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Greenwashing Risks in the Corporate Green Bond Markets: An Expenditure-Based Analysis
The green bond market has witnessed remarkable growth in recent years, channelling billions of capitals into climate finance. Yet, greenwashing risk—where issuers make unsubstantiated claims about their environmental commitments—remains a major challenge to market credibility and the allocative efficiency ...
https://iems.ust.hk/events/academic-seminar/2026/keith-jin-deng-chan-greenwashing-risk
Capital Accumulation, Private Property and Rising Inequality in China, 1978-2015
This paper combines national accounts, survey, wealth and fiscal data (including recently released tax data on high-income taxpayers) in order to provide consistent series on the accumulation and distribution of income and wealth in China over the 1978-2015 period. We find that the aggregate national wealth-income ...
https://iems.ust.hk/publications/iems-working-papers/piketty-yang-zucman-capital-accumulation-private-property-inequality-china
Rising Inequality in China and Globally — Highlights from World Inequality Report 2018
Event Summary The World Inequality Report 2018 seeks to fill a democratic gap and to equip various actors of society with the necessary facts to engage in informed public debates on inequality. In their academic seminar, Lucas Chancel and Yang Li (Paris School of Economics) presented highlights from The World ...
https://iems.ust.hk/events/academic-seminar/2018/chancel-rising-inequality-in-china-and-globally-highlights-from-world-inequality-report-2018-wid
Business and Wealth in Russia and China: Skolkovo-HKUST Joint Workshop
About the Workshop HKUST IEMS and the Moscow School of Management Skolkovo convened a joint-workshop at the HKUST campus from March 9 to March 10. The workshop featured faculty and experts from Skolkovo and HKUST discussing their research on a variety of topics as related to Russia, China, and other emerging market ...
https://iems.ust.hk/events/conference/2015/business-wealth-in-russia-china
BloombergBusiness quotes IEMS’ David Zweig on reasoning behind calls for greater redistribution in Hong Kong by the city’s richest man, Li Ka-shing
BloombergBusiness reports that Li Ka-shing, the richest man in Hong Kong as well as the whole of Asia, is extremely concerned with what he sees as an untenable disparity of wealth in the city. IEMS’ David Zweig was contacted to provide some context for Li Ka-shing’s worries for Hong Kong’s economic, ...
https://iems.ust.hk/updates/media-coverage/2014/bloombergbusiness-quotes-iems-david-zweig-on-reasoning-behind-calls-for-greater-redistribution-in-hong-kong-by-the-city-s-richest-man-li-ka-shing
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