Is Climate Transition Risk Priced into Corporate Credit Risk? Evidence from Credit Default Swaps

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We study whether climate transition risk is reflected in the credit default swap (CDS) spreads of firms. Using information on the vulnerability of a firm's value to the transition to a low carbon economy, we construct a climate transition risk (CTR) factor, and document how this factor shifts the term structure of the CDS spreads of more vulnerable firms but not of less vulnerable firms. Considering the impact of different climate transition policies on the CTR factor, we find that they have asymmetric and significant economic impacts on the credit risk of more vulnerable firms, and negligible effects on the remaining firms.

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• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: Working Paper ; No. 04.2023

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Truncated and Censored Models; Switching Regression Models; Threshold Regression Models ; Asset Pricing; Trading Volume; Bond Interest Rates ; Financing Policy; Financial Risk and Risk Management; Capital and Ownership Structure; Value of Firms; Goodwill ; Climate; Natural Disasters and Their Management; Global Warming
• Thema: Climate transition risk ; CDS spreads ; credit risk

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Ugolini, Andrea ; Reboredo, Juan C. ; Ojea-Ferreiro, Javier
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM)
• (wo): Milano
• (wann): 2023

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/273161
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ