September 20, 2022
Climate policy and lending: are banks racing to the bottom?
We came across an interesting study of cross-border loans. Academics at Universitat Zurich found a correlation between domestic climate policies and banks’ lending activity to clients abroad. When the former is more stringent than that of a client’s country, the latter grows.
“Used in this way as a regulatory arbitrage ...
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