Investing in low-carbon transitions: energy finance as an adaptive market

Climate Policy

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 280-298

  Hall, Stephen ^a   Foxon, Timothy J ^a,b   Bolton, Ronan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

adaptive market hypothesis; efficient markets hypothesis; energy finance; investment; planetary economics

Indexed keywords

CAPITAL; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENERGY POLICY; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; FINANCE; INVESTMENT; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84945426686     PISSN: 14693062     EISSN: 17527457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2015.1094731     Document Type: Article

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