Current scientific contributions from the research of the [tra:ce]
[tra:ce] Working Paper
The Working Paper Series presents current scientific contributions from [tra:ce]'s research. It offers insights into ongoing projects, theoretical concepts and empirical analyses relating to the major transformation issues of our time - from sustainable financing and climate justice to sustainable economic systems and social change.
With this series, we want to open up the scientific discourse at an early stage, stimulate discussion and provide impetus for politics, civil society and science. The working papers are published at regular intervals and are available as open access publications.
We also have a Policy Paper series: To the Policy Report
All working papers
Working Paper No. 1 (03/25): "Out of the light, into the dark: how 'shadow carbon financing' hampers the green transition and increases climate-related systemic risk"
Schairer, Simon; Fichtner, Jan; Baioni, Riccardo; Pereira de Castro, David; Aguila, Nicolás; Urban, Janina; Haufe, Paula; Wullweber, Joscha (2025). Out of the light, into the dark: how 'shadow carbon financing' hampers the green transition and increases climate-related systemic risk. [tra:ce] Working Paper Series No. 1, Available at SSRN: https: //papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5196946
Working Paper No. 2 (05/25): "The green banking gap: how bankability, business models, and regulations challenge banks' decarbonisation"
Aguila, Nicolás and Haufe, Paula and Baioni, Riccardo and Fichtner, Jan and Schairer, Simon and Urban, Janina and Wullweber, Joscha, The green banking gap: how bankability, business models, and regulations challenge banks' decarbonisation (May 07, 2025). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5244842 ordx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5244842
Working Paper No. 3 (06/25): "Perceptions of Dispossession: The Receiving Side of Locally Driven Large-Scale Land Acquisitions"
Bakasa, Courage, Perceptions of Dispossession: The Receiving Side of Locally Driven Large-Scale Land Acquisitions (May 28, 2025). Available at SSRN: https: //ssrn.com/abstract=5283094
Working Paper No. 4 (08/25): "Gender Dynamics in the Cassava Value Chains in Nigeria: A Case Study of Oyo and Benue States"
Adebayo, Oluwasogo Adediran and Silberberger, Magdalene and Osabuohien, Evans and Osabohien, Romanus and Adediran, Oluwasogo, Gender Dynamics in the Cassava Value Chains in Nigeria: A Case Study of Oyo and Benue States (August 28, 2025). Available at SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5414938
Working Paper No. 5 (09/25): "'Save the banks or save the planet?': Governing through strategic ambiguity in EU sustainability-related banking regulation"
Urban, Janina; Schairer, Simon; Baioni, Riccardo; Aguila, Nicolás; Haufe, Paula; Wullweber, Joscha. 'Save the banks or save the planet?': Governing through strategic ambiguity in EU sustainability-related banking regulation (September 29, 2025). Available at SSRN: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5544161
Working Paper No. 6 (10/25): "Climate-Related Risk Taking, Shaping and Shifting: How Private Financial Actors Keep Stranded Assets Afloat"
Urban, Janina; Schairer, Simon; Haufe, Paula; Baioni, Riccardo; Fichtner, Jan; Aguila, Nicolás; Wullweber, Joscha. Climate-Related Risk Taking, Shaping and Shifting: How Private Financial Actors Keep Stranded Assets Afloat (October 31, 2025). Available at SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5687203