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Is Monetary Policy Climate Neutral? : Focus on ECB’s quantitative easing.

Climate change is a major concern impacting every aspect of life including economics. Therefore, it seems interesting to discuss the role of monetary policy in global warming mitigation. Previous papers hint that monetary policy, especially the European Central Bank’s quantitative easing, may have a bad impact on the environment. Here we will check this statement using two simple linear regressions to see if quantitative easing has an impact on carbon emissions and firm’s willingness to pollute, in the Eurozone. We find that quantitative ease has no or very small effect on these environmental features. Finally, we will give an overview of the discussion around how quantitative easing and central banks’ actions can actively reduce climate change.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:lnu-105880
Date January 2021
CreatorsMaillol, Clemence
PublisherLinnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för nationalekonomi och statistik (NS)
Source SetsDiVA Archive at Upsalla University
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeStudent thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text
Formatapplication/pdf
Rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess

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