Towards a new framework to account for environmental risk in sovereign credit risk analysis

Journal of Sustainable Finance and Investment

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 147-160

  Hill Clarvis, Margot ^a,b   Halle, Martin ^c   Mulder, Ivo ^b   Yarime, Masaru ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b DEWA/GRID Europe   (Switzerland)

^c Global Footprint Network   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

resource risks; sovereign credit worthiness analysis; sustainability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84928316520     PISSN: 20430795     EISSN: 20430809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/20430795.2013.837810     Document Type: Article

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