Climate stress tests, bank lending, and the transition to the carbon-neutral economy *

We ask if bank supervisors' efforts to combat climate change affect banks' lending and their borrowers' transition to the carbon-neutral economy. Combining information from the French supervisory agency's climate pilot exercise with borrowers' emission data, we first show that banks that participate in the exercise increase lending to high-carbon emitters but simultaneously charge higher interest…

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