Social-Economic Impacts of Air Pollution

This book examines the social and economic impacts of air pollution, a major environmental threat causing extensive attention in the recent years. It explores how air pollution affects stock market performance, investor behavior, and the financial health of industries like tourism and health insurance; It examines how air quality can influence cognitive biases, analyst forecasts, and even customer ratings, revealing the subtle ways pollution shapes market dynamics. It further analyzes the growing importance of air quality in ESG investing and showcases how companies are developing innovative solutions to reduce their environmental footprint and capitalize on the growing clean tech market. This book doesn't just highlight problems; it offers solutions. It examines the role of government regulations, corporate responsibility, and investor activism in driving the transition to a cleaner, more sustainable future.

Dr. Mengmeng Guo is a professor of School of Finance at Nanjing Agricultural University. Her research interests include green finance, climate finance and environmental economics. She has published about 30 papers at decent academic journals such as Journal of Banking and Finance, Emerging Markets Reviews, Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, Economic Modelling, Journal of Sports Economics, International Review of Economics & Finance, Finance Research Letters.
Dr. Dayong Zhang is a Professor of Financial Economics at Southwestern University of Finance and Economics. His research interests cover energy finance, climate finance, banking and finance, and general economic and financial issues in emerging economies. He is the president of the Society for the Studies of Climate Finance (SSCF) in China, vice president of International Society for Energy Transition Studies (ISETS), the founding editor of Journal of Climate Finance. He published over 100 articles in peer reviewed journals. He is on the Elsevier's list of China's Most Cited Scholars in 2020-2024; and awarded the 2021 Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher in cross-field, 2022 in Economics and Business.
Dr. Yixiang Yu is an assistant professor in School of Finance and Public Administration at Anhui University of Finance and Economics. His research interests focus on environmental economics, climate finance and applied microeconomics. He has published in Journals like Growth and Change.