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Type Journal Article
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Title Factor-mimicking portfolios for climate risk
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Gianluca De Nard
  • Robert F Engle
  • Bryan Kelly
Item Subtype Original Work
Refereed Yes
Status Published in final form
Language
  • English
Journal Title Financial Analysts Journal
Publisher Taylor & Francis
Geographical Reach international
ISSN 0015-198X
Volume 80
Number 3
Page Range 37 - 58
Date 2024
Abstract Text We propose and implement a procedure to optimally hedge climate change risk. First, we construct climate risk indices through textual analysis of newspapers. Second, we present a new approach to compute factor-mimicking portfolios to build climate risk hedge portfolios. The new mimicking portfolio approach is much more efficient than traditional sorting or maximum correlation approaches by taking into account new methodologies of estimating large-dimensional covariance matrices in short samples. In an extensive empirical out-of-sample performance test, we demonstrate the superior all-around performance delivering markedly higher and statistically significant alphas and betas with the climate risk indices.
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Digital Object Identifier 10.1080/0015198x.2024.2332164
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Additional Information Earlier published as ECON Working Paper No. 429