Hedging Climate Change News

Ströbel, Johannes, Robert Engle, Stefano Giglio, Bryan Kelly and Heebum Lee
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Johannes Stroebel

No 13730, CEPR Discussion Papers from C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers

Abstract: We propose and implement a procedure to dynamically hedge climate change risk. We extract innovations from climate news series that we construct through textual analysis of newspapers. We then use a mimicking portfolio approach to build climate change hedge portfolios. We discipline the exercise by using third-party ESG scores of firms to model their climate risk exposures. We show that this approach yields parsimonious and industry-balanced portfolios that perform well in hedging innovations in climate news both in sample and out of sample. We discuss multiple directions for future research on financial approaches to managing climate risk.

JEL-codes: G11 G18 Q54 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019-05
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