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Bob Hancké, PEACS 27 February 2025   Assume that we have successfully navigated the pre- and early-transition problems and are fully...

Bob Hancké, PEACS 25 February 2025     The green transition will not be cheap, at least not in the short run. In a report from early...

Bob Hancké, PEACS 21 February 2025     Like every transition, the green transition incorporates a tension that is best captured in the...

Bob Hancké 18 February 2025   What are the problems you may encounter once you engage in the green transition, after having left behind...

Bob Hancké, PEACS 14 February 2025   The abstract time inconsistency problem, and the asymmetric distribution of long- and short-term...

Bob Hancké, PEACS 11 February 2025   Just as in any other transition, the losses that we incur today are extremely clear; the gains,...

Bob Hancké, PEACS 7 February 2025     The green transition may be new and unique, but we actually have quite a few analytical tools in...

Bob Hancké, PEACS 4 February 2025 How have we made sense of the green transition its potential and its problems up until now? Ever since...

Bob Hancké PEACS   February – March 2025 The world is burning. Stopping that requires, among other things, a reduction of the carbon...

It’s official: central banks have become monuments to utter confusion.