Arbeitspapier

Accounting for climate transition risk in banks' capital requirements

This paper uses a stylized simulation model to assess the potential impact of transition risk on banks' balance sheets and establishes a basis for calibrating relevant macro-prudential instruments. We show that even in the short run, a fire-sale mechanism could amplify an initially contained shock on highcarbon assets into a systemic crisis with significant losses for the EU banking sector. We calculate that an additional capital buer of 0.5% RWA on average would be sucient to protect the system. Moreover, under an orderly transition, the decrease in banks' transition risk exposure due to the greening of the economy would reduce the eect of a fire-sale by a factor of 10.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: JRC Working Papers in Economics and Finance ; No. 2022/8

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Statistical Simulation Methods: General
Climate; Natural Disasters and Their Management; Global Warming
Thema
Green transition risk
dynamic balance sheet
banking crisis

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Alessi, Lucia
Di Girolamo, Erica Francesca
Pagano, Andrea
Petracco Giudici, Marco
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
European Commission
(wo)
Ispra
(wann)
2022

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Alessi, Lucia
  • Di Girolamo, Erica Francesca
  • Pagano, Andrea
  • Petracco Giudici, Marco
  • European Commission

Entstanden

  • 2022

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