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Showing 1 to 20 of 66 for “"Climate risk"”.
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CLIMATE RISK AND CMBS LOAN PRICING
This paper examines the impact of climate risk on loan pricing in the CMBS loan market in the US. The study reveals that higher levels of risk are associated with increased credit spreads and decreased loan-to-value ratios. Among climate risk indicators, only Trepp’s high property damage indicators …
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Essays on Finance and Climate Risk
This thesis consists of three chapters on climate risks and financial markets. The first chapter studies how residential mortgage contracts distribute flood risk exposures across banks, households, and the government flood insurer. I find that banks offload flood risk to the government through …
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Climate risk and resilience of urban sanitation
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2027-08-01
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Design of a Market Exchange for Climate risk
… are the primary contributor to a warming climate, but disagreement exists in the likelihood and impact of this change. For example, projections for sea level rise (SLR) have been developed by certain cities, and the mitigating costs related to managing this risk can be estimated. Still, …
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The physics, economics, and political economy of climate risk
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-19 without embargo terms
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A Multidisciplinary Analysis of a Stratospheric Airborne Climate Observatory System for Key Climate Risk Areas
A Stratospheric Airborne Climate Observatory System is proposed to leverage recent advancements in key enabling technologies for solar electric flight (batteries and solar cells) and enabling technologies for Earth observation (lidar, radar, laser systems, etc.). Advantages of this observation …
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What is the impact of livelihood strategies on farmers' climate risk perceptions in the Bolivian highlands?
… Highland region in Bolivia possesses a harsh climate environment that is highly variable. This study combines risk perception literature and livelihood strategy literature to examine climate risk perceptions. Studying the risk perceptions of the Aymara people can give policy-makers an …
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Carbon finance, tropical forests and the state : governing international climate risk in the Democratic Republic of Congo
… examines how evolving norms of international climate change mitigation are translated into national forest governance policies and land management techniques in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The development of administrative mechanisms to reduce emissions from deforestation and …
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Unearthing Regulatory Influences on Climate Risk Adaptation: Exploring Asset Stranding and Regulatory Shortcomings in the US Housing Market
… exhaustively assessed the implications that ESG risk may pose to the financial industry despite anthropogenic temperature change being duly and scientifically described in the Paris Agreement in December 2015 (Schellnhuber et al., 2016). Both banks and insurance companies will be impacted, …
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Four essays on capital structure dynamics: special reference to level of leverage, state ownership, corporate governance and climate risk
… in terms of SOA of capital structure, to climate-change risk, namely, drought. Using a fractional dependent estimator (DPF) approach and 130,511 U.S. firm-year observations over the period 1970-2015, we document an adverse and significant influence of drought on capital structure and the …
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Pricing Climate Uncertainty: Evidence from Natural Interest Rates to Green Premiums
Climate change introduces a new dimension of systemic uncertainty that is complex, poorly understood, and difficult to quantify. Both physical and transition risks exhibit fat-tailed distributions, are underrepresented in historical data, and carry potentially unlimited downside exposure. These …
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Essays on Climatic Risks and Vulnerability-Reduction Strategies
… analyzes three dfferent dimensions of climate risk: (i) impacts and responses to climate change in physical and biological systems; (ii) socio-economic consequences of climatic variability in human systems; and (iii) the design of formal insurance instruments to reduce socio-economic …
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Climate allies : how urban/military interdependence enables adaptation
As climate impacts escalate, U.S. cities and regions have attempted to fill the federal leadership vacuum in spite of their own resource constraints. In the midst of federal inertia, the Department of Defense (DoD) acknowledges climate risk, mainstreaming it into policy, while defense experts …
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A systematic review of climate adaptation planning in African cities
In recent years the need for climate change adaptation has become increasingly important. Adaptation planning is understood to be the process by which actors identify, develop, test, and prioritise strategies and measures to reduce climate risk. In Africa, climate projections predict higher …
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Climate Change and Municipal Bond Ratings
This paper examines whether climate change risks are incorporated into municipal bond ratings. In particular, I investigate whether municipalities with exposure to sea-level rise have lower bond ratings. Using a sample of rated bond issuances from 2011 to 2020, I docu- ment a negative relationship …
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The role of indigenous and local knowledge on climate adaptation for smallholder farmers in Chiredzi, Zimbabwe
… farmers' resilience to the impacts of climate change requires informed decision-making that utilises locally validated information sources, including Indigenous knowledge (IK) and local knowledge (LK). Smallholder farmers across multiple regions of the world rely on IK and LK forecasts …
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