Publications
The research by members of the climaTRACES Lab has been published in a number of edited volumes as well as in leading journals across many fields.
2025
Trust is scientists and their role in society in 68 countries. Cologna, V., (...), Debnath, R. , (...), Zwaan, R.A., (2025), Nature Human Behaviour
The Future of Energy? Building Resilience to ExxonMobil’s Disinformation through Disclosures and Inoculation. Amazeen, M., (...), Debnath, R. , (...), Wells, C., (2025). npj Climate Action
Enabling people-centric climate action using human-in-the-loop AI: A review. Debnath, R. , Tkachenko, N and Bhattacharyya, M., (2025). Current Opinion in Behavioural Sciences
.Energy mapping of existing building stock in Cambridge using energy performance certificates and thermal infrared imagery. He, Y., (...), Debnath, R., and Parry, I., (2025). Environmental Data Science
2024
Bridging the gender, climate, and health gap: the road to COP29 . van Daalen, K.R., ..., Debnath, R. , ..., Lowe, R., (2024), The Lancet Planetary Health
Underestimation of personal carbon footprint inequality in four diverse countries, Nielsen, K.S., Bauer, J.M., Debnath, R. , Emogor, C.A., Geiger, S.M., Ghai, S., Gwozdz, W., and Hahnel, U.J.J. (2024), Nature Climate Change.
A global fairtrade partnership needed to address injustices in the supply chains of clean energy technology materials, Nsude, C.C., Wimhurst, J.J., and Debnath, R. (2024), MRS Energy & Sustainability, Springer.
A better count of heat-related deaths needed to help the vulnerable, Debnath, R., and Lin, YT. (2024), Nature India.
Renewables but unjust? Critical restoration geography as a framework for addressing global renewable energy injustice, Nsude, C.C., Loraamm, R., Wimhurst, J.J., Chukwuonye, G.N., and Debnath, R. (2024), Energy Research & Social Science 114, 103609.
Identifying American climate change free riders and motivating sustainable behavior, Magistro, B., Abramson, C., Ebanks, D., Debnath, R., and Alvarez, R.M. (2024), Scientific Reports, Nature Portfolio 14, 6575.
Corporate Sensitivity to Sovereign Credit Distress: The Mitigating Effects of Financial Flexibility, Vu, H., Klusak, P., Khoo, S.Y., and Alsakka, R. (2024), European Journal of Finance.
Empirical Effects of Resale Price Maintenance: Evidence from Fixed Book Price Policies in Europe, Williams, R.J. (2024), Journal of Competition Law & Economic.
Are Heatwaves More Deadly for Women?, Lin, Y., Bardhan, R., Debnath, R., and Mukherjee, B. (2024). Significance, Royal Statistical Society, UK
Politicians’ Connections and Sovereign Credit Ratings, Klusak, P, Uymaz, Y., and Alsakka, R. (2024). Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money 94, 102022.
2023
Do fossil fuel firms reframe online climate and sustainability communication? A data-driven analysis, Debnath, R., Ebanks, D., Roulet, T., Mohaddes, K., and Alvarez, R.M. (2023). npj Climate Action, Nature Portfolio 2:47, pp. 1–12.
Attention, sentiments and emotions towards emerging climate technologies on Twitter, Müller-Hansen, F., Repke, T., Baum, C.M., Brutschin, E., Callaghan, M.W., Debnath, R., Lamb, W.L., Low, S., Lück, S., Roberts, C., Sovacool, B.K., Minx, J.C. (2023), Global Environmental Change, 83, 102765.
Future workspace needs flexibility and diversity: A machine learning-driven behavioural analysis of co-working space, Pan, J., Cho, T.Y., Sun, M., Debnath, R., Lonsdale, N., Wilcox, C., and Bardhan, R. (2023), PLOS One.
Why don’t Americans trust university researchers and why it matters for climate change, Alvarez, R.M., Debnath, R., and Ebanks, D. (2023), PLOS Climate.
Factor in gender to beat the heat in impoverished settlements, Bardhan, R., Debnath, R., and Mukherjee, B. (2023), Nature.
Harnessing human and machine intelligence for planetary scale climate action, Debnath, R., Creutzig, F., Sovacool, B.K., and Shuckburgh, E. (2023), npj Climate Action, Nature Portfolio 2:20.
Lethal heatwaves are challenging India's sustainable development, Debnath, R., Bardhan, R., and Bell, M. (2023), PLOS Climate.
Conspiracy spillovers and geoengineering, Debnath, R., Reiner, D. M., Sovacool, B. K., Müller-Hansen, F., Repke, T., Alvarez, R. M., and Fitzgerald, S. D. (2023), iScience 26:3.
Facilitating system-level behavioral climate action using computational social science, Debnath, R., van der Linden, S., Sovacool, B.K., and Alvarez, R.M. (2023), Nature Human Behaviour 7, pp 155–156.
Financing renewable energy: Policy insights from Brazil and Nigeria, Isah, A., Dioha, M.O., Debnath, R., Abraham-Dukuma, M.C., and Butu, H.M. (2023), Energy, Sustainability and Society 13:2.
Bridging the divide in energy policy research: Empirical evidence from global collaborative networks, Ali, M., Couto, L.C., Unsworth, S., and Debnath, R. (2023), Energy Policy 173, 113380.
Rising Temperatures, Falling Ratings: The Effect of Climate Change on Sovereign Creditworthiness, Klusak, P., Agarwala, M., Burke, M., and Kraemer, M. (2023) Management Science 69:12, pp. 7468–7491.
Climate Change and Economic Activity: Evidence from U.S. States, Mohaddes, K., Ng, R.N.C., Pesaran, M.H., Raissi, M., and Yang, J.-C. (2023), Oxford Open Economics 2, pp. 1–11.
Respecting the subject in wellbeing public policy: beyond the social planner perspective, Fabian, M., Alexandrova, A., Coyle, D., Agarwala, M., and Felici M. (2023), Journal of European Public Policy 30:8, pp. 1494–1517.
Measuring for the future, not the past, Agarwala, M., Coyle, D., Peñasco, C., and Zenghelis, D. (2023), in Muller, N.Z., Fenichel, E.P., and Bohman, M. (eds.), Measuring and Accounting for Environmental Public Goods: A National Accounts Perspective, National Bureau of Economic Research.
From COVID-19 to Green Recovery with natural capital accounting, Vardon, M., Lucas, P., Bass, S., Agarwala, M., Bassi, A.M., Coyle, D., Dvarskas, S., Farrell, C.A., Greenfield, O., King, S., Lok, M., Obst, C., O’Callaghan, B., Portela R., and Siikamäki, J. (2023) Ambio 52, pages 15–29.
2022
Social Media Enables People-Centric Climate Action in the Hard-to-Decarbonise Building Sector, Debnath, R., Bardhan, R., Shah, D.U., Mohaddes, K., Ramage, M.H., Alvarez, R.M., and Sovacool, B.K. (2022), Scientific Reports (Nature Portfolio) 12, pp. 19017/1–17.
Machine learning-based evaluation of dynamic thermal-tempering performance and thermal diversity for 107 Cambridge courtyards, Peng, Z., Debnath, R., Bardhan, R., and Steemers, K. (2022), Sustainable Cities and Society 88: 104275.
Lockdown impacts on residential electricity demand in India: A data-driven and non-intrusive load monitoring study using Gaussian mixture models, Debnath, R., Bardhan, R., Misra, A., Hong, T., Vida, R., and Ramage, M.H. (2022), Energy Policy 164: 112886.
Macroeconomic Effects of Global Shocks in the GCC: Evidence from Saudi Arabia, Mohaddes, K., Raissi, M., and Sarangi, N. (2022), Middle East Development Journal 14:2, pp. 219–239.
Mexico Needs a Fiscal Twist: Response to Covid-19 and Beyond, Ahmed Hannan, S., Honjo, K., and Raissi, M. (2022), International Economics, 169, pp. 175–190.
Corporate Indebtedness and Low Productivity Growth of Italian Firms, Anderson, G., and Raissi, M. (2022), in Chudik, A., Hsiao, C., and Timmermann, A., (eds.), Essays in Honor of M. Hashem Pesaran: Panel Modeling, Micro Applications, and Econometric Methodology (Advances in Econometrics, Vol. 43B), pp. 205–28, Emerald Publishing.
Nature Loss and Sovereign Credit Ratings, Agarwala, M., Burke, M., Klusak, P., Kraemer, M., and Volz, U. (2022), Nature Finance.
Quantitative Methods in Finance using R, Fry, J., and Burke, M. (2022), Open University Press, McGraw-Hill Education.
Attention to Authority: The behavioural finance of Covid-19, Burke, M., Fry, J., Kemp, S., and Woodhouse, D. (2022), Finance Research Letters 49:103081.
First‐mover disadvantage: the sovereign ratings mousetrap, Klusak, P., Kraemer, M., and Vu, H. (2022), Financial Markets, Institutions & Instruments 31:1, pp. 3–44.
2021
Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Legal and Environmental dimensions of electric vehicle adoption in the United States: A social-media interaction analysis, Debnath, R., Bardhan, R., Reiner, D.M., and Miller, J.R. (2021), Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 152: 111707.
Disruptive innovation for inclusive renewable policy in sub-Saharan Africa: A social shaping of technology analysis of appliance uptake in Rwanda, Muza, O., and Debnath, R. (2021), Renewable Energy 168, pp. 896–912.
Words against injustices: A deep narrative analysis of energy cultures in slum rehabilitation housing of Abuja, Mumbai and Rio de Janeiro for just policy design, Debnath, R., Darby, S., Bardhan, R., Mohaddes, K., Sunikka-Blank, M., Coelho, A. C. V., and Isa, A. (2021), Energy Research and Social Science 72, pp. 101892/1–17.
A review of challenges from increasing renewable generation in the Indian Power System: Lessons for Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2020, Debnath, R., Mittal, V., and Jindal, A. (2021), Energy and Environment 33:1.
Long-Term Macroeconomic Effects of Climate Change: A Cross-Country Analysis, Kahn, M.E., Mohaddes, K., Ng, R.N.C., Pesaran, M.H., Raissi, M., and Yang, J.-C. (2021), Energy Economics 104, pp. 105624/1–13.
Climate Change and Fiscal Sustainability: Risks and Opportunities, Agarwala, M., Burke, M., Klusak, P., Mohaddes, K., Volz, U., and Zenghelis, D. (2021), National Institute Economic Review 258, pp. 28–46.
A Counterfactual Economic Analysis of COVID-19 Using a Threshold Augmented Multi-Country Model, Chudik, A., Mohaddes, K., Pesaran, M.H., Raissi, M. and Rebucci, A. (2021), Journal of International Money and Finance 119, pp. 102477/1–26.
Illegal Drugs and Public Corruption: Crack Based Evidence from California, Flamini, A., Jahanshahi, B., and Mohaddes, K. (2021), European Journal of Political Economy 69, pp. 102005/1–14.
Covid-19 Fiscal Support and its Effectiveness, Chudik A., and Mohaddes, K., M. Raissi, M. (2021), Economics Letters 205, pp. 109939/1–5.
Italy: Toward a Growth-Friendly Fiscal Reform, Andrle, M., Hebous, S., Kangur., A., and Raissi, M. (2021), Economia Politica. 38, pp. 385–420.
Social Capital and the Changing Wealth of Nations, Agarwala M., and Zenghelis, D. (2021), The Changing Wealth of Nations 2021: Managing Assets for the Future, pp. 397–427, World Bank
Natural capital in climate models, Agarwala, M., and Coyle, D. (2021), Nature Sustainability 4, pp. 81–82.
Sovereign credit ratings during the COVID-19 pandemic, Tran, Y., Vu, H., Klusak, P., Kraemer, M., and Hoang T. (2021), International Review of Financial Analysis 78:101879.
2020
Grounded Reality Meets Machine Learning: A Deep-narrative Analysis Framework for Energy Policy Research, Debnath, R., Darby, S., Bardhan, R., Mohaddes, K., and Sunikka-Blank, M. (2020), Energy Research & Social Science 69, pp. 101704/1-14.
India nudges to contain COVID-19 pandemic: a reactive public policy analysis using machine-learning based topic modelling, Debnath, R., and Bardhan R., (2020), PLOS ONE.
REST framework: A modelling approach towards cooling energy stress mitigation plans for future cities in warming Global South, Bardhan, R., Debnath, R., Gama, J., and Vijay, U., (2020), Sustainable Cities and Society 61: 102315.
Energy Justice in Slum Rehabilitation Housing: An Empirical Exploration of Built Environment Effects on Socio-Cultural Energy Demand, Debnath, R., Simoes, G.M.F., Bardhan, R., Leder, S.M., Lamberts, R., and Sunikka-Blank, M. (2020), Sustainability 12.7.
The Growth Effects of El Niño and La Niña: Local Weather Conditions Matter, with Couharde, C., Damette, O., Generoso, R., and Mohaddes, K. (2020), Annals of Economics and Statistics 140, pp. 83- 126.
The Adaptive Investment Effect: Evidence from Chinese Provinces, Mohaddes, K., and Williams, R.J. (2020), Economics Letters 193, pp. 109332/1-4.
Asymmetric Oil Prices and Trade Imbalances: Does the Source of the Oil Shock Matter?, Jibril H., Chaudhuri, K., and Mohaddes, K. (2020), Energy Policy 137, pp. 1–15.
Identifying Global and National Output and Fiscal Policy Shocks Using a GVAR, Chudik, A., Mohaddes, K., and Pesaran, M.H. (2020) in T. Li, M. H. Pesaran, and D. Terrell (eds.), Advances in Econometrics (Volume 41): Essays in Honor of Cheng Hsiao, pp. 143–189. Emerald Publishing.
Natural Capital Accounting for Sustainable Macroeconomic Strategies, Agarwala, M., and Zenghelis, D. (2020), The Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations.
An options-pricing approach to election prediction, Fry, J., and Burke, M. (2020), Quantitative Finance 20:10, pp. 1583–1589.
Do personal connections improve sovereign credit ratings?, Klusak, P., Thornton, J., and Uymaz, Y. (2020), Finance Research Letters 33: 101194.
2019
How does slum rehabilitation influences appliance ownership? A structural model of non-income drivers, Debnath, R., Bardhan, R., and Sunikka-Blank, M. (2019), Energy Policy 132, pp. 418–428.
Discomfort and distress in slum rehabilitation: Investigating the rebound phenomenon using a backcasting approach, Debnath, R., Bardhan, R., and Sunikka-Blank, M (2019), Habitat International 87, pp. 75–90.
Evolution of sustainable energy policies in India since 1947: A review, Bardhan, R., Debnath, R., and Jana A (2019), WIREs Energy and Environment 8.
The U.S. Oil Supply Revolution and the Global Economy, Mohaddes, K., and Raissi, M. (2019), Empirical Economics 57:5, pp. 1515–1546.
Institutions and Macroeconomic Policies in Resource-Rich Arab Economies, Mohaddes, K., Nugent, J.B., and Selim, H. (2019), Oxford University Press.
Objectives, Issues and Findings, Mohaddes, K., Nugent, J.B., and Selim, H. (2019), in Mohaddes, K., Nugent, J.B., and Selim, H. (eds.), Institutions and Macroeconomic Policies in Resource-Rich Arab Economies, pp. 1–14. Oxford University Press.
Oil, Volatility and Institutions: Cross-Country Evidence from Major Oil Producers, El-Anshasy, A., Mohaddes, K., and Nugent, J.B. (2019), in Mohaddes, K., Nugent, J.B., and Selim, H. (eds.), Institutions and Macroeconomic Policies in Resource-Rich Arab Economies, pp. 52–72. Oxford University Press.
Reforming Fiscal Institutions in Resource-Rich Arab Economies: Policy Proposals, Mohaddes, K., Nugent, J.B., and Selim, H. (2019), in Mohaddes, K., Nugent, J.B., and Selim, H. (eds.), Institutions and Macroeconomic Policies in Resource-Rich Arab Economies, pp. 237–271. Oxford University Press.
Oil Price Volatility, Financial Institutions, and Economic Growth, Jarrett U., Mohaddes, K., and Mohtadi, H. (2019), Energy Policy 126, pp. 131–144.
How easy is it to understand consumer finance?, Burke, M., and Fry, J. (2019), Economics Letters 177, pp. 1-4.
The impact of ESMA regulatory identifiers on the quality of ratings, Klusak, P. Alsakka, R., and Gwilym, O. (2019), International Review of Financial Analysis 66: 101365.
2018
Low-income housing layouts under socio-architectural complexities: A parametric study for sustainable slum rehabilitation, Bardhan, R., Debnath, R., Malik, J., and Sarkar, A. (2018), Sustainable Cities and Society 41, pp. 126–138.
Resource Symbiosis Model through bricolage: A livelihood generation assessment of Indian Village, Debnath, R., and Bardhan, R. (2018), Journal of Rural Studies 60, pp. 105–121.
Investigating the local mean age of air with the health care-seeking behaviour of low-income tenement housing in Mumbai, Bardhan, R., Debnath, R., Jana, A., and Norford, L.K (2018), Habitat International 71, pp. 156–168.
The Dynamics and Determinants of Kuwait’s Long-Run Economic Growth, Burney, N.A., Alawadhi, A., Al-Musallam, M., and Mohaddes, K. (2018), Economic Modelling 71, pp. 289–304.
Rising Public Debt to GDP Can Harm Economic Growth, Chudik, A., Mohaddes, K., Pesaran, M.H., and Raissi, M. (2018), Economic Letter, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, 13:3, pp. 1–4.
Kuwait’s Macroeconomic Performance in the Global Context, Alawadhi, A., Burney, N.A., Al-Khayat, A., and Mohaddes, K. (2018), Arab Journal of Administrative Sciences 25:1, pp. 93–119.
Credit-Supply Shocks and Firm Productivity in Italy, Dörr., S., Raissi, M., and Weber, A. (2018), Journal of International Money and Finance, 87, pp. 155-71.
Crowding-Out or Crowding-In? Public and Private Investment in India, Bahal, G., Raissi, M., and Tulin, V. (2018), World Development, 109, pp. 323-33.
Price and Income Elasticity of Indian Exports—The Role of Supply-Side Bottlenecks, Raissi, M., and Tulin, V. (2018), The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance 68, pp. 39-45.
Natural Capital Accounting for Water Resources, Agarwala, M., and Brock, M. (2018), in Allan, T., Bromwich, B., Keulertz, M., and Colman, A. (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Food, Water and Society, pp. 61–75, Oxford University Press.
2017
Taming the killer in the kitchen: mitigating household air pollution from solid fuel cookstoves through building design, Debnath, R., Bardhan, R., and Banerjee, R. (2017), Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy 19, pp. 705–719.
Is There a Debt-threshold Effect on Output Growth?, Chudik, A., Mohaddes, K., Pesaran, M.H., and Raissi, M. (2017), Review of Economics and Statistics 99:1, pp. 135–150.
Fair Weather or Foul? The Macroeconomic Effects of El Niño, Cashin, P., Mohaddes, K., and Raissi, M. (2017), Journal of International Economics 106, pp. 37–54.
Oil Prices and the Global Economy: Is It Different This Time Around?, Mohaddes, K. and Pesaran, M.H. (2017), Energy Economics 65, pp 315–325.
China’s Slowdown and Global Financial Market Volatility: Is World Growth Losing Out?, Cashin, P., Mohaddes, K., and Raissi, M. (2017), Emerging Markets Review 31, pp. 164–175.
Can Italy Grow Out of Its NPL Overhang? A Panel Threshold Analysis, Mohaddes, K., Raissi, M., and Weber, A. (2017), Economics Letters 159, pp. 185–189.
Do Sovereign Wealth Funds Dampen the Negative Effects of Commodity Price Volatility?, Mohaddes, K. and Raissi M. (2017), Journal of Commodity Markets 8, pp. 18–27.
Monitoring local well-being in environmental interventions: a consideration of practical trade-offs, Fry, B.P, Agarwala, M., Atkinson, G., Clements, T., Homewood, K., Mourato, S., Rowcliffe, J.M., Wallace, G., and Milner-Gulland, E.J. (2017), Oryx 51:1 pp. 68–76.
Does the disclosure of unsolicited sovereign rating status affect bank ratings?, Klusak, P., Alsakka, R., and Gwilym, O. (2017), The British Accounting Review 49:2, pp. 194–210.