This study examines the relationship between carbon policy risk and corporate capital structure in China. Using a sample of A-share listed firms from 1997 to 2018, we find that carbon policy risk reduces firms’ financial leverage. The result is robust to the introduction of...

Using daily data, we provide fresh international evidence that an occurrence of natural disaster is accompanied by an increase in the market implied volatility of the main equity index in the same country contemporaneously and in the future. The relation between market implied volatility and...