Staff Reports
CRISK: Measuring the Climate Risk Exposure of the Financial System
Previous title: “Climate Stress Testing”
Number 977
September 2021 Revised March 2023

JEL classification: Q54, C53, G20

Authors: Hyeyoon Jung, Robert Engle, and Richard Berner

We develop a market-based methodology to assess banks’ resilience to climate-related risks and study the climate-related risk exposure of large global banks. We introduce a new measure, CRISK, which is the expected capital shortfall of a bank in a climate stress scenario. To estimate CRISK, we construct climate risk factors and dynamically measure banks’ stock return sensitivity (that is, climate beta) to the climate risk factor. We validate the climate risk factor empirically and the climate beta estimates by using granular data on large U.S. banks’ loan portfolios. The measure is useful in quantifying banks’ climate-related risk exposure through the market risk and the credit risk channels.

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Author Disclosure Statement(s)
This research was funded in part by a grant from the National Science Foundation (grant 2218455), Norges Bank, and the Inter-American Development Bank. The funding sources did not have any input into the research process or the results.

Hyeyoon Jung declares that she has no relevant or material financial interests that relate to the research described in this paper.

Robert Engle declares that he has no relevant or material financial interests that relate to the research described in this paper.

Richard Berner declares that he has no relevant or material financial interests that relate to the research described in this paper.

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