[FREE TO READ] Reinsurance trade group appeals to US commerce secretary Lutnick to preserve data collection after thousands of jobs axed

Our policies encourage Americans to flock to areas particularly prone to climate-related disasters.

I study the impact of lenders’ environmental responsibility. My empirical setting exploits the U.S. Lender Liability Act of 1996, which reduced lenders' exposur

(February 2019) - This paper measures the effects of bankruptcy protection on industry structure and environmental outcomes in oil and gas extraction. Using administrative data from Texas, I exploit v...

Oil executive Tom Ragsdale walked away from his old wells, making the pollution left behind the state of New Mexico’s problem. His tactics, however, are ubiquitous in the industry.

Morgan Stanley terminated its membership of a major climate-banking group, joining a wave of Wall Street firms that recently quit a global alliance intended to aid the reduction of greenhouse-gas emis...

<div> Despite growing climate losses, Americans continue to move into high risk areas. This paper uses a range of natural experiments to show how mispricing of

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac don’t factor climate change into rates. More frequent floods, hurricanes and wildfires raise systemic default risk.

Wharton’s Ben Keys on how climate change is already reshaping the insurance and housing markets — and how our denial is only making the problem worse.