There is an ongoing debate about the impact of environmental performance on a firm's cost of capital, but most academic studies are hindered by methodological challenges. The real estate sector, which is at the nexus of many environmental and energy issues, offers a laboratory to address the...

Natural disasters such as hurricanes, floods, heatwaves and wildfires are projected to become more prevalent in the foreseeable future. Climate risk is therefore increasingly recognized as an important factor by policy makers, the investment community, and financial markets. Due to the...

Comparing banks to non-bank lenders, we investigate whether the geographical distance between lenders, borrowers and their properties is reflected in the pricing of US mortgages that were included in US CMBS pools during the 2000 to 2017 period. The difference in loan spread when bank-borrower...