CRISK: Measuring the climate risk exposure of the financial system

A-Tier
Journal: Journal of Financial Economics
Year: 2025
Volume: 171
Issue: C

Authors (3)

Jung, Hyeyoon (not in RePEc) Engle, Robert F. (New York University (NYU)) Berner, Richard (not in RePEc)

Score contribution per author:

1.341 = (α=2.01 / 3 authors) × 2.0x A-tier

α: calibrated so average coauthorship-adjusted count equals average raw count

Abstract

We develop a market-based methodology to assess banks’ resilience to climate-related risks and study the climate-related risk exposure of large global banks. We introduce a new measure, CRISK, which is the expected capital shortfall of a bank in a climate stress scenario. To estimate CRISK, we construct climate risk factors and dynamically measure banks’ stock return sensitivity (that is, climate beta) to the climate risk factor. We validate the climate risk factor empirically and the climate beta estimates by using granular data on large US banks’ loan portfolios. The measure is useful in quantifying banks’ climate-related risk exposure through the market risk and the credit risk channels.

Technical Details

RePEc Handle
repec:eee:jfinec:v:171:y:2025:i:c:s0304405x25000844
Journal Field
Finance
Author Count
3
Added to Database
2026-01-25