 Climate change uncertainty and supply chain financingZhangfan Cao, Steven Xianglong Chen, Ting Dong and Edward Lee The British Accounting Review, 2025, vol. 57, issue 5 Abstract: We examine the impact of climate change uncertainty on supply chain financing. We find that firms significantly curtail trade credit provision during periods of high climate change uncertainty. The cross-sectional variations of this effect with firm-specific factors such as vulnerability to climate change, asset redeployability, and pollution severity suggest that it is primarily driven by managerial anticipation of physical damage cost rather than regulatory cost that the uncertainty could incur. The moderation of this effect by exogenous regulatory interventions such as state-level staggered adoption of the Climate Change Adaptation Plans and the Interstate Banking and Branching Efficiency Act suggests that managerial concerns of such cost can be alleviated through the improvement of climate change preparation and external financing respectively. Overall, our study reveals that climate change undermines the financial resilience of the supply chain and provides timely policy implications for tackling climate change against the backdrop of the global supply chain crisis. Keywords: Climate change uncertainty; Supply chain financing; Climate change adaptation plans; Financial resilience (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:bracre:v:57:y:2025:i:5:s0890838924001872 DOI: 10.1016/j.bar.2024.101423 Access Statistics for this article The British Accounting Review is currently edited by Nathan Lael Joseph and Alan Lowe More articles in The British Accounting Review from Elsevier |
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