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Using Credit Default Swap spreads, we construct a forward-looking, market-implied carbon risk factor and show that … carbon risk affects firms' credit spread. The effect is larger for European than North American firms and varies … to carbon risk when market-wide concern about climate change risk is elevated. Finally, lenders expect that adjustments …
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Rainfall is a truly exogeneous variable and hence popular as an instrument for many outcomes. But by its very nature, rainfall in nearby areas tends to be correlated. I show theoretically that if there are also spatial trends in outcomes of interest, this may create spurious correlation. In...
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monthly frequency. The econometric identification exploits exogenous monthly within-grid-cell variation in weather conditions …
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This study examines the effect of smallholder farmers' access to a formal climate risk transfer mechanism on their risk … preferences. Survey and experimental data were collected from smallholder farmers that have access to weather index-based crop …-purchaser farmers. Similarly, non-purchasers would have attained a significant reduction in their risk-aversion if they had taken up the …
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price rises at the risk-adjusted interest rate. Adding damages leads to a higher carbon price that grows more slowly. But as …
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We establish the financial materiality of temperature variability by demonstrating its impact on US firms and investors. A long-short strategy that sorts firms based on exposure earns a market-adjusted alpha of 39 basis points per month. This variability metric is related to aggregate decreases...
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This article deals with the integration of taxes into real option-based investment models under risk neutrality and … risk averison. It compares the possible approaches dynamic programming and contingent claims analysis to analyze their …, dynamic programming and contingent claims analysis yield identical investment thresholds under risk neutrality. In contrast …
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that different risk-groups prefer different types of contracts, and that only the sequential contracts, which are …
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This paper investigates the effect of adverse selection and price competition on the private annuity market in a model with two retirement periods. In this framework annuity companies can offer contracts with different payoffs over the periods of retirement. Varying the time structure of the...
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between funded and unfunded systems when there are sources of uninsurable risk that are allocated in different ways by …
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