Authors: Martijn Boermans (De Nederlandsche Bank), Maurice Bun (De Nederlandsche Bank/University of Amsterdam), and Yasmine Van der Straten (University of Amsterdam)
Presenter: Yasmine Van der Straten (University of Amsterdam)
We study whether climate transition risk is priced in corporate bond markets and if investors value companies’ green innovation efforts. Using confidential bond-level holdings data and global firm-level data on carbon emissions and green innovation, we find a positive transition risk premium. This premium is smaller for emission-intensive firms that engage in green innovation, suggesting that investors value companies’ efforts to mitigate climate change. We show that European investors, in particular institutional investors, have a higher demand for bonds from emission-intensive firms that engage in green innovation and thus influence yield spreads related to climate transition risk.
Authors: Quyen Nguyen (University of Otago), Ivan Diaz-Rainey (Griffith University), Adam Kitto (University of New South Wales), Nicholas Pittman (EMMI), Renzhu Zhang (University of Otago)
