Climate stress testing

VV Acharya, R Berner, R Engle, H Jung… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
We explore the design of climate stress tests to assess and manage macroprudential risks
from climate change in the financial sector. We review the climate stress scenarios currently …

Biodiversity risk

S Giglio, T Kuchler, J Stroebel, X Zeng - 2023 - nber.org
We explore the effects of physical and regulatory risks related to biodiversity loss on
economic activity and asset values. We first develop a news-based measure of aggregate …

[图书][B] Is physical climate risk priced? Evidence from regional variation in exposure to heat stress

We exploit regional variations in exposure to heat stress to study if physical climate risk is
priced in municipal and corporate bonds as well as in equity markets. We find consistent …

Climate gentrification: Valuing perceived climate risks in property prices

JJ Thompson, RL Wilby, JK Hillier… - Annals of the …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
There is growing evidence that physical climate hazards—such as floods and wildfires—
affect property prices. Climate change scenarios suggest more frequent and severe physical …

Nature as a defense from disasters: Natural capital and municipal bond yields

C Rizzi - Available at SSRN 4038371, 2022 - papers.ssrn.com
This paper shows that natural capital loss affects financial markets and municipalities'
borrowing costs. Using exogenous geographic variation in wetland changes, I find that …

Measuring the climate risk exposure of insurers

H Jung, RF Engle, S Ge, X Zeng - 2023 - econstor.eu
Insurance companies can be exposed to climate-related physical risk through their
operations and to transition risk through their $12 trillion of financial asset holdings. We …

Impact of Flooding and Drought Risks on the Cost of Bond Financing for Water Utilities

D Li, R Saigal, P Adriaens - Environmental Science & Technology, 2024 - ACS Publications
The global water cycle has experienced significant changes due to the interplay of climate
shifts and human activities, resulting in more frequent and severe droughts and floods …

The social value of predicting hurricanes

R Molina, I Rudik - 2022 - papers.ssrn.com
Hurricanes are among the costliest natural disasters in the world, with a significant portion of
their impact linked to the accuracy of their forecasts. In this paper, we estimate the economic …

City hall has been hacked! the financial costs of lax cybersecurity

F Curti, I Ivanov, M Macchiavelli… - The Financial Costs of …, 2023 - papers.ssrn.com
State and local governments are attractive cybercrime targets because of inadequate
cybersecurity and ample access to sensitive information. We show that external data …

Communities as stakeholders: Impact of corporate bankruptcies on local governments

S Chava, B Malakar, M Singh - Georgia Tech Scheller College of …, 2022 - papers.ssrn.com
We provide new evidence that the bankruptcy filing of a locally headquartered and publicly-
listed manufacturing firm imposes externalities on the local governments. Compared to …