Patrick Bolton is Professor of Finance at Imperial College London and senior advisor to the Lazard Climate Center. He is a past President of the American Finance Association, a Fellow of the Econometric Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. He has co-authored Contract Theory (2005) with Mathias Dewatripont, The Green Swan: Central Banking and Financial Stability in the Age of Climate Change (2020) with Morgan Despres, Luiz Pereira Da Silva, Frederic Samama, and Romain Svartzman, and Money Capital: New Monetary Principles for a More Prosperous Society (2024) with Haizhou Huang.
Discussion paper
DP17742 Sovereign Debt Puzzles

Report
Geneva 25: Climate and Debt
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- Climate Change

Policy insights
Policy Insight 111: Mandatory corporate carbon disclosures and the path to net zero
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- Climate Change 
- Global economy

VoxEU Column
Sovereign debt puzzles
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- Macroeconomic policy

VoxEU Column
COP27: Climate finance for developing countries is not just equitable, it is self-interest
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- Climate Change 
- International Finance

VoxEU Column
Climate and debt
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- Climate Change 
- Financial Markets 
- International Finance

VoxEU Column
The great carbon arbitrage
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- Environment 
- Energy

VoxEU Column
The great carbon arbitrage
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- Environment 
- Energy