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This paper studies the association between financial development, financial stability, and poverty for a sample of 109 … development, and only a few recent studies have looked at the effects of financial stability on poverty. However, none of the … existing studies has looked at the interaction effect of the two on poverty. Our contribution to this literature is manifold …
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different types of financial crises impact the poverty headcount ratio and the poverty gap (as measured by the World Bank). Our … crises on poverty. We employ multivariate fixed effects panel data analysis in order to examine whether and to what extent … significantly exacerbate both the incidence and depth of poverty in the short run. We find evidence that banking crises are …
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We study whether floods can affect financial stability through a credit risk channel. Our focus is on the Netherlands, a country situated partly below sea level, where insurance policies exclude property damages caused by some types of floods. Using geocoded data for close to EUR 650 billion in...
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Fighting climate change is one of the biggest challenges in the 21st century. Climate change that leads to global warming has been increasingly visible in our environment. Extreme weather conditions such as hurricanes, floods, and droughts have been escalating and their acceleration can be...
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This paper studies the exposure of European investment funds to transition climate risks and its implications for the rest of the financial system. Based on granular data on investment funds’ assets and liabilities, we measure the percentage of brown assets in funds' portfolios and the extent...
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Nowadays climate change and global warming tend to be considered primarily through the lens of environmental degradation and increased frequency of natural calamities. Meanwhile, it is pivotal to note that the implications of this process are reaching far beyond these trends, affecting the...
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There is increasing concern among financial regulators that changes in the distribution and frequency of extreme weather events induced by climate change could pose a threat to global financial stability. In order to assess this risk, we develop a simple model of the propagation of...
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Using a stock-flow-fund ecological macroeconomic model, we analyse (i) the effects of climate change on financial stability and (ii) the financial and global warming implications of a green quantitative easing (QE) programme. Emphasis is placed on the impact of climate change damages on the...
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