credit risk

In this paper the authors use Credit Default Swap (CDS) spreads to construct a forward-looking, market-implied carbon risk factor and study how, where and when carbon risk affects firms’ creditworthiness by examining whether firms’ exposure to carbon risk is reflected in the market prices of their CDS contracts. Read more

This commentary explains a new way to measure how the scope and speed of the economic transformation needed to mitigate climate change and the associated credit risk vary across sectors, jurisdictions and time. Read more