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Irene Monasterolo

Professor of Climate Finance, Utrecht University
Verified email at uu.nl
Cited by 4213

Climate change and the financial system

I Monasterolo - Annual Review of Resource Economics, 2020 - annualreviews.org
The financial system could help achieve the global climate targets by aligning investments to
sustainability. However, investors are largely exposed to carbon-intensive assets that could …

A climate stress-test of the financial system

S Battiston, A Mandel, I Monasterolo, F Schütze… - Nature Climate …, 2017 - nature.com
The urgency of estimating the impact of climate risks on the financial system is increasingly
recognized among scholars and practitioners. By adopting a network approach to financial …

Emergence of new economics energy transition models: A review

S Hafner, A Anger-Kraavi, I Monasterolo, A Jones - Ecological Economics, 2020 - Elsevier
Well-known academic and non-academic institutions call for a new approach in economics
able to capture features of modern economies including, but not limited to, complexity, non-…

Climate risks and financial stability

S Battiston, Y Dafermos, I Monasterolo - Journal of Financial Stability, 2021 - Elsevier
Climate change has been recently recognised as a new source of risk for the financial system.
Over the last years, several central banks and financial supervisors have recommended …

Accounting for finance is key for climate mitigation pathways

S Battiston, I Monasterolo, K Riahi, BJ van Ruijven - Science, 2021 - science.org
The financial system—the ecosystem of investors (eg, banks, investment funds, insurance),
markets, and instruments—is often considered to play an enabling role in climate mitigation …

[HTML][HTML] Lessons from COVID-19 for managing transboundary climate risks and building resilience

…, TR Carter, P Magnuszewski, I Monasterolo… - Climate Risk …, 2022 - Elsevier
COVID-19 has revealed how challenging it is to manage global, systemic and compounding
crises. Like COVID-19, climate change impacts, and maladaptive responses to them, have …

Blind to carbon risk? An analysis of stock market reaction to the Paris Agreement

I Monasterolo, L De Angelis - Ecological Economics, 2020 - Elsevier
It is increasingly recognized that a transition to sustainable finance is crucial to scale up the
low-carbon investments needed to achieve the global climate targets. A main barrier to …

Climate sentiments, transition risk, and financial stability in a stock-flow consistent model

N Dunz, A Naqvi, I Monasterolo - Journal of Financial Stability, 2021 - Elsevier
A successful low-carbon transition requires the introduction of policies aimed at aligning
investments to the climate and sustainability targets. In this regard, a global Carbon Tax (CT) …

The EIRIN flow-of-funds behavioural model of green fiscal policies and green sovereign bonds

I Monasterolo, M Raberto - Ecological Economics, 2018 - Elsevier
Fiscal and monetary policies, as well as new financial instruments, could play a key role to
meet the Paris Agreement. However, deep uncertainty characterizes their design and their …

The impact of phasing out fossil fuel subsidies on the low-carbon transition

I Monasterolo, M Raberto - Energy Policy, 2019 - Elsevier
There is growing consensus on the fact that fossil fuel subsidies provided by governments
in high-income countries represent a misalignment on emissions’ reduction with the global …