Dr. Yi-Chen Shi is the Deputy Director, Chair Professor and Head of the Green Finance Innovation Laboratory at IIGF, as well as Dean of the Yangtze River Delta Green Investment Institute. His primary research areas include corporate finance, corporate social responsibility, capital market theory and behavioral finance. He is particularly interested in Green stock indexes, ESG indexes and environmental stress testing. His papers were published in Financial Management, Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, Asia-Pacific Journal of Financial Studies and Review of Pacific Basin Financial Markets and Policies.
Editorial Note The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), since its initiation and implementation, has brought new opportunities for global economic development, particularly sustainable economic development of BRI countries. As of 18 April 2019, new progress had been made under the BRI in terms of policy coordination, infrastructure building, unimpeded trade,…