Director: Dr Ulrich Volz
Deputy Director: Dr Harald Heubaum
Environmental economics, Development economics, Economics of hydropower development, Energy economics, Transport economics, Economics of sustainable business, Sustainable economic development policy in developing countries, Climate change.
Political Economy; Emerging finance capitalism; Privatization; Alternative development; Banking, finance, and development; Mexico, Turkey, other emerging capitalisms; State-capital-labour relations; State theory; Internationalization.
Mega Trends in Global Finance; Inclusive Finance; Financial Institutions, Markets and Instruments; Financial Modelling & Forecasting
Growth and distribution; theory of competition; finance and innovation in the energy sector; Bayesian inference
Energy and climate policy in Europe, the Asia-Pacific and the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region; institutional change and innovation in global energy, climate and financial governance; climate and sustainable finance; ESG standards and financial performance; decarbonisation of transport; public policy
International Finance, Open Economy Macroeconomics, Financial Market Development and Stability, Development and Transition Economics, Global Economic Governance, East Asian Financial Markets
Global finance, sustainability and climate change; energy and climate policy and governance; energy transition; systemic change; climate risk, financial resilience; the economics of climate change; data for climate and sustainable finance.
Research: climate change policy and planning, anticipatory decision-making, urban resilience, policy processes and political economy.
Industrial organisation and policy, innovation, sustainable development and corporate governance, including the governance and regulation of sport
Financial macroeconomics; Climate change and finance; Ecological macroeconomics; Shadow banking; Inequality.
