Biography
My research examines how coordination between public policy, industry and finance shapes the flow of transition capital. I am interested in institutional coordination architectures — sectoral agreements, negotiated transition pathways, public risk-sharing, monitoring and disclosure arrangements — and in which of their features turn political transition targets into credible sector pathways and into observable capital reallocation. A particular focus is the channel to pricing and credit conditions: whether and how coordination changes what capital costs for the firms that have to invest. Methodologically I work with institutional analysis and comparative typology construction, building on the governance literature around collective action and on empirical work in sustainable finance.
Before and alongside the doctorate I have worked as a consultant and project manager at the intersection of strategy, sustainable finance and organisational transformation, with earlier roles at a BIG 4 consultancy (sustainable finance, EU Taxonomy, ESG regulation) and WWF Germany (banking transformation, biodiversity and nature finance). That practice background shapes my research interest.
Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University
- bals@rsm.nl
