This study tackles a public finance issue on climate change: a carbon tax and government bonds to finance public spending for adaptation. This type of bond is known as ``green bonds" and presents remarkable growth in the global market. We construct an asset-pricing model in which climate change...

A consumption-based, long-run risk equilibrium model with nondurable and durable goods is estimated using US nominal interest rate data. The model generates upward-sloping nominal yield curves and nearly flat real yield curves, implying that the term structure of inflation risk premia is...

In 2008, first suspicions arose that the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) had been systematically manipulated by financial institutions involved with its fixing; in June 2012, several major international banks officially admitted to this. The regulatory response could not have been...

This paper investigates the financial risk-taking behavior of pension funds since 2000. I assemble a new database containing portfolio holdings of more than 100 pension funds from 14 advanced economies. The study reveals three key findings. First, I show that pension fund portfolios have become...