Done rigorously, the stress tests could force the banks to come clean about their balance-sheets and lead to the forced sale of assets into the government's toxic-asset programme.
Oxford's own stranded assets programme identifies the fossil fuel campaign as the fastest growing divestment movement in history.
Updated at 7.26pm GMT 5.37pm GMT Ben Caldecott, founder of the Stranded Assets Programme at Oxford University's Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment said emphasis of the carbon bubble may be misguided and alienate the investment community from divesting.
Oxford's Stranded Assets Programme report concluded that "divestment outflows, even when relatively meagre in the first wave of divestment, can significantly and permanently depress stock price of a target firm if they trigger a change in market norms".
It is a credit to the endowment that it doesn't have any direct investments in coal and tar sands," said Ben Caldecott, director of the Stranded Assets Programme at the University of Oxford.
Ben Caldecott, director of the Stranded Assets programme at Oxford University, notes that the aim of the divestment campaigners is to bankrupt fossil fuel companies morally, not financially, and that religious groups have a special significance in creating this stigma.
But my favorite argument for divesting comes from a report generated by Oxford University's Stranded Assets Programme.
In this respect, we plan to undertake a new asset disposal programme.
For services to the defence asset management programme.
As such, the market thought that the MPC would pause its asset purchase programme in November.
