Research

Climate Risk and Contract Design: Evidence from Corporate Real Estate Leases

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Presentations: MIT Climate and Real Estate Symposium 2024, FIRS PhD Session 2024, Penn State 2023, Hitotsubashi 2023

Climate risk encompasses newly recognized bad states of the world that affect future asset values. When contracting parties increasingly anticipate this risk, do financial contract designs become more complete by specifying more future climate contingencies?



Difference-in-discontinuities Design

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Presentations: Econometric Society Asian Meeting 2024, IAAE 2024, Penn State 2024

The difference-in-discontinuities design is a hybrid approach that combines DID and RD. Although the literature states this design identifies ATE at the discontinuity, it actually identifies ATT at the discontinuity (very local!)