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• Events // 18.03.2025

  Financing the Green Transition: The Role of Private Capital

  The EU has set itself the objective to become climate neutral by 2050. This requires massive investments. Over the next few years, huge sums will have to be channelled into financing the green transition [...] capital is needed. Given the scale of investment required, both EU Member States and the Commission are seeking efficient strategies to draw private investment for green activities, production methods [...] for the green transition? Which frameworks, policies and instruments are conducive to more green investments and more impact? Registration upon personal invitation only. If you are interested in joining
• Events // 08.05.2025

  Ageing and Sustainable Finance 2025

  dis-saving, investment, and insurance behaviour •    “Green preferences”, sustainable financial literacy and financial decisions •    Risk-management and investment strategies [...] Long-term trends like demographic change and climate change pose major challenges for the sustainability and stability of financial markets. For households, firms and financial institutions these entail [...] environment for in-depth debates on (the interplay between) the effects of demographic change and climate change on financial markets and their various players, on the policy implications of recent research
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  Press Releases // 07.11.2024

  Germany Needs a Government Capable of Acting as Soon as Possible

  capable of acting as soon as possible and that reduces climate policy to an efficient level. A government launching an infrastructure investment programme which also involves private capital and facing [...] considerable problems facing the country. The government set out to reconcile the transition to climate neutrality with economic growth and social policy in Europe – to achieve a socio-ecological market [...] market economy. It has not lived up to this aspiration. The economy is stagnating and investments are not materializing. This daunting task has been compounded by geoeconomic tensions: the wars in Europe and
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  News // 21.10.2024

  How Do Think Tanks Work?

  must. I also gave a lecture at the Brookings Institution and went to Resources for the Future, a climate research institute. Besides think tanks, I also met economists working in government agencies and [...] colleagues. The other half was spent visiting institutions. I gave talks on European economic and climate policy, discussed ZEW’s research topics and took part in lunch debates on current studies or topics [...] suggested your next trip should be to Luxembourg, as it’s the second largest recipient of German direct investment. Interesting, isn’t it? But it’s actually a statistical artefact, because so many banks are based
• Publications // 14.10.2024

  ZEW Discussion Paper - Regulated Correlations — Climate Policy and Investment Risks

  Investments in energy technologies are substantially governed by climate policy. We demonstrate analytically that price-based instruments, such as carbon-taxes, and quantity-based regulations, like emission [...] (co-)variance of power plant profits. If investors are risk-averse, these differences lead to divergent investment portfolios, breaking the equivalence of price- and quantity-based policy instruments under ris
• Publications // 25.09.2024

  Contributions to Edited Volumes and Conference Proceedings - Can the Financial Sector Protect the Climate? The Potential of Sustainable Finance

  mechanisms on how sustainable finance can support climate policy: first, providing investors with the necessary information to factor climate risk into their investment and portfolio decisions; second, building [...] Climate policy aims to reduce emissions by redirecting investment from emission-intensive toward carbon-neutral assets. One key instrument, carbon pricing, guides investors and asset managers by lowering [...] for sustainable investing by differentiated means for institutional investors and retail investors; and, finally, addressing the cost of capital as an obstacle to low-carbon investments. For each, we critically
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  News // 25.09.2024

  Brussels’ Overreaction: The Consequences of Counter-Tariffs Against China

  overarching goal of climate policy is to achieve global climate neutrality, a global public good. When third countries subsidise their green industries, it helps all nations meet their climate goals at a lower [...] in Europe, too. The transition to climate neutrality won’t happen on its own, even though the EU has successfully established emissions trading as a key tool for climate protection. Ensuring security of [...] transition of basic industries to climate neutrality should be promoted primarily through green lead markets, with as little reliance as possible on subsidies in the form of climate protection contracts.
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  Press Releases // 10.09.2024

  ZEW Economist Friedrich Heinemann on Draghi’s Report on European Competitiveness

  legislation, but also for a measurable reduction in reporting obligations for companies. In terms of climate policy, the report takes a clear position on technological neutrality and advocates for more openness [...] used in planned economy. Overall, the report lacks appreciation for market-based instruments in climate policy. The highly successful European Emissions Trading Scheme is discussed mainly in terms of its [...] absent, even though many environmental economists see this as the best way to achieve an affordable climate policy that preserves competitiveness. Furthermore, the report almost completely ignores the location
• Publications // 05.08.2024

  ZEW policy brief - Towards a More Realistic View on the Market Potential of EU Securitizations

  global trends like climate change require firms to invest in projects that support their transformation. In order to unlock the huge sums of private capital necessary for these investments, the engagement [...] financing assets on- and off-balance-sheet. Securitizations allow institutional investors to directly invest into cash flows from specific assets. Our analysis shows that the current market potential of European [...] to accelerate the green transition, policymakers need to encourage the necessary private real investments in the first place by creating a conducive economic environment and the right incentives.
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  Press Releases // 08.08.2024

  Realistic View of European Securitizations Necessary

  In the face of pressing global challenges, especially climate change, companies need to invest more in transformational projects. Against this background, a better integration of the banking system and [...] to directly finance green projects. This is particularly interesting in terms of climate risk management and climate reporting. However, it is questionable whether banks will want to securitize and sell [...] green transition. Policymakers should therefore focus on creating the necessary conditions for investments in the real economy. “Compared to green bonds, green securitizations offer institutional investors