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We exploit regional variations in exposure to heat stress to study if physical climate risk is priced in municipal and …
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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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distribution, with associated costs for weather risk management and risk-averse decision-makers. These costs result purely from the …
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In the past two decades, a number of banks joined global initiatives aimed to mitigate climate change by "greening" their asset portfolios. We study whether banks that made such commitments have a different emission exposure of their portfolios of syndicated loans than banks that did not. We...
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This paper studies how politicians and voters respond to new information on the threats of climate change. Using data on the universe of federal disaster declarations between 1989 and 2014, we document that congress members from districts hit by a hurricane are more likely to support bills...
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a stochastic growth model for 40 vulnerable countries and project welfare effects of climate-driven cyclone risk changes …
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treatments respond to flood risk. We identify reactions to flood risk, distinctly from price effects due to flood damage, by … seaboard. We find that homes in high flood risk zones situated in towns that participate in public flood awareness activities …
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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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What is the impact and value of hurricane forecasts? We study this question using newly-collected forecast data for major US hurricanes since 2005. We find higher wind speed forecasts increase pre-landfall protective spending, but erroneous under-forecasts increase post-landfall damage and...
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. By incorporating climate risk into asset prices, markets can discourage excessive development in hazardous areas. However … information about flood risk on residential property values in the United States. Using multiple empirical approaches and two … information about flood risk in aggregate. However, the price penalty for flood risk is larger for commercial buyers and in states …
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