02205cas a2200253 a 4500 AALejournalIMF021410 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781513564548 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Cevik, Serhan. Feeling the Heat : Climate Shocks and Credit Ratings / Serhan Cevik, Joao Tovar Jalles. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2020. 1 online resource (23 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students Climate change is an existential threat to the world economy like no other, with complex, evolving and nonlinear dynamics that remain a source of great uncertainty. There is a bourgeoning literature on the economic impact of climate change, but research on how climate change affects sovereign risks is limited. Building on our previous research focusing on the impact of climate change on sovereign risks, this paper empirically investigates how climate change may affect sovereign credit ratings. By means of binary-choice models, we find that climate change vulnerability has adverse effects on sovereign credit ratings, after controlling for conventional macroeconomic determinants of credit worthiness. On the other hand, with regards to climate change resilience, we find that countries with greater climate change resilience benefit from higher (better) credit ratings. These findings, robust to a battery of sensitivity checks, also show that impact of climate change is disproportionately greater in developing countries due largely to weaker capacity to adapt to and mitigate the consequences of climate change. Mode of access: Internet Jalles, Joao Tovar. IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2020/286 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2020/286/001.2020.issue-286-en.xml IMF e-Library