identify an asymmetric information problem: borrowers signal low financial risk to banks who are uncertain about borrower risk …

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 …

change and the economy; and (iii) further explore "compound risk" scenarios in which climate risks co-occur with other risks … risk pricing in financial markets; and (iv) better understand and incorporate the process of expectations formation around …

We argue that risk sharing motivates the bank-wide structure of bonus pay. In the presence of financial frictions that … make external financing costly, the optimal contract between shareholders and employees involves some degree of risk … to rationalize with incentive theories of bonus pay - but support an important risk sharing motive. In particular …

with risk-averse investors show commitment as favorable. …