A less reluctant (green) Atlas? Explaining the People’s Bank of China’s distinctive environmental shift
Why this work is in the frame
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Why did the Chinese central bank embrace environmental policies earlier than Western central banks and with a consistent focus on a wider range of environmental issues and more ambitious promotional policies? Although the greening of central banks has attracted growing attention from scholars of political economy, this distinctive and pioneering role of the People’s Bank of China has received less attention than that of Western central banks. It can partly be explained by the Chinese central bank’s historically-rooted ‘developmental’ institutional features, namely its wider mandate, lack of political independence, and its more activist policy tools. But this institutionalist explanation also needs to be complemented by a more agency-centered one that examines the catalytic role of Chinese political authorities and financial technocrats, with their particular priorities and ideas. The analysis contributes to political economy literature on the emergence of green central banking by exploring the less-studied Chinese case and offering an analytical framework that encourages comparative study of this phenomenon beyond the Western context.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it