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Irrigation in the Eastern US receives little attention compared to the West, but farmers in humid states of the US, traditionally reliant on rainfall, have more than tripled irrigation since 1978. We examine this trend in Illinois where there has been a nearly threefold increase in center pivot...
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In the face of rising climate risk, financial institutions may adapt by transferring such risk to securitizers that … to climate risk may be a drop in the ocean of cash flows. This paper builds a data set of the entire securitization chain … optimal deals by finding the portfolio weights in an asset demand system that targets return and risk. Extrapolating wildfire …
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bonds, greater risk-bearing capacity in the U.S. than the rest of the world, and nominal rigidities. A flight to safety … generates a dollar appreciation and decline in global output. Dollar bonds thus command a negative risk premium and the U ….S. holds a levered portfolio of capital financed in dollars. We quantify the effects of safety shocks and heterogeneity in risk …
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assets but left the vast majority of their long-duration assets exposed to interest rate risk. Data from call reports and SEC … filings shows that only 6% of U.S. banking assets used derivatives to hedge their interest rate risk, and even heavy users of …, focusing on short-term gains but risking further losses if rates rose. Instead of hedging the market value risk of bank asset …
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Recent supply disruptions catapulted the issue of risk in global supply chains (GSCs) to the top of policy agendas and … the cost-resiliency trade-off. We propose the risk-versus-reward framework from portfolio theory as a good way to evaluate … whether anti-risk policy is justified. We then discuss how exposures to foreign shocks are measured and argue that exposure is …
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We study how risk management through hedging impacts firms and competition among firms in the life insurance industry … hedging. Post reform impacted firms have lower risk and fewer negative income shocks. Product market competition is also … financial distress to decrease risk and become more competitive …
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dollar is important for risk sharing, but the evidence suggests that it is primarily a device to shift business cycle risk … widespread view that dollarization raises the risk of systemic banking and other crises. Although we identify sources of …
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We develop a theory of bank board risk committees. With this theory, such committees are valuable even though there is … no expectation that bank risk is lower if the bank has a well-functioning risk committee. As predicted by our theory (1 …) many large and complex banks voluntarily chose to have a risk committee before the Dodd-Frank Act forced bank holding …
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availability and competitive labor markets. Climate risk management by firms mitigates the impact of heat shocks on aggregate …
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change and the economy; and (iii) further explore "compound risk" scenarios in which climate risks co-occur with other risks … risk pricing in financial markets; and (iv) better understand and incorporate the process of expectations formation around …
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