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Compounding COVID-19 and climate risks: The interplay of banks’ lending and government’s policy in the shock recovery
Journal of Banking & Finance, Volume 136, March 2022.
Authors assess the individual and compounding&nb ...
Author(s):
Nepomuk Dunz, Arthur Hrast Essenfelder, Andrea Mazzocchetti, Irene Monasterolo, Marco Raberto
Summary:
Journal of Banking & Finance, Volume 136, March 2022.
Authors assess the individual and compounding impacts of COVID-19 and climate physical risks in the economy and finance, using the EIRIN Stock-Flow Consistent model.
They the interplay between banks’ lending decisions and government’s policy effectiveness in the economic recovery process. They calibrate EIRIN on Mexico, being a country highly exposed to COVID-19 and hurricanes risks. By embedding financial actors and the credit market, and by endogenising investors’ expectations, EIRIN analyses the finance-economy feedbacks, providing an accurate assessment of risks and policy co-benefits.
They quantify the impacts of compounding COVID-19 and hurricanes on GDP through time using a compound risk indicator.
They find that procyclical lending and credit market constraints amplify the initial shocks by limiting firms’ recovery investments, thus mining the effectiveness of higher government spending. When COVID-19 and hurricanes compound, non-linear dynamics that amplify losses emerge, negatively affecting the economic recovery, banks’ financial stability and public debt sustainability.
Keywords
COVID-19, Climate change, Compound risk, Government policies, Stock-flow consistent model, Credit market constraints, Procyclical bank lending, Macrofinancial impacts
| Type : | Academic Publication |
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| Date : | 07/10/2021 |
| Editor : | Journal of Banking & Finance |
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