PhD defence: Stine Quorning

In order to obtain the PhD degree, Stine Quorning has submitted her thesis entitled:

Managing Climate Change Like a Central Banker.

The Political Economy of Greening the Monetary Technocracy

As the short- and long-term consequences of climate change become increasingly clear, central banks have started to engage with climate change leaving central bankers in an unprecedented situation: working with a policy domain outside their immediate knowledge remits. It is against this background that this dissertation investigates how central bankers have approached the work with climate change and the extent to which central banks have been repurposed. The dissertation draws on insights from International Political Economy and takes a micro-level analytical approach constructed around three factors: practices, expertise, and legibility. The dissertation argues that central bankers have treated climate change as a risk issue. In doing so, central bankers have been able to work with climate change using their existing expertise. Thus, the necessary fundamental changes to the conduct of central banking in the age of anthropogenic climate change remain absent.

Primary Supervisor:
Associate Professor Cornel Ban
Department of Organization
Copenhagen Business School

Secondary Supervisors:

Professor with special responsibilities Eleni Tsingou
Department of Organization
Copenhagen Business School

Assessment Committee:

Associate Professor Lasse Folke Henriksen (Chair)
Department of Organization
Copenhagen Business School

Professor Eric Helleiner
Department of Political Science
University of Waterloo

Associate Professor Manuela Moschella
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Scuola Normale Superiora

Thesis:
The thesis will be available from research.cbs.dk

Reception:
The CBS PhD School will host a reception, which will take place immediately after the defence in kitchen area of IOA (4th floor).