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Erscheinungsjahr: 
2022
Schriftenreihe/Nr.: 
Sveriges Riksbank Working Paper Series No. 409
Verlag: 
Sveriges Riksbank, Stockholm
Zusammenfassung: 
This paper explores how the need to transition to a low-carbon economy influences credit risk. It develops a novel dataset covering firms' greenhouse gas emissions over time alongside information on strategies for managing transition risk, including climate disclosure practices and forward-looking emission reduction targets. It assesses how such metrics influence firms' credit ratings and their market-implied distance-to-default. High emissions tend to be associated with higher credit risk. But disclosing emissions and setting emission reduction targets are associated with lower credit risk, with the effect somewhat stronger for more ambitious climate commitments. After the Paris agreement, firms most exposed to transition risk also saw their ratings deteriorate relative to otherwise comparable firms, with the effect larger for European than US firms, probably reflecting differential climate policy expectations. These results have policy implications for corporate disclosures and strategies around climate change, and the treatment of climate-related transition risk in the financial sector
Schlagwörter: 
climate change
transition risk
disclosure
net zero
green finance
credit risk
JEL: 
C58
E58
G11
G32
Q51
Q56
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