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The urgency of estimating the impact of climate risks on the financial system is increasingly recognized among scholars and practitioners. By adopting a network approach to financial dependencies, we look at how climate policy risk might propagate through the financial system. We develop a...
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We investigate how a borrower’s adverse climate-related incidents affect bank loan contracting. Using a sample of 2 …-sectional tests, we find that the intensity and influence of adverse climate-related incidents exacerbate the pricing of bank loans …
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higher spreads on their bank loans. To alleviate the concerns related to using firms’ headquarters in determining climate …
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We examine whether banks manage firms’ climate transition risks via corporate loan securitization. Results show that banks are more likely to securitize loans granted to firms that become more carbon-intensive. The effect is more pronounced if banks have a lower willingness to adjust loan...
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Existing research finds that climate-related natural disasters generally have had insignificant effects on banks. In contrast, using forward-looking measures of climate risk at the U.S. county-level, we provide evidence that banks’ non-agency residential mortgage and small business lending as...
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on their loans than non-disaster firms. Floods reduce securitised credit in the local markets, suggesting that physical …
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Climate change is an existential threat to the world economy like no other, with complex, evolving and nonlinear … credit ratings. By means of binary-choice models, we find that climate change vulnerability has adverse effects on sovereign … credit ratings, after controlling for conventional macroeconomic determinants of credit worthiness. On the other hand, with …
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In this paper, we introduce a model to study the interaction between insurance and banking. We build on the Federal Crop Insurance Act of 1980, which significantly expanded and restructured the decades-old federal crop insurance program and adverse weather shocks - over-exposure of crops to heat...
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