Impacts of Drought on Loan Repayment

Joseph L. Breeden ()
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Joseph L. Breeden: Deep Future Analytics LLC, 1600 Lena St., Suite E3, Santa Fe, NM 87505, USA

JRFM, 2023, vol. 16, issue 2, 1-14

Abstract: In order to stress test loan portfolios for the impacts of climate change, historical events need to be analyzed to create templates to stress test for future events. Using the 2012 Midwestern US drought as an example, this work creates a stress-testing template for future droughts. The analysis connects weather and crop yield data to impacts on local macroeconomic conditions by comparing drought-impacted agricultural counties with nearby urban counties. After measuring the net macroeconomic impacts of the drought, this was used as an overlay with existing macroeconomic stress models to stress test a lender in a different part of the US for possible drought impacts. Having a library of such climate events would allow lenders to stress test their portfolios for a wide range of possible impacts.

Keywords: climate change; drought; loan defaults; stress testing; age–period–cohort models (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C E F2 F3 G (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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