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Andrew McConnell

  • Associate Director, Pollination Group

Andrew McConnell is a climate and nature economist and an Associate Director at the Pollination Group. He currently focuses on integrating climate and nature risk into financial systems and financing industrial decarbonization.

Andrew McConnell is a climate and nature economist and an Associate Director at the Pollination Group. He currently focuses on integrating climate and nature risk into financial systems and financing industrial decarbonization. Previously, at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, he worked on sustainable monetary policy and mapping climate-based inflation.

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Climate Change and Macroeconomic Models: Why General Equilibrium Models Do Not Work

Article By Yannis Dafermos, Andrew McConnell, Maria Nikolaidi, Servaas Storm, and Boyan Yanovski | Oct 28, 2024

The limitations of the benchmark E-DSGE framework and how these limitations restrict the ability of this framework to meaningfully capture the macroeconomics of the climate crisis.

Macroeconomic Modeling in the Anthropocene

Paper Woking Paper | By Yannis Dafermos, Andrew McConnell, Maria Nikolaidi, Servaas Storm, and Boyan Yanovski | Oct 2024

Why the E-DSGE Framework Is Not Fit for Purpose and What to Do About It