Abstract
This paper employs a large international sample of 167,923 firm-year observations across 43 countries spanning 2001–2016 and finds that both annual and long-run climate risks have significantly positive impacts on corporate risk-taking, which is regarded as value-enhancing. Compared to long-run climate risk, annual climate risk plays a more dominant role. Moreover, we find high individualism and low uncertainty avoidance contribute to the positive effect of climate risk on corporate risk-taking. Compared to larger firms, smaller firms are more motivated to take on more risks when exposed to climate risks. Insurance provides protection for companies to take more risks. Also, country-level corporate governance is found to enhance the positive impacts of climate risks on corporate risk-taking. In addition, after taking endogeneity issues into account and conducting robustness tests, our primary conclusions remain.
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