ERC Starting Grant · 2022
Energy Transitions and the Rise and Fall of Great Financial Centers
For all their differences, modern nation-states are both the energy transition leaders and financial leaders of their time. They are also home to our great financial centers (GFCs), and the question of the rise and fall of GFCs is a matter of longstanding debate. Existing explanations struggle to explain the timing and forecasting of the rise and fall of GFCs in a systematic manner. No researcher has connected the dots between energy transitions, financial transitions, the role of financial systems, and the rise and fall of great financial centers. My nontraditional hypothesis is that energy transitions drive financial transitions and GFCs. The core aims of ENFIN are: Create a new field of…
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