When firm-level information is not available, the greenness of financial portfolios, in terms of alignment to the EU Taxonomy, and their exposure to climate-related transition risk need to be estimated with a top-down approach. We improve the accuracy of available estimates by providing...

When firm-level information is not available, the greenness of financial portfolios, in terms of alignment to the EU Taxonomy, and their exposure to climate-related transition risk need to be estimated with a top-down approach. We improve the accuracy of available estimates by providing...

The finance literature on carbon risk focuses mostly on the extent to which this risk is currently priced in financial markets. This paper sheds light on a complementary question, i.e. what could be the level of potential carbon risk implied by different future climate policy scenarios. To this...

Credit Valuation Adjustment captures the difference in the value of derivative contracts when the counterparty default probability is taken into account. However, in the context of a network of contracts, the default probability of a direct counterparty can depend substantially on the default...

How financial investors may react to policy events related to sustainability and climate change mitigation in particular, is a key question with implications for sustainable finance and financial stability. We address this question by carrying out a multi-period difference-in-difference approach...

We propose a mapping from NACE codes of economic activities, into Climate Policy Relevant Sectors (CPRS) and into the variables of the process-based Integrated Assessment Models (IAM) used by the Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS) to provide its climate scenarios. We discuss the...

We develop a methodological framework for asset-level climate physical risk assessment that connects for the first time asset-level information (financial, extra-financial and climate), to firms’ revenues, macroeconomic dynamics, financial valuation and investor’s risk. We combine the acute...

This white paper builds on a joint UZH-R20 event on Blended Finance at the World Austrian Summit in 2019. We combine literature review, original empirical and analytical work, and the consolidation of over 20 interviews with experts in the field to provide a balanced view on blended finance...

Green financial sector initiatives, including financial policies, regulations, and instruments, could play an important role in the low-carbon transition by supporting countries in the implementation of economic policies aimed to decarbonize their economy. Thus, it is fundamental to understand...