Olan McEvoy
@olanmcevoy.bsky.social
Corkonian exiled in Mitteleuropa | Political economy of the Green Transition, macro-finance, geoeconomics | Researcher at Global Climate Forum, Berlin
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Gemeinsam mit Armin Haas und @steffenmurau.bsky.social argumentieren wir in einer neuen Studie bei der @swp-berlin.org, dass solche Einrichtungen auch heute wieder eine Rolle spielen könnten:
👉 Link: www.swp-berlin.org/publikation/...
👉 Link: www.swp-berlin.org/publikation/...
Mehr Macht, weniger Markt – Denken und Handeln in der geoökonomischen Zeitenwende
Die Rückkehr von Macht auf den Markt ist das Wesensmerkmal einer geoökonomischen Zeitenwende, wie sie die internationale Politik derzeit...
www.swp-berlin.org
November 14, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Gemeinsam mit Armin Haas und @steffenmurau.bsky.social argumentieren wir in einer neuen Studie bei der @swp-berlin.org, dass solche Einrichtungen auch heute wieder eine Rolle spielen könnten:
👉 Link: www.swp-berlin.org/publikation/...
👉 Link: www.swp-berlin.org/publikation/...
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Nimmt der Staat zu viele Schulden auf? Ob das tragfähig ist, ist eine Frage des Finanzsystems. Das entscheidende Stichwort lautet »Fundierung«, schreiben @steffenmurau.bsky.social und Moritz Kapff.
Hyperinflation durch neue Schulden? 4 Sichtweisen auf nachhaltige Staatsfinanzen
Nimmt der Staat zu viele Schulden auf? Ob das tragfähig ist, ist eine Frage des Finanzsystems. Das entscheidende Stichwort lautet »Fundierung«.
www.surplusmagazin.de
October 31, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Nimmt der Staat zu viele Schulden auf? Ob das tragfähig ist, ist eine Frage des Finanzsystems. Das entscheidende Stichwort lautet »Fundierung«, schreiben @steffenmurau.bsky.social und Moritz Kapff.
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The growth of wind and solar power is happening rapidly in all kinds of countries. Except one. Which tells its own story
www.ft.com/content/c406...
www.ft.com/content/c406...
October 29, 2025 at 8:26 AM
The growth of wind and solar power is happening rapidly in all kinds of countries. Except one. Which tells its own story
www.ft.com/content/c406...
www.ft.com/content/c406...
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NEW: The first evidence of a solar take-off in Africa☀️✈️
x33 rise in Algeria solar panel imports in the 12 mths to June 2025, compared to previous 12 mths.
x8 in Zambia
x7 in Botswana
x6 in Sudan
x3 in each of Liberia, DRC, Benin, Angola, Ethiopia
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x33 rise in Algeria solar panel imports in the 12 mths to June 2025, compared to previous 12 mths.
x8 in Zambia
x7 in Botswana
x6 in Sudan
x3 in each of Liberia, DRC, Benin, Angola, Ethiopia
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August 26, 2025 at 7:23 AM
NEW: The first evidence of a solar take-off in Africa☀️✈️
x33 rise in Algeria solar panel imports in the 12 mths to June 2025, compared to previous 12 mths.
x8 in Zambia
x7 in Botswana
x6 in Sudan
x3 in each of Liberia, DRC, Benin, Angola, Ethiopia
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x33 rise in Algeria solar panel imports in the 12 mths to June 2025, compared to previous 12 mths.
x8 in Zambia
x7 in Botswana
x6 in Sudan
x3 in each of Liberia, DRC, Benin, Angola, Ethiopia
🧵
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What does a Nobel Prize on ‘innovation-driven economic growth’ actually reward?
A historian’s perspective on how to deal with the Nobel frenzy
beatricecherrier.wordpress.com/2025/10/13/w...
A historian’s perspective on how to deal with the Nobel frenzy
beatricecherrier.wordpress.com/2025/10/13/w...
October 14, 2025 at 12:00 AM
What does a Nobel Prize on ‘innovation-driven economic growth’ actually reward?
A historian’s perspective on how to deal with the Nobel frenzy
beatricecherrier.wordpress.com/2025/10/13/w...
A historian’s perspective on how to deal with the Nobel frenzy
beatricecherrier.wordpress.com/2025/10/13/w...
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New report out now with @granthamlse.bsky.social CETEx: "A framework for central banks navigating political uncertainty in the transition"
cetex.org/publications...
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A framework for central banks navigating political uncertainty in the transition - CETEx
This report recommends three principles for coping with the political uncertainty faced by central bankers.
cetex.org
October 14, 2025 at 9:48 AM
New report out now with @granthamlse.bsky.social CETEx: "A framework for central banks navigating political uncertainty in the transition"
cetex.org/publications...
cetex.org/publications...
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Over the past few years, Beijing has been mirroring the U.S. economic-security toolkit. China is developing its own architecture to manage risk, preserve chokepoints, and respond in kind. It's also learning from the United States.
October 12, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Over the past few years, Beijing has been mirroring the U.S. economic-security toolkit. China is developing its own architecture to manage risk, preserve chokepoints, and respond in kind. It's also learning from the United States.
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🇵🇱 My @thetimes column: Poland’s economic miracle
12 out of 17 Polish regions are now richer than West Wales. It has faster internet, cheaper electricity and more high speed rail than Britain
When it comes to regional development it’s the UK, not Poland, that needs to catch up
1/3
12 out of 17 Polish regions are now richer than West Wales. It has faster internet, cheaper electricity and more high speed rail than Britain
When it comes to regional development it’s the UK, not Poland, that needs to catch up
1/3
October 12, 2025 at 11:59 AM
🇵🇱 My @thetimes column: Poland’s economic miracle
12 out of 17 Polish regions are now richer than West Wales. It has faster internet, cheaper electricity and more high speed rail than Britain
When it comes to regional development it’s the UK, not Poland, that needs to catch up
1/3
12 out of 17 Polish regions are now richer than West Wales. It has faster internet, cheaper electricity and more high speed rail than Britain
When it comes to regional development it’s the UK, not Poland, that needs to catch up
1/3
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It's absolutely astonishing: In just about 13 years, Norway has skyrocketed from virtually no sales of zero-emission battery electric vehicles to nearly 100% of all new passenger car purchases.
September 23, 2025 at 5:47 AM
It's absolutely astonishing: In just about 13 years, Norway has skyrocketed from virtually no sales of zero-emission battery electric vehicles to nearly 100% of all new passenger car purchases.
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Thrilled that my first article is out in @jeppjournal.bsky.social ☺️
It looks at why renewable energy buildout in Europe has been *so* unsteady - tracing the evolution of/conflict over the regime for RE derisking over the last two+ decades...
It's open access! 👉 doi.org/10.1080/1350...
Short 🧵 ...
It looks at why renewable energy buildout in Europe has been *so* unsteady - tracing the evolution of/conflict over the regime for RE derisking over the last two+ decades...
It's open access! 👉 doi.org/10.1080/1350...
Short 🧵 ...
September 10, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Thrilled that my first article is out in @jeppjournal.bsky.social ☺️
It looks at why renewable energy buildout in Europe has been *so* unsteady - tracing the evolution of/conflict over the regime for RE derisking over the last two+ decades...
It's open access! 👉 doi.org/10.1080/1350...
Short 🧵 ...
It looks at why renewable energy buildout in Europe has been *so* unsteady - tracing the evolution of/conflict over the regime for RE derisking over the last two+ decades...
It's open access! 👉 doi.org/10.1080/1350...
Short 🧵 ...
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I'm really pleased to be featured in @justmoney.bsky.social's current scholarship post. Looking at the Bank of Japan and Fed archives, I argue that QE was always linked to public-sector support, but that effect was deliberately suppressed in central banks' public research and other comms.
🚨Current scholarship! In this article, Prof. Bateman explores the communication strategies through which central bankers in Japan and the US downplayed the fiscal effects of quantitative easing programs, raising interesting questions about central bank independence and the fiscal/monetary divide. 🏦💸
Current ScholarshipCommunication tools: a genealogy of quantitative easing
Will Bateman
justmoney.org
August 25, 2025 at 1:56 AM
I'm really pleased to be featured in @justmoney.bsky.social's current scholarship post. Looking at the Bank of Japan and Fed archives, I argue that QE was always linked to public-sector support, but that effect was deliberately suppressed in central banks' public research and other comms.
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Just out: How China builds strategic dominance in high-innovation niches fracturing the economic status quo in the world: Government Guidance Funds turn fiscal money + SOE assets into venture capital with planning discipline. A different game than Europe or Korea. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Financing technological innovation in China: neo-developmental financial statecraft through government guidance funds
This paper examines China’s distinctive approach to financing innovation, contributing to debates on the derisking state, neo-developmentalist alternatives, and economic statecraft. It focuses on t...
www.tandfonline.com
August 28, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Just out: How China builds strategic dominance in high-innovation niches fracturing the economic status quo in the world: Government Guidance Funds turn fiscal money + SOE assets into venture capital with planning discipline. A different game than Europe or Korea. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The amount of cash pouring into renewable energy products has reached a new record high.
$386 billion USD was invested during the first half of 2025 alone, a 10% jump from the same time last year, according to new data from BNEF.
The boom is mainly being driven by fast, small-scale solar.
$386 billion USD was invested during the first half of 2025 alone, a 10% jump from the same time last year, according to new data from BNEF.
The boom is mainly being driven by fast, small-scale solar.
August 27, 2025 at 3:15 AM
The amount of cash pouring into renewable energy products has reached a new record high.
$386 billion USD was invested during the first half of 2025 alone, a 10% jump from the same time last year, according to new data from BNEF.
The boom is mainly being driven by fast, small-scale solar.
$386 billion USD was invested during the first half of 2025 alone, a 10% jump from the same time last year, according to new data from BNEF.
The boom is mainly being driven by fast, small-scale solar.
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Southern Europe is on fire
August 19, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Southern Europe is on fire
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nice to see our climate litigation against ING has not gone unnoticed in this interesting review of CSO campaigns against banks (p.4) - too bad the article focuses on reputational issues without taking account of other impacts of campaigns journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Civil society versus banks: Bottom-up pressure in sustainable finance - Roy Gava, 2025
Banks worldwide are increasingly under the scrutiny of CSOs (Civil Society Organizations). This bottom-up pressure remains overlooked in the rapidly expanding l...
journals.sagepub.com
August 16, 2025 at 11:41 AM
nice to see our climate litigation against ING has not gone unnoticed in this interesting review of CSO campaigns against banks (p.4) - too bad the article focuses on reputational issues without taking account of other impacts of campaigns journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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🧵1) Today @davidrbakersf.bsky.social & I published a deep dive on green hydrogen. Depending on who you ask, the fuel is either a crucial solution to reduce greenhouse gases or an overpriced, overhyped distraction. Here are some key takeaways so you can decide.
www.bloomberg.com/explainers/g...
www.bloomberg.com/explainers/g...
Is The World’s Green Hydrogen Dream Fizzling Out?
Green hydrogen was meant to clean up dirty sectors like steel and shipping. But costs are high, investment is falling, and projects are stalling. Is it the fuel of the future — or a climate bet gone b...
www.bloomberg.com
August 13, 2025 at 6:08 AM
🧵1) Today @davidrbakersf.bsky.social & I published a deep dive on green hydrogen. Depending on who you ask, the fuel is either a crucial solution to reduce greenhouse gases or an overpriced, overhyped distraction. Here are some key takeaways so you can decide.
www.bloomberg.com/explainers/g...
www.bloomberg.com/explainers/g...
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Last week, we examined the 8 companies that Ireland invests in that have links to illegal Israeli settlements.
Here's an update on these investments following the publication of the National Treasury Management Agency's latest annual report:
Here's an update on these investments following the publication of the National Treasury Management Agency's latest annual report:
Irish sovereign wealth fund stops investing in two more companies linked to Israeli settlements
However, it continued to invest in another four.
www.thejournal.ie
July 18, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Last week, we examined the 8 companies that Ireland invests in that have links to illegal Israeli settlements.
Here's an update on these investments following the publication of the National Treasury Management Agency's latest annual report:
Here's an update on these investments following the publication of the National Treasury Management Agency's latest annual report:
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In my latest op-ed just out in Environmental Finance, Calvin Quek and I asses what policy tools are most central in how China finances green industries. Taxonomies, disclosure, and green bonds get most attention but these are not that impactful.
www.environmental-finance.com/content/anal...
www.environmental-finance.com/content/anal...
What other countries can learn from how China financed a green transformation
China's green transformation has come about more from financing green than greening finance, write <strong>Calvin Quek</strong> and <strong>Mathias Larsen</strong>
www.environmental-finance.com
June 30, 2025 at 12:56 PM
In my latest op-ed just out in Environmental Finance, Calvin Quek and I asses what policy tools are most central in how China finances green industries. Taxonomies, disclosure, and green bonds get most attention but these are not that impactful.
www.environmental-finance.com/content/anal...
www.environmental-finance.com/content/anal...
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In the age of asset manager capitalism, do asset owners still matter? And what does this mean for the green transition?
@nataschavanderzwan.bsky.social and I investigate this through an in-depth study of how some of the most important asset owners - pension funds - invest.
Now out in SER!
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@nataschavanderzwan.bsky.social and I investigate this through an in-depth study of how some of the most important asset owners - pension funds - invest.
Now out in SER!
🧵
June 26, 2025 at 9:52 AM
In the age of asset manager capitalism, do asset owners still matter? And what does this mean for the green transition?
@nataschavanderzwan.bsky.social and I investigate this through an in-depth study of how some of the most important asset owners - pension funds - invest.
Now out in SER!
🧵
@nataschavanderzwan.bsky.social and I investigate this through an in-depth study of how some of the most important asset owners - pension funds - invest.
Now out in SER!
🧵
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Since the great financial crisis, much has been written in CPE on the fate of South European economies. Have they really morphed into export-led growth models? With what outcomes? Are their trajectories convergent? In this new DP, we use granular data to put claims from the literature to the test 🧵
In a new MPIfG Discussion Paper, @fbulfone.bsky.social, @m-stratenwerth.bsky.social, and @aritassinari.bsky.social trace the growth trajectories of Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain from the financial crisis to the covid pandemic.
🔗 pure.mpg.de/pubman/faces...
🔗 pure.mpg.de/pubman/faces...
June 26, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Since the great financial crisis, much has been written in CPE on the fate of South European economies. Have they really morphed into export-led growth models? With what outcomes? Are their trajectories convergent? In this new DP, we use granular data to put claims from the literature to the test 🧵
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Pay varies hugely across England: in 2024 weekly pay was just £610 in Liskeard to £1,130 in London.
Is this because high‑earning areas attract inherently higher‑earning people, or because the jobs located there pay more to any worker?
Our new @resfoundation.bsky.social report finds out.
Is this because high‑earning areas attract inherently higher‑earning people, or because the jobs located there pay more to any worker?
Our new @resfoundation.bsky.social report finds out.
June 23, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Pay varies hugely across England: in 2024 weekly pay was just £610 in Liskeard to £1,130 in London.
Is this because high‑earning areas attract inherently higher‑earning people, or because the jobs located there pay more to any worker?
Our new @resfoundation.bsky.social report finds out.
Is this because high‑earning areas attract inherently higher‑earning people, or because the jobs located there pay more to any worker?
Our new @resfoundation.bsky.social report finds out.
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If you're struggling to have faith in humanity today, here's 2 facts:
☀️ In June solar power generated more electricity globally than nuclear - it's now the world’s 4th largest power source
🔋 Ireland is the latest coal-free country around and there are 15 in Europe.
Progress is slow but possible 💫
☀️ In June solar power generated more electricity globally than nuclear - it's now the world’s 4th largest power source
🔋 Ireland is the latest coal-free country around and there are 15 in Europe.
Progress is slow but possible 💫
June 23, 2025 at 11:34 AM
If you're struggling to have faith in humanity today, here's 2 facts:
☀️ In June solar power generated more electricity globally than nuclear - it's now the world’s 4th largest power source
🔋 Ireland is the latest coal-free country around and there are 15 in Europe.
Progress is slow but possible 💫
☀️ In June solar power generated more electricity globally than nuclear - it's now the world’s 4th largest power source
🔋 Ireland is the latest coal-free country around and there are 15 in Europe.
Progress is slow but possible 💫
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"The last coal plant in the country has officially closed...after more than 40 years in operation, state utility ESB said. Also this year, Italy will shut two major stations, and Spain’s remaining ones will be decommissioned or transformed into gas plants."
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www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Ireland Shuts Last Coal Plant as Europe’s Phaseout Accelerates
Ireland became the latest European country to put an end to coal-fired power generation, with Spain and Italy set to follow soon.
www.bloomberg.com
June 21, 2025 at 6:09 PM
"The last coal plant in the country has officially closed...after more than 40 years in operation, state utility ESB said. Also this year, Italy will shut two major stations, and Spain’s remaining ones will be decommissioned or transformed into gas plants."
🔌💡
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
🔌💡
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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📊NEW ANALYSIS📊
Just 3% of the UK population take 30% of the fights. When this government expands UK airports, this 3% benefit the most.
Who are these people? Introducing... the ultra-frequent flyer. Our research with Possible. 1/5
Just 3% of the UK population take 30% of the fights. When this government expands UK airports, this 3% benefit the most.
Who are these people? Introducing... the ultra-frequent flyer. Our research with Possible. 1/5
June 18, 2025 at 9:47 AM
📊NEW ANALYSIS📊
Just 3% of the UK population take 30% of the fights. When this government expands UK airports, this 3% benefit the most.
Who are these people? Introducing... the ultra-frequent flyer. Our research with Possible. 1/5
Just 3% of the UK population take 30% of the fights. When this government expands UK airports, this 3% benefit the most.
Who are these people? Introducing... the ultra-frequent flyer. Our research with Possible. 1/5
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Very happy to see that the article @moritzecon.bsky.social and I have written on Germany's "fiscal ecosystem" has just been published online and in print in Surplus Magazine
www.surplusmagazin.de/staat-schatt...
www.surplusmagazin.de/staat-schatt...
Das fiskalische Ökosystem
Schattenhaushalte sind keine Ausnahme, sondern seit Jahrzehnten fester Bestandteil der Staatsfinanzen. Sie spiegeln die deutsche Geschichte.
www.surplusmagazin.de
June 17, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Very happy to see that the article @moritzecon.bsky.social and I have written on Germany's "fiscal ecosystem" has just been published online and in print in Surplus Magazine
www.surplusmagazin.de/staat-schatt...
www.surplusmagazin.de/staat-schatt...