# Firm‐Level Climate Change Exposure

“Firm‐Level Climate Change Exposure” (2023), by Zacharias Sautner et al. Economics research paper. Original abstract below, unchanged. A free PDF is available.

- Authors: Zacharias Sautner, Laurence van Lent, Grigory Vilkov, RUISHEN ZHANG
- Published: February 28, 2023
- Field: Economics
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/jofi.13219
- Free PDF: https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/288045/1/JOFI_JOFI13219.pdf

## Abstract

We develop a method that identifies the attention paid by earnings call participants to firms' climate change exposures. The method adapts a machine learning keyword discovery algorithm and captures exposures related to opportunity, physical, and regulatory shocks associated with climate change. The measures are available for more than 10,000 firms from 34 countries between 2002 and 2020. We show that the measures are useful in predicting important real outcomes related to the net‐zero transition, in particular, job creation in disruptive green technologies and green patenting, and that they contain information that is priced in options and equity markets.

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