Finance

No company wants to be the dirtiest on the block. If there were a clear and consistent way to gauge and reward progress, even the most polluting firms would find the will and the funds to decarbonise

Financial services firms expect significant growth in their use of machine learning, but are already having problems implementing it at scale. Professor Marcin Kacperczyk untangles the knot for business leaders

Top executives of US banks that experienced huge losses in the 2008 crisis sold their own shares well before the crisis hit

Firms favoured by socially conscious investors experienced reduced stock market losses during the March 2020 stock market crash

A carbon tax could both help pay for the enormous costs of the pandemic and encourage “clean” investment. Crucially, it should be levied in a few years’ time, when the UK economy has begun to recover

The economic impact of COVID-19 is sobering, far reaching and changing day to day. But could we have foreseen it?

New research suggests newspaper reporting might be used to spot recessions early

Central banks are buying huge quantities of government bonds, but these aren’t “printing money” or “helicopter drops”, they are helping in greatly stabilising the economy

Climate targets will only be reached if we promote green investment in low carbon infrastructure and long term green approaches.

Technology has a tendency to amplify pre-existing inequities, but how far does machine learning extend these biases to mortgage approvals?

PhD student Tamar Gomez has been analysing US war logs and digital maps to understand the surprising effects of road building in war-torn Iraq on levels of violence against civilians in the years 2003 to 2016

Can Brazil become an example to other countries in attracting essential foreign investment for climate initiatives without sacrificing its stock of natural resources?