“The pullback of Chinese overseas financing and its implications for a post-neoliberal global financial order.” Accepted, forthcoming. Socio-Economic Review

"Reconsidering the China model through structure and agency: the hybrid realities of Chinese capitalism and ‘socialism with Chinese characteristics'." Accepted, forthcoming. Capital & Class

“How to resist the Wall Street Consensus: The maneuverability of a Vietnamese green state within international financial subordination.” 2024. Review of International Political Economy. https://doi.org/10.1080/09692290.2024.2414977

“The future of fossil fuels, chemicals, and feedstocks: Outlining a research agenda on the role of China in the global petrochemical industry.” 2024. Energy Research & Social Science (With Joachim Tilsted) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2024.103750

“State-led financialization and an emerging ‘green investor state’: Examining China’s use of state-backed funds for green transition.“ 2024. Regulation & Governance. (with Kasper Ingeman Beck) https://doi.org/doi:10.1111/rego.12625

“Catching up with climate priorities: Understanding multilateral development banks’ evolving approach to biodiversity.” 2024. Global Policy. (With Christoph Nedopil, Amelie Chane‐Yook, and Divya Narain)  https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.13403

“Any alternative to the Wall Street Consensus? Comparing the infrastructure financing models of the US, the EU, and China.” 2024. New Political Economy. https://doi.org/10.1080/13563467.2024.2373078

“How to integrate the Global South into the ‘green state’ concept.” 2024. Third World Quarterly, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2024.2366398

“Adding ‘origination’ to diffusion theory: contrasting the roles of China and the EU in green finance.” 2023. Review of International Political Economy. https://doi.org/10.1080/09692290.2023.2204532

“Chinese overseas development funds: An assessment of their sustainability approaches.” 2023. Journal of International Development. (with Tancrede Voituriez and Christoph Nedopil) https://doi.org/10.1002/jid.3778

“Bottom-up market-facilitation and top-down market-steering: comparing and conceptualizing green finance approaches in the EU and China.” 2023. Asia Europe Journal. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10308-023-00663-z

“Driving Global Convergence in Green Financial Policies: China as Policy Pioneer and the EU as Standard Setter” 2023. Global Policy, 13(3), 358–370. https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.13105

“Prospects of the Multilateral Cooperation Center for Development Finance (MCDF) to catalyse infrastructure financing.” 2022. Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies, 33. (With Christoph Nedoil, Mengdi Yue, and Wang Yao) https://doi.org/10.1002/app5.345

“Clean at home, polluting abroad: The role of the Chinese financial system’s differential treatment of state-owned and private enterprises.” 2022. Climate Policy, 1–14. (with Lars Oehler) https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2022.2040409

“Addressing the missing linkage in sustainable finance: The ‘SDG Finance Taxonomy.’” 2020. Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment, 1–8. (with Christoph Nedopil and Wang Yao) https://doi.org/10.1080/20430795.2020.1796101

“Which firms leave multi‐stakeholder initiatives? An analysis of delistings from the United Nations Global Compact.” 2020. Regulation & Governance, (with Andreas Rashce, Wencke Gwozdz, and Jeremy Moon) https://doi.org/10.1111/rego.12322

“Revising the ‘host country standard’ principle: A step for China to align its overseas investment with the Paris Agreement.” 2019. Climate Policy, 19(10), 1205–1210. (with Tancrede Voituriez and Wang Yao) https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2019.1650702

Draft papers

“Western companies going net zero in China: The challenge of tailoring global commitments to local circumstances.” 2nd R&R

“The archetype of a ‘big green state’? What China tells us about green macrofinancial regimes” R&R

“Green finance, economic planning and the Paris Misalignment: The political economy of Green Financial Planning.” R&R (with James Jackson)

“The state-climate-finance nexus: identifying and conceptualizing an emerging research agenda.” R&R (with Dan Driscoll)

“Internationalizing industrial policy: how China and the US uses state capacity to secure critical minerals for EVs.” Under review (with Dan Driscoll and Max Kiefel)

“The ‘environmental glass ceiling’ beyond the global North: What China can tell us about the green state’s limitations.” Under review

“A green state with Chinese characteristics? Using China’s case as a step towards integrating the global South into the ‘green state’ concept.” Under review

“Multidimensional Growth Futures: Overcoming the false binary between green growth and degrowth.” Under review (with Jacob Hasselbalch)

“Funding the green state in the global South: Examining the case of Indian green industrial policy under financial constraints” Under review

“China and the authoritarian politics of growth models” Under review

“The green vs environmental state: From disorder to distinctness in conceptualizing state-driven approaches.” Under review (with James Jackson)

“Scaling up the clean without scaling down dirty: How both low and high-emission industries fit China’s growth model” Under review

“How climate change is disrupting the global financial system” Preparing submission (with Kathryn Chelminsky and Jeff Colgan)

“Green economic planning from concept to practice: Insights from post-war France, the Danish energy sector, and contemporary China” Preparing submission (with Cornel Ban and Jacob Hasselbalch)

Book contributions

Nedopil, C & Larsen, M. (2024). Green finance in China: System, practice, and international role. In Routledge Handbook on Green Finance (pp. 280-299). Abingdon, UK: Routledge. http://doi.org/10.4324/9781003345497-20

Larsen, M. (2021). Green Finance International Cooperation (绿色金融国际合作）. In Y. Wang & H. Xu, China Green Finance Report 2020 (王遥&徐洪峰:中国绿色金融研究报告2020）. China Finance Publishing House (中国金融出版社)

Oehler, L., Larsen, M. L., & Yao, W. (2020). Financing the global low-carbon energy transition: China’s dual role domestically and overseas. In S. Haakonsson, B. H. Jørgensen, G. Chen, & Z. Hong (Eds.), The SDC International Report 2020: Cooperating for Energy Transition (pp. 110–118). Aahus University Library. 

Larsen, M. (2020). Green Finance International Cooperation (绿色金融国际合作）. In Y. Wang & H. Xu, China Green Finance Report 2020 (王遥&徐洪峰:中国绿色金融研究报告2020）. China Finance Publishing House (中国金融出版社)

Subhanij, T., Isgut, A., Abe, M., Sirimaneethma, V., & Larsen, M. (2019). Infrastructure Financing in Asia for Sustainable Development (ESCAP FInancing for Development Series No. 3). United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific.

Research reports

Solheim, E., Wang, E., Nedopil, C., Larsen, M., Xie, W., De Boer, D., Liu, S. (2023). Green Development Guidance for BRI Projects Phase III: Study of China Overseas Investment Funds. BRI International Green Development Coalition 

Xu, H., & Larsen, M. L. (2021). Driving China’s Fossil Fuel SOE Reform in Support of a Low-Carbon Transition (碳中和目标约束下绿色金融、转型金融支持中国化石能源国企低碳转型路径研究). International Institute of Green Finance.

Escalante, D., Choi, J., Chin, N., Cui, Y., & Larsen, M. L. (2020). The State and Effectiveness of the Green Bond Market in China (p. 29). Climate Policy Initiative.

Escalante, D., Choi, J., Chin, N., Cui, Y., & Larsen, M. L. (2020). MRV System Design: Recommendations for Chinese Green Bonds (p. 20). Climate Policy Initiative.

Escalante, D., Choi, J., & Larsen, M. L. (2020). Green Banking in China – Emerging Trends: With a spotlight on the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC). Climate Policy Initiative. 

Larsen, M. L., & Wang, Y. (2020). Future Cities Advisory Outlook: Urban Technologies in China. UN-Habitat.

Larsen, M. L. (2020). Financing Sustainable Infrastructure in Asia. International Institute of Green Finance. 

Teer, J., & Larsen, M. (2019). Sustainable Finance in Asia: Helping Asian Green Bond Issuers to Access Global Capital Markets. International Institute of Green Finance. 

Larsen, M. L. (2019). The Potential of Multilateral Development Banks in Greening the BRI. International Institute of Green Finance. 

Cui, Y., & Larsen, M. (2018). China Climate Finance Progress Report (中国气候融资进展报告). International Institute of Green Finance.

Larsen, M. L. (2018). The Role of Multilateral Development Banks in Green Finance. International Institute of Green Finance. 

Furuseth, I. S., Kammler, K. J., Chen, W., Platjouw, F. M., Lin, Y., Jartun, M., Larssen, T., & Larsen, M. L. (2018). Green Finance Approaches to Soil Remediation: International Examples. IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development.

Pirovska, M., Wang, Y., & Larsen, M. L. (2018). Investor Duties and ESG Integration in China (p. 32). UN Principles for Responsible Investment.

Romani, A., Larsen, M., & Rosolowska, D. (2018). The need for a common language in Green Finance: Towards a standard-neutral taxonomy for the environmental use of proceeds. Phase II. European Investment Bank & Green Finance Committee of China.

Cui, Y., & Larsen, M. (2017). China Climate Finance Progress Report (中国气候融资进展报告). International Institute of Green Finance.

Romani, A., Larsen, M., & Rosolowska, D. (2017). The need for a common language in Green Finance: Towards a standard-neutral taxonomy for the environmental use of proceeds. European Investment Bank & Green Finance Committee of China.

Sheren, M., Ma, J., Shih, Y., & Larsen, M. (2017). Globalizing Green Finance: Turning Green Momentum Into Actions. UK-China Green Finance Taskforce.

Cui, Y., & Larsen, M. (2016). China Climate Finance Progress Report (中国气候融资进展报告). International Institute of Green Finance.

Larsen, M. (2015). The Delisting Dilemma. In UN Global Compact International Yearbook. Macondo.

Larsen, M., & Farrell, K. (2015). The Role of ICT in the Proposed Urban Sustainable Development Goal and the New Urban Agenda. UN Habitat & Eriksson.

Media articles