ESG and Sustainability Transitions: Embracing complexity in private and public investments

The topic of the PhD dissertation revolves around the topic of the ESG criteria and sustainability transitions. Each paper analyses the topic on three different level of analysis: at the company level (first chapter), at the level of financial markets/institutions (second chapter) and at the policy-making level (third chapter). While the first chapter provides a solid framework on the determinants ESG performance that serves as a proxy of complexity in sustainability, the other two chapters deep dive on how financial actors and policy mixes embrace this complexity when dealing with private and public investments.