Climate Change and the Role of Regulatory Capital: a Stylized Framework for Policy Assessment
Michael Holscher et al.
What the paper says
This article presents a stylized, non-country-specific framework to assess conceptually how the financial risks of climate change could interact with a regulatory capital regime. We summarize core features of a bank capital regime such as expected and unexpected losses, minimum capital ratios, buffers, and risk-weighted assets, and then consider where climate-related risk drivers may be relevant. While climate change could potentially impact the regulatory capital regime in several ways, an internally coherent approach requires a strong link between specific assumptions about how financial risks may manifest as bank losses and what objectives regulators are pursuing. We conclude by identifying the challenges that climate-related uncertainties pose to policymakers and highlighting potential research opportunities to better understand these complex issues and inform policy development.
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Evidence weight
Balanced mode · F 0.40 / M 0.15 / V 0.05 / R 0.40
| F · citation impact | 0.16 × 0.4 = 0.06 |
| M · momentum | 0.53 × 0.15 = 0.08 |
| V · venue signal | 0.50 × 0.05 = 0.03 |
| R · text relevance † | 0.50 × 0.4 = 0.20 |
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