Abstract. This article examines the political economy of “greening” central banking as a contested project dynamically evolving on the spectrum between neo

Life in the Chinese solar tech business is like a gladiator's life. So what?

Brussels and National Capitals Needs to Learn about Whole Value Chain Planning to Stay Relevant

Can the US do hemispheric strategy in the Southern Cone like it's 1957?

Forget decoupling. German automakers go back to China to stay alive in the EV race.

The yard keeps growing. And the fence around China keeps shrinking.

Don't hold your breath for a monetray hegemony transition, say Tobias Pforr, Fabian Pape, Johannes Petry

How the Old Continent Risks Becoming the New East Germany

How the American State Keeps Milei’s Libertarian Revolution Solvent

Frankfurt measured the risk, Beijing moved the money, and Washington looked away.

How Beijing fused planning and venture capital, outflanking the West’s innovation game

How Washington Built Chinese Leverage Over...Washington (on Tan, Dallas, Farrell, Newman)

The contradictions of China's decarbonisation

Cornel Ban, associate prof at Copenhagen Business School and fellow at Boston University's China Initiative at the Global Development Program. Click to read Geoeconomic, a Substack publication with hu...

This paper examines China’s distinctive approach to financing innovation, contributing to debates on the derisking state, neo-developmentalist alternatives, and economic statecraft. It focuses on t...

Normally taciturn officials spar online over climate policy and reveal a deep split within the EU.

Ørsted blames interest rates, supply chains and ‘market uncertainties’ for latest writedown of US business

News, analysis and opinion from the Financial Times on the latest in markets, economics and politics

The company built a cheaper, competitive chatbot with fewer high-end computer chips than U.S. behemoths like Google and OpenAI, showing the limits of chip export control.

This article analyses the IMF’s economic thinking on climate policy to explore the scope and limits of working towards green transition within global economic governance institutions. It distils th...

China's battery packs plummet in price again. Hydrogen prices didn't decline and BNEF triples its estimates for future costs. The implications are huge.

Economists have drawn the wrong lessons from the failures of the 1930s.

From Cornel Ban, Associate Professor, Department of Organisation, Copenhagen Business School, Frederiksberg, Denmark

Sustainable futures require deep social and economic transformations to address climate change adequately. The current landscape of intergovernmental and market-based coordination is not delivering...

How policy elites occupy positions within broader governance architectures is important in understanding how crisis management regimes are produced to respond to macroeconomic woes. We examine the ...