Introduction : growing challenges under global uncertainty

Financial Stability, Risks, and Ecological Transition: Addressing Economic Challenges under Global Uncertainty is framed as a platform for a broad cross-section of contributions on transformation processes in the economy and society in the 21st century. The contributions are oriented toward on the different systemic and specific aspects of economic evolution and financial markets development within the context of rising risks and new challenges such as monetary and financial instabilities, green economy, transition and sectoral risks, and environmental, monetary, and industrial policies and related regulations in the face of growing uncertainties in markets and the global economy. Two issues of the time – financial stability and the financing of economic activities on the one hand, and the necessary transformation of our societies, i.e. the economic and ecological transition to a more sustainable world, on the other – need to be addressed together, since the issues they represent for our future are so intertwined and lie at the heart of the constraints we face today.