Monthly seminars "chaire ACPR"

 

The ACPR Research Initiative seminar highlights high-quality research addressing issues of regulation and systemic risk for both banks and insurance firms. 

The seminar takes place on the first Wednesday of the month from 10.30 am to 12 am in the premises of the ACPR: 4, place de Budapest, Salle Liège (rez-de-jardin).

The seminar is open to everybody. Registration by email at chaireACPR@acpr.banque-france.fr is free but compulsory in order to attend. If you wish to be informed of upcoming events, please send an email to the same address.

The ACPR Studies Department organizes independent seminars as well: the page dedicated to the ACPR research seminars is available here.

 

NEXT EVENT

Wednesday, 14th of November 2024, 10.30 am – 12 pm

Klaus Schaeck (University of Bristol)

“Climate stress tests, bank lending, and the transition to the carbon-neutral economy”


 

Abstract:

We ask if bank supervisors' efforts to combat climate change affect banks' lending and their borrowers' transition to the carbon-neutral economy. Combining information from the French supervisory agency's climate pilot exercise with borrowers' emission data, we first show that banks that participate in the exercise increase lending to high-carbon emitters but simultaneously charge higher interest rates. Second, participating banks collect new information about climate risks, and boost lending for green purposes. Third, receiving credit from a participating bank facilitates borrowers' efforts to improve environmental performance. Our findings establish a hitherto undocumented link between banking supervision and the transition to net-zero.

 

Please note that this seminar will take place in a hybrid mode (the seminar will take place at the ACPR 4 Pl. de Budapest, 75009 Paris , and will also be streamed online).

(Free) registration (for both in person or online participation) is compulsory by mail at chaireACPR@acpr.banque-france.fr

If you opt for online participation, the connection details will be sent to you in the following days.

TO CONTACT US

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Wednesday, 2sd of October 2024, 10.30 am – 12 pm

Oussama Houari (University of Nantes)

“Climate Risks and Economic Activity in France : Evidence From Media Coverage”


 

Abstract:

This study investigates the impact of climate risks on economic activity in France. Using natural language processing methods on three major French newspapers (Le Monde, Les Echos, and Le Figaro) in 2000-2023, we construct a measure of climate risks that we disentangle into physical- and transition-risk components. Our findings highlight several transmission channels through which climate risks affect the economy: the business cycle channel, the precautionary savings channel, the inflation channel, and the banking/credit channel. Moreover, while we document the existence of heterogeneous responses to our measures of physical and transition risks, we find that the tone of media covering climate risks matters beyond the frequency of published articles. Our findings show that the media plays a crucial role in influencing public beliefs about climate change related issues.

 

Please note that this seminar will take place in a hybrid mode (the seminar will take place at the ACPR 4 Pl. de Budapest, 75009 Paris , and will also be streamed online).

(Free) registration (for both in person or online participation) is compulsory by mail at chaireACPR@acpr.banque-france.fr

If you opt for online participation, the connection details will be sent to you in the following days.

TO CONTACT US

- Article

 

 

Publication Seminars
Social media as a Bank Run Catalyst

Social media fueled a bank run on Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), and the effects were felt broadly in the U.S. banking industry. We employ comprehensive Twitter data to show that preexisting exposure to social media predicts bank stock market losses in the...

  • Published on 11/29/2023
  • FR
  • PDF (1.25 MB)
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The state-dependent impact of changes in bank capital requirements

Based on a non-linear equilibrium model of the banking sector with an occasionally-binding equity issuance constraint, we show that the economic impact of changes in bank capital requirements depends on the state of the macro-financial environment. In ...

  • Published on 10/12/2023
  • FR
  • PDF (2.74 MB)
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International banking regulation and Tier 1 capital ratios. On the robustness of the critical average risk weight framework

Under Basel III, the current international banking regulation, banks must maintain two Tier 1 capital ratios that treat risky assets differently. The Basel Committee uses the critical average risk weight (CARW) framework developed by the Bank of...

  • Published on 09/13/2023
  • FR
  • PDF (665.51 KB)
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Incomplete supervisory cooperation

Banking supervisors frequently cooperate across countries, but cooperation only imperfectly covers the global operations of large banking groups. We show that this causes significant third-country externalities. Using hand-collected supervisory...

  • Published on 08/22/2023
  • FR
  • PDF (2.7 MB)
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The Effect of Mandatory ESG Disclosure Around the World

We compile a novel dataset on mandatory environmental, social, and governance (ESG) disclosure around the world to analyze the stock liquidity effects of such disclosure mandates. We document a significant positive effect of ESG disclosure mandates on...

  • Published on 08/22/2023
  • FR
  • PDF (1.86 MB)
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Financing and Resolving Banking Groups

We study how banks’ resolution regimes affect investment. Banking groups create financing synergies by transferring excess financing capacity across units and lowering bankers’ agency rents from monitoring. Single-point-of entry (SPOE) resolution...

  • Published on 05/16/2023
  • FR
  • PDF (774.54 KB)
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Green investment and asset stranding under transition scenario uncertainty

We develop a real-options approach to evaluate energy assets and potential investment projects under transition scenario uncertainty. Dynamic scenario uncertainty is modelled by assuming that the economic agent acquires the information about the...

  • Published on 02/21/2023
  • FR
  • PDF (1.86 MB)
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Bank Debt, Mutual Fund Equity, and Swing Pricing in Liquidity Provision

Liquidity provision is often attributed to debt-issuing intermediaries like banks. We show that mutual funds issuing demandable equity also provide liquidity by insuring against idiosyncratic liquidity shocks. Quantitatively, the average bond fund...

  • Published on 01/12/2023
  • FR
  • PDF (873 KB)