Mathias Larsen
@mathiaslarsen.bsky.social
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Postdoc at Brown University's Watson Institute. Working on the political economy of financing green transition in China and other global South countries
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“Chinese overseas FDI is nearing $100 billion per year. The Marshall Plan was $200b—and locked Europe into US tech and standards. When we see sums of this size, we can ask whether it will have a similar effect on the globe.”

NEW: @70sbachchan.bsky.social & @mathiaslarsen.bsky.social on the BRI 2.0
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I’m excited to have started a job at the LSE as a Senior Policy Fellow, leading the China work at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change & the Environment @granthamlse.bsky.social
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A pleasure to contribute to the blog!
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New op-ed published in @carnegieendowment.org's China blog, edited by @michaelpettis.bsky.social: “How China’s Growth Model Determines Its Climate Performance: Rather than climate ambitions, compatibility with investment and exports is why China supports both green and high-emission technologies.”
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New policy report just published with groundbreaking data showing that China's new global role in the green transition is investing in manufacturing, not financing infrastructure: "China’s Green Leap Outward"
www.netzeropolicylab.com/china-green-...
China Green Leap Outward — Net Zero Industrial Policy Lab
A new China Low Carbon Technology FDI Database
www.netzeropolicylab.com
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New op-ed out in The Diplomat @thediplomat.com: 'China’s Political System Makes Consumption-led Growth Impossible: Beijing’s prioritization of political security necessitates a reliance on investment and exports – not consumption – to power the economy.'

thediplomat.com/2025/08/chin...
China’s Political System Makes Consumption-led Growth Impossible
Beijing’s prioritization of political security necessitates a reliance on investment and exports – not consumption – to power the economy.
thediplomat.com
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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...
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
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I only got involved in the topic after reading your article.
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I'll be in Beijing all of May and June as a visiting scholar at Peking University's Carbon Neutrality Institute. Let me know if you're in town or if you know someone I should meet.
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NEW ARTICLE out in Capital & Class revisiting the debate on whether China is capitalist or socialist: ‘Reconsidering the ‘China model’ through structure and agency: The hybrid realities of Chinese capitalism and ‘socialism with Chinese characteristics’

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We have another phenomenal panel on green finance tomorrow morning at #ISA2025! We're bringing the energy with papers on solar investment, state-owned investment banks, the Bridgetown Initiative, sovereign green bonds, and more!

8:15 am in the Mobley Room!