Pástor, Ľuboš; Stambaugh, Robert F.; Taylor, Lucian A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We quantify the U.S. corporate sector's carbon externality by computing the sector's "carbon burden"--the present value of social costs of its future carbon emissions. Our baseline estimate of the carbon burden is 131% of total corporate equity value. Among individual firms, 77% have carbon...