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Do green bonds de-risk investment in low-carbon stocks?

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  • Reboredo, Juan C.
  • Ugolini, Andrea
  • Ojea-Ferreiro, Javier

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De-risking green investments is crucial to unlocking climate finance and to spurring investors’ interest in allocating resources to activities consistent with a resilient low-carbon economy. We explore the extent to which green bonds could de-risk investments in low-carbon assets by considering different market circumstances. We characterize joint dependence between green bonds and low-carbon assets and consider a de-risking metric based on expected shortfall. Our analysis for the Chinese, European and US markets for 2016 to 2020 indicates that green-bond and low-carbon stock returns move in opposite directions or independently, and a fall in green-bond returns below the 5% quantile increases the expected value of low-carbon stocks by 8.6% and 15.1% in the Chinese and European markets, respectively, but has a negligible effect on the US market. We also document that green bonds have sizeable diversification benefits when they are included in low-carbon investment portfolios.

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  • Reboredo, Juan C. & Ugolini, Andrea & Ojea-Ferreiro, Javier, 2022. "Do green bonds de-risk investment in low-carbon stocks?," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 108(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:ecmode:v:108:y:2022:i:c:s0264999322000116
    DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2022.105765
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    Green bonds; Low-carbon stocks; de-risking; Copulas; Expected shortfall;
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    • C58 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric Modeling - - - Financial Econometrics
    • G11 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Portfolio Choice; Investment Decisions
    • G12 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Asset Pricing; Trading Volume; Bond Interest Rates
    • Q01 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - General - - - Sustainable Development
    • Q50 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - General

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