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Sustainable and Green Finance

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May 2024

Carbon pricing is considered as one of the most cost-effective ways to reduce carbon emissions. However, a major block to pricing carbon pollution is the concern about the economic costs. This paper examines the impacts of carbon pricing initiatives on the operating performance and market value of p...
Keywords: Climate change, carbon pricing, carbon tax, emission trading systems, carbon premium, distributional effects
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Accounting, Senior Fellows/Fellows

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May 2019

China presents a unique opportunity to study public enforcement of mandatory disclosure when private enforcement is largely absent. Using a hand-collected sample of comment letters (CLs) on annual reports issued by the Shanghai Stock Exchange, we first show that the price reaction to CL announcement...
Keywords: public enforcement, private enforcement, institutional environment, comment letters, disclosure, ear
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Real Estate and Urban Economics

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May 2021

We examine whether beliefs about climate change affect loan officers’ mortgage lending decisions. We show that abnormally high local temperature leads to elevated attention to and belief in climate change in a region. Loan officers approve fewer mortgage applications and originate lower amount of ...
Keywords: Climate Change, Global warming, mortgage lending, Temperature Anomaly
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Investment Finance

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May 2021

This paper examines the pricing of a firm's carbon risk in the corporate bond market. Contrary to the "carbon risk premium" hypothesis, bonds of more carbon-intensive firms earn significantly lower returns. This effect cannot be explained by a comprehensive list of bond characteristics and exposure ...
Keywords: Climate Change, Carbon emissions, Corporate bond returns, ESG investing
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Accounting

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May 2019

China presents a unique opportunity to study public enforcement of mandatory disclosure when private enforcement is largely absent. Using a hand-collected sample of comment letters (CLs) on annual reports issued by the Shanghai Stock Exchange, we first show that the price reaction to CL announcement...
Keywords: public enforcement, private enforcement, institutional environment, comment letters, disclosure, ear
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