Disclosure of climate-related financial risks greatly helps investors assess companies' preparedness for climate change. Voluntary disclosures such as those based on the recommendations of the Task Force for Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) are being hailed as an effective measure...

Unlike standard derivatives instruments, correlation products contain nonseparable risk, meaning that the price sensitivity of one risk factor is a function of the level of another risk factor. This article outlines the pricing and hedging of one type of correlation product, the differential...

We investigate the effect of commodity financialization on firm’s idiosyncratic risk. Our results reveal a positive effect of commodity financialization on firm’s idiosyncratic risk. Derivative usage and diversification strategy can negatively moderate the positive effect. Moreover, the...

This paper examines whether a higher proportion of co-opted board members following a CEO’s accession translates to greater climate change-related risk for the firm. Investigating 12,101 US-based firm-year observations from 2002-2014, we discover that firms with a higher level of co-opted...

We propose a methodology to measure the parameter estimation risk and model specification risk of pricing models, as well as model selection risk of model classes, based on realized payoffs, for products in the over-the-counter market. Lévy jump models and affine jump-diffusion models are...