Climate stress testing for mortgage default probability

Luca Zanin, Raffaella Calabrese and Connor Innes Thorburn

International Review of Financial Analysis, 2024, vol. 95, issue PB

Abstract: Extreme natural disasters, such as tropical cyclones, have a low probability of materialising, but a high social and economic impact, including spillover to financial institutions. We propose a framework for performing a climate-stress testing exercise for the default probability of mortgage loans. We estimated a dynamic credit scoring model based on survival analysis with a relative damage index built using the wind speed of tropical cyclones. We considered scenarios involving tropical cyclone wind speeds with different return periods. We analyse a portfolio of approximately 190,000 mortgage loans granted in Louisiana, one of the US states most affected by tropical cyclones. Our findings suggest that coastline areas are most exposed to severe damage from tropical cyclones. If the geographical area is exposed to an event with a very large return period of 1-in-1,000 years, the probability of default increases by approximately nine percentage points compared to a baseline scenario in the absence of tropical cyclones. However, this finding was mitigated by the insurance coverage. This percentage increases to almost 20 percent in the absence of insurance coverage.

Keywords: Climate stress testing; Mortgage default probability; Survival model; Extreme physical risks; Return period (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1016/j.irfa.2024.103497

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