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innovation-driven sustainability. Perhaps surprisingly, we show that carbon regulation need not reduce firm value. …
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Using evidence from the EU emissions trading system, we collect verified emissions of close to 4000 highly polluting and mostly non-listed firms responsible for 26% of EU's emissions. Over the period 2013-2019, we find a non-linear relationship between leverage and emissions. A firm with higher...
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We analyze jointly optimal carbon pricing and leverage regulation in a model with financial constraints and endogenous … physical climate risks have a substantial impact on collateral values. Additionally introducing leverage regulation can be …
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environ-mental regulation and bank supervision. …
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This paper studies the impact of national carbon taxes on CO2 emissions. To do so, we run local projections on a cross-country panel dataset, matching measures of emissions of carbon dioxide with information on the introduction of carbon taxes and their implied price. Importantly, we consider...
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We study the implications of climate change and the associated mitigation measures for optimal monetary policy in a canonical New Keynesian model with climate externalities. Provided they are set at their socially optimal level, carbon taxes pose no trade-offs for monetary policy: it is both...
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We use scenario analysis to assess the macroeconomic effects of carbon transition policies aimed at mitigating climate change. To this end, we employ a version of the ECB's New Area-Wide Model (NAWM) augmented with a framework of disaggregated energy production and use, which distinguishes...
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-regulated regions. Outsourcing helps dodging the EU green regulation and the strategy becomes increasingly appealing as the sectoral …
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This paper explores how the need to transition to a low-carbon economy influences firm credit risk. It develops a novel dataset which augments data on firms' green-house gas emissions over time with information on climate disclosure practices and forward-looking emission reduction targets,...
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paper, by means of a DSGE model including heterogeneous firms and banks, financial frictions and prudential regulation … increases the volatility of lending and output. We further show that relying on microprudential regulation alone would not be … microprudential regulation, leads to a Pareto improvement. …
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