Climate Financial Risks: Assessing Convergence, Exploring Diversity
Julia Anna Bingler,
Chiara Colesanti Senni and
Pierre Monnin | 9 December 2020
Discussion Notes,
Monetary | Tags:
Climate Risk,
Financial Supervision,
Monetary Policy Operations,
Risk Metrics Climate risks are now fully recognized as financial risks by asset managers, investors, central banks, and financial supervisors. As a result, the integration of climate risk metrics into risk management processes is moving up agendas worldwide. In that context, a rapidly growing number of market
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Central Banks Must Upgrade Their Risk Management
Pierre Monnin | 23 November 2020
Blog,
Monetary | Tags:
Central Banks,
Climate Change,
Climate Risk The COVID-19 crisis is a stark reminder of how sharply asset values can shift. Amid a crashing demand for oil and gas, giant energy companies like BP, Chevron and Shell massively wrote down the value of their assets. And those that did not, like Exxon,
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Central Bank Market Neutrality is a Myth
Chiara Colesanti Senni and
Pierre Monnin | 16 October 2020
Blog,
Monetary | Tags:
Asset Purchases,
Central Banks,
Climate Change,
Foreign Exchange Reserves,
Market Neutrality Christine Lagarde, the President of the European Central Bank (ECB), this week raised the critical question whether, in view of market failures, market neutrality should remain the guiding principle driving central banks’ policy portfolio management. Her spotlight on market neutrality underscores growing and overdue scrutiny
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The Transition to a Sustainable Post-COVID Economy Requires an Urgent Shift in Central Bank Risk Management
Pierre Monnin | 10 July 2020
Blog,
Monetary | Tags:
Central Banks,
Climate Risk,
Covid-19,
Financial Regulation,
Monetary Policy Operations,
Precautionary principle The COVID-19 crisis is profoundly and durably transforming our economies. So will the transition to a low-carbon economy, which is necessary to contain the environmental crisis ahead of us. Shifting our economic system from its current state to a sustainable post-COVID version entails large and
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The ECB Response to COVID-19
Pierre Monnin | 27 March 2020
Blog,
Monetary | Tags:
Asset Purchases,
Covid-19,
European Central Bank,
Helicopter Money,
Targeted Refinancing Lines Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 crisis, the European Central Bank (ECB) committed to inject an additional 870 billion euro – about 7% of the euro area’s GDP – into financial markets to address the significant challenge the pandemic poses to the economy. Through its
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