Finance

How rising temperatures impact business performance, and why it’s vital that we understand the effects of climate change on a macroeconomic level

With opioid addiction reaching crisis point in the US, Dr Cláudia Custódio and Moritz Wiedemann consider the impact on the economy, and what the link between opioid use and house prices can tell us.

Climate change models suggest temperatures will gradually rise, but the agriculture sector is not prepared for the acute risk of extreme weather events

Economic growth theory supplies a useful tool for thinking about how actions in the past affect the future

Our new research shows individual banking executives with connections to the US Treasury made unusually large gains during and after the 2008 Troubled Asset Relief Program

No company wants to be the dirtiest on the block. If there were a clear and consistent way to gauge and reward skills, ideas and thinking, 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

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