Monthly Archives: novembre 2025

The Cultural Roots of Deforestation in Africa

We study the relationship between culture and environmental conservation through the lens of deforestation. Focusing on Sub-Saharan Africa over the period 2001-2021, we show that changes of national leaders affect deforestation in a way that depends on the environmental culture of their ethnic group’s. Our results suggest that culture is an important lever for environmental conservation in Africa.

Stranded Assets and Central Banks: from Lenders of Last Resort to ‘Green’ Balance Sheet Policies in Support of Decarbonization

Chercheurs associésJézabel Couppey-SoubeyranNon classéPublicationsRégulations financières et financements innovantsResearch areaWorking papersCommentaires fermés sur Stranded Assets and Central Banks: from Lenders of Last Resort to ‘Green’ Balance Sheet Policies in Support of Decarbonization

This article  analyses the role that central banks could play in dealing with stranded « brown »assets as a result of the ecological transition.The estimates provided thtough a database that we are building for the analyses suggest that central banks, as « liquidators of last resort » of stranded asset markets, would inject volumes of liquidity comparable to those they injected to deal with previous crises.