Irene Monasterolo, a Visiting Research Fellow, recently co-authored a paper on climate-related financial disclosure in the journal Climatic Change. The paper, titled “Vulnerable yet relevant: the two dimensions of climate-related financial disclosure,” proposes two novel indices to identify […]
Climate change brings new risks for financial investments, but the impact of climate policies on the financial system has remained unclear so far. Several organizations, including the G20 Financial Stability Board, have called for improving both data and methodologies to better disclose the climate risks faced by public and private investors in financial markets. An […]
Irene Monasterolo, a post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, will be co-hosting and participating in a side event at the UN climate change conference in Marrakech. The event, titled “Disentangling the Climate-Finance Nexus: Methods for 2°C alignment and climate stress-tests for institutional investors and development banks,” […]
Irene Monasterolo, a post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, presented a paper at the 1.5 Degrees Conference organized by the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford. Monasterolo’s paper, titled “When the elephant meets the mouse: modeling the impact of fossil fuels and renewable energy subsidies on […]
Irene Monasterolo, a post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, traveled to Italy to present her research at two recent conferences. On September 17, she presented a paper titled ‘Modelling fiscal and monetary policy strategies for fostering green investments: a system dynamics model with heterogeneous agents’ at the 27th Annual Conference […]