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This paper examines how governance and risk management affect risk-taking in banks. It distinguishes between good risks, which are risks that have an ex ante private reward for the bank on a stand-alone basis, and bad risks, which do not have such a reward. A well-governed bank takes the amount...
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Mutual funds change their risk levels significantly over time. This paper investigates the performance consequences of risk shifting, as well as the economic motivations and the mechanisms of risk shifting. Using a holdings-based measure of risk shifting, we find that funds that increase risk...
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Using 113 staggered changes in corporate income tax rates across U.S. states, we provide evidence on how taxes affect corporate risk-taking decisions. Higher taxes reduce expected profits more for risky projects than for safe ones, as the government shares in a firm's upside but not in its...
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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 … of diversification identify those existing deals whose design makes them resilient to climate change. This paper builds …
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public health for pandemics or environmental protection for climate disasters, depends on mitigation efficacy. Efficacy can …
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The selection of climate policies should be an exercise in risk management reflecting the many relevant sources of … uncertainty. Studies of climate change and its impacts rarely yield consensus on the distribution of exposure, vulnerability, or … situations, such as evaluating climate policies, where generally agreed-upon probability distributions are not available and …
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ESG-oriented investors. The scale of this response increases with the severity of climate disasters and is aided by credit … availability and competitive labor markets. Climate risk management by firms mitigates the impact of heat shocks on aggregate …
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We explore the design of climate stress tests to assess and manage macro-prudential risks from climate change in the … financial sector. We review the climate stress scenarios currently employed by regulators, highlighting the need to (i) consider … many transition risks as dynamic policy choices; (ii) better understand and incorporate feedback loops between climate …
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We propose a new methodology to build portfolios that hedge the economic and financial risks from climate change. Our … climate risk beliefs. We exploit two types of idiosyncratic belief shocks: (i) instances when fund advisers experience local … extreme heat events that are known to shift climate change beliefs, and (ii) instances when fund managers change the language …
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of climate change on sectoral reallocation and aggregate productivity. First, I use firm-level data from a wide range of … heat reduces non-agricultural productivity, but less so than in agriculture, implying that hot countries could adapt to … climate change by importing food and shifting labor toward manufacturing. Second, I embed my estimates in an open …
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