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Stellungnahme „Übergreifende Kostenbetrachtung der Auswirkungen des Klimawandels in Schleswig-Holstein“
Katja Heinisch, Oliver Holtemöller, Christoph Schult
IWH Policy Notes,
No. 1,
2023
Abstract
anlässlich der Anhörung im Umwelt- und Agrarausschuss des Schleswig-Holsteinischen Landtags ‒ Antrag der Fraktion der SPD, Drucksache 20/414
Der Klimawandel in Schleswig-Holstein führt zu Veränderungen in Umwelt, Wirtschaft und Arbeitswelt, und er hat Auswirkungen auf die Gesundheit der Menschen. Der wissenschaftliche Konsens geht davon aus, dass die sozioökonomischen und ökologischen Effekte des Klimawandels weltweit überwiegend negativ sein werden. Aus diesem Grund schreibt das Klimaschutzgesetz vor, dass die deutschen Treibhausgasemissionen bis zum Jahr 2030 um mindestens 65% und bis zum Jahr 2040 um mindestens 88% reduziert werden sollen; bis zum Jahr 2045 soll Klimaneutralität in Deutschland erreicht werden. Schleswig-Holstein hat eigene Klimaschutzziele und Maßnahmen eingeführt. Unsicherheiten bestehen jedoch hinsichtlich der nationalen und regionalen Kosten des Klimawandels. Bisherige Studien deuten darauf hin, dass in der zweiten Hälfte des
21. Jahrhunderts in Deutschland die jährlichen Verluste des Bruttoinlandsprodukts unter einem Prozent liegen werden. Zur Plausibilisierung dieser Zahl ist es notwendig, eine transparente und replizierbare Klimawandelfolgenabschätzung für Schleswig-Holstein vorzunehmen. Es wird daher empfohlen, dem Antrag zuzustimmen.
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Carbon Transition Risk and Corporate Loan Securitization
Isabella Müller, Huyen Nguyen, Trang Nguyen
IWH Discussion Papers,
No. 22,
2022
Abstract
We examine how banks manage carbon transition risk by selling loans given to polluting borrowers to less regulated shadow banks in securitization markets. Exploiting the election of Donald Trump as an exogenous shock that reduces carbon risk, we find that banks’ securitization decisions are sensitive to borrowers’ carbon footprints. Banks are more likely to securitize brown loans when carbon risk is high but swiftly change to keep these loans on their balance sheets when carbon risk is reduced after Trump’s election. Importantly, securitization enables banks to offer lower interest rates to polluting borrowers but does not affect the supply of green loans. Our findings are more pronounced among domestic banks and banks that do not display green lending preferences. We discuss how securitization can weaken the effectiveness of bank climate policies through reducing banks’ incentives to price carbon risk.
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Banking Reform, Risk-Taking, and Accounting Quality: Evidence from Post-Soviet Transition States
Yiwei Fang, Wassim Dbouk, Iftekhar Hasan, Lingxiang Li
Journal of International Accounting Research,
No. 1,
2022
Abstract
The drastic banking reform within Central and Eastern Europe following the collapse of the Soviet Union provides an ideal quasi-experimental design to examine the causal effects of institutional development on accounting quality (AQ). We find that banking reform spurs significant improvement in predictive power of earnings and reductions in earnings smoothing, earnings-inflating discretionary provisions, and avoidance of reporting losses. These effects hold under alternative model specifications and after considering concurrent institutional developments. In contrast, corporate reform shows no such effects, refuting the alternative explanation that unobserved factors affect both reform speed in general and the quality of financial reporting. We further identify four specific reformative actions that are integral to the drastic banking reform process where prudential regulation contributes the most to the observed AQ improvement. It supports the conjecture that banking reform improves AQ by reducing banks' risk-taking behaviors and, as a result, their motive behind accounting manipulation.
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15.04.2021 • 11/2021
Pandemic delays upswing – Demography slows growth
In their spring report, the leading economic research institutes forecast an increase in gross domestic product of 3.7% in the current year and 3.9% in 2022. The renewed shutdown is delaying the economic recovery, but as soon as the risks of infection, particularly from vaccination, have been averted, a strong recovery will begin. The economy is likely to return to normal output levels around the start of the coming year.
Oliver Holtemöller
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