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sectors via the destruction of capital stocks and jumps in risk premia. These disruptions often entail negative feedback … effects on the macroeconomy. Research on disaster risks has also actively been pursued in the macroeconomic models of climate … change. Our paper uses insights from the former work to study disaster risks in the macroeconomics of climate change and to …
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How damaging are uncertainty shocks during extreme events such as the great recession and the Covid-19 outbreak? Can monetary policy limit output losses in such situations? We use a nonlinear VAR framework to document the large response of real activity to a financial uncertainty shock during...
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Using survey data from German households, we find that individuals with lower climate concern tend to have higher inflation expectations up to five years ahead. This correlation is most pronounced among individuals with extremely high inflation expectations. Evaluating candidate explanations, we...
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Climate change has become one of the most prominent concerns globally. In this paper, we study the transition risk of … and output growth during the transition risk. With optimal carbon price designs, it should react even less to inflation …
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country-specific structural vector autoregression (VAR) models by combining estimated damages of disaster events with monthly …
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The article reviews the literature on the relationship between climate change and central bank policies. Central banks conduct monetary policy and are responsible for macroprudential supervision. The article focuses on the consequences of transition and physical risks for financial stability and...
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for central banks. First, a weather-related natural disaster could trigger financial and macroeconomic instability if it … it helps a wide range of investors better assess their financial risk exposures …
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How damaging are uncertainty shocks during extreme events such as the great recession and the Covid-19 outbreak? Can monetary policy limit output losses in such situations? We use a nonlinear VAR framework to document the large response of real activity to a financial uncertainty shock during...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012288020
The awareness about climate-related financial risks is gaining momentum both in the policy and academic debates. The role of countries' institutional dimension and central bank governance structures in the adoption of green prudential regulation is, however, overlooked in the current discussion....
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We study the implications of climate change and the associated mitigation measures for optimal monetary policy in a canonical New Keynesian model with climate externalities. Provided they are set at their socially optimal level, carbon taxes pose no trade-offs for monetary policy: it is both...
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