Export credit agencies (ECAs) play a pivotal but underexplored role in shaping global public energy finance. This presentation explores how ECA lending patterns have evolved over time. Drawing on new longitudinal data and dynamic inferential network analysis, it examines the deeper structures behind state-backed investment in fossil fuels and renewables.

About the author

Nicholas Frank is a Laureate Research Fellow with the Planetary Health Equity Hothouse in the School of Regulation and Global Governance. Prior to this, he was an Associate Lecturer in the School of Politics and International Relations at the Australian National University. Nicholas specializes in the political economy of trade and investment governance. Nicholas employs formal theory, econometrics, inferential network approaches, and text-as-data techniques in his research.

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