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We propose a new methodology to build portfolios that hedge the economic and financial risks from climate change. Our quantity-based approach exploits information on how mutual fund managers trade in response to idiosyncratic changes in their climate risk beliefs. We exploit two types of...
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. We show that this approach yields parsimonious and industry-balanced portfolios that perform well in hedging innovations … in climate news both in-sample and out-of-sample. The resulting hedge portfolios outperform alternative hedging …
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risks. Portfolios hedging macro uncertainty have historically earned zero or even significantly positive returns, while …
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In the period 1996-2014, the average investor in the variance swap market was indifferent to news about future variance at horizons ranging from 1 month to 14 years. It is only purely transitory and unexpected realized variance that were priced. These results present a challenge to most...
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