Abstract
ABSTRACT This study examines how firms’ responses to climate risk affect the financial leverage through an impact on the asset beta. Considering the 2015 Paris Agreement about greenhouse gas reduction as a natural experiment on Japanese manufacturing firms, we observe that the asset beta increased and financial leverage decreased for high emission firms after the agreement was signed. Further, a significant decline was observed for the leverage of high emission firms experiencing a sharp rise in the asset beta.
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