We examine how climate change affects bank fragility. We find both physical and transitional climate changes lead to substantial increase in systemic risk. The effect is more pronounced for banks with higher climate change exposure, higher loan portfolio synchronicity, and higher bank default...

Sustainability and Financial Markets' geeft u inzicht in de verplichtingen die direct of indirect inhaken op duurzaamheid en toepasbaar zijn op spelers op financiële markten. De urgentie voor een verschuiving naar een duurzamere wereld lijkt heviger dan ooit. Zeker nu de gevolgen van...

Prudential financial regulators, central banks, and regulatory authorities have increasingly come to recognize that they have a role to play in dealing with climate change, including climate disasters such as storms, tornados, tsunamis, and so on. Such climate events impact the real economy by...

This paper provides an overview of green banking as an emerging area of creating competitive advantages and new business opportunities for private sector banks and expanding the mandate of central banks and supervisors to protect the financial system and manage risks of individual financial...

In this paper we investigate how financial system stability, assessed through market-based systemic risk measures (SRMs), relates to climate-induced catastrophes and to the structural change caused by the low-carbon transition. We first detect whether, to what extent and how quickly SRMs of the...

Climate change poses several risks to the value of financial assets and financial stability. The study conducted in this paper focuses on the German banking sector and estimates its exposure to climate risks arising from a transition to a carbon-neutral economy. Our analysis identifies the...