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

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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.