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Do banks fuel climate change?

Do climate-oriented regulatory policies affect the flow of credit towards polluting corporations? We match loan-level data to firm-level greenhouse gas emissions to assess the impact of the Paris Agreement. We find that, following this agreement, European banks reallocated credit away from polluting firms. In the aftermath of President Trump's 2017 announcement that the United States was withdrawing from the Paris Agreement, lending by European banks to polluting firms in the United States decreased even further in relative terms. It follows that green regulatory initiatives in banking can have a significant impact combating climate change.

ISBN
978-92-899-4550-9
Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: ECB Working Paper ; No. 2550

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Money Supply; Credit; Money Multipliers
Financial Institutions and Services: Government Policy and Regulation
Taxation and Subsidies: Externalities; Redistributive Effects; Environmental Taxes and Subsidies
Thema
Climate change
Paris Agreement
Trump
loan-level data
difference-in-differences

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Reghezza, Alessio
Altunbaðs, Yener
Marqués Ibáñez, David
D'Acri, Costanza Rodriguez
Spaggiari, Martina
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
European Central Bank (ECB)
(wo)
Frankfurt a. M.
(wann)
2021

DOI
doi:10.2866/825242
Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Reghezza, Alessio
  • Altunbaðs, Yener
  • Marqués Ibáñez, David
  • D'Acri, Costanza Rodriguez
  • Spaggiari, Martina
  • European Central Bank (ECB)

Entstanden

  • 2021

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