Manuscript Topics

The energy transition is the required revolution to potentially address nowadays concerns associated with energy costs, global warming, energy security, etc. Decision makers aspiring to guide such epochal change need to put in place and ensure the right enabling environment for capital to flow and feed such transition. At the very beginning of the transition processes, policy makers are expected to concentrate on push factors to provide regulatory support, such as targets and subsidies. Then, as a result, pull factors (country and sectorspecific determinants) will become paramount in accounting for the dynamics of global capital flows. Financial markets themselves are important pillars to build the change. As capital moves, it accelerates the wind of change by allocating new capital to growing industries while reducing it from those in decline as a creative destruction. Nowadays financial markets are signaling it with remarkable stock market performance of renewables and the low performance of traditional energy assets (i.e. fossil fuel sector). A growing interest in securing financing of “green” sustainable renewable energy projects can be also observed in the bond market. As a result, the different types of financial markets can play a pivotal role in defining the capital allocation required to foster the sustainable shift. Little research has been conducted so far to considerably contribute in improving our understanding of the closing the loop between financial markets and energy transitions.

This special issue wishes to include original research articles, as well as review articles, covering topics relevant for financial economy and energy transition. The manuscript might report experimental results, theoretical analysis, modelling, and technical review. Specifically, the potential authors may address topics with emphasis on, but not limited to, the following:

• Financial perspectives on energy transition and related trajectories towards sustainability;
• Opportunities and challenges of the financial markets in the energy industry;
• Appropriateness of green finance to foster energy transitions;
• Financial models for the development of renewable energies;
• The role of financial system for the post pandemic green recovery;
• Social dimension of the energy transition;
• Financing energy transitions for energy security in time of war.

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