In the presence of rising concern about climate change that potentially affects risk and return of investors’ portfolio companies, active investors might have dispersed climate risk exposures. We compute mutual fund covariance with market-wide climate change news index and find that high...

Atmospheric CO2 concentrations and surface temperature reconstructions in the study period 1850-2017 are used to estimate observed equilibrium climate sensitivity. Comparison of climate sensitivities in the first and second halves of the study period and a study of climate sensitivities in a...

1. Introduction -- 2. Description of Developed Countries’ Climate Policy -- 3. Description of BRICS and Indonesia’s Climate Policy -- 4. Literature Review on Emissions Convergence -- 5. Data and Empirical Strategy -- 6. Econometric Methods -- 7. Empirical Results -- 8. PANIC Results -- 9....

Does a permanent rise in temperature decrease the level or growth rate of GDP in affected countries? Differing answers to this question lead prominent estimates of climate damages to diverge by an order of magnitude. This paper combines indirect evidence on economic growth with new empirical...