The interaction of climate risk and bank liquidity: An emerging market perspective for transitions to low carbon energy

Qiaoqi Lang, Feng Ma, Nawazish Mirza and Muhammad Umar

Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2023, vol. 191, issue C

Abstract: Climate change leads to many financial risks, including exerting pressure on banking liquidity. The issue is plausibly more severe for emerging markets that suffer from financial frictions. Therefore, an assessment of the liquidity profile of banks in emerging markets is necessary to understand the devastating impact of climate risk to devise optimal financial strategies to support low-carbon transitions. Using a comprehensive sample of banks from twenty-three emerging markets and assessing data for over a decade, we report that climate risk is negatively associated with liquidity. This means that banks that are domiciled in countries with a higher level of climate risk are likely to experience more liquidity pressures. The finding remained robust for various definitions of liquidity and after controlling for a series of exogenous variables. We argue that such pressures emanate from both physical and transitional risks and therefore it is in the interest of financial intermediaries to devise sustainable financial strategies to support sustainable development goals and limit ecological degradation.

Keywords: Climate change; Emerging markets; Liquidity risk; Banking (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G18 G21 Q54 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2023.122480

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