02497cas a2200313 a 4500 AALejournalIMF022914 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 20.00 USD 9798400208171 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Cevik, Serhan. Rogue Waves : Climate Change and Firm Performance / Serhan Cevik, Fedor Miryugin. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2022. 1 online resource (30 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 global economy and financial markets. There is a large body of literature documenting potential macroeconomic consequences of climate change, but firm-level empirical research on how climate change affects the performance of firms remains scarce. This paper aims to close this gap by empirically investigating the impact of climate change vulnerability on corporate performance using a large panel dataset of more than 3.3 million nonfinancial firms from 24 developing countries over the period 1997-2019. We find that nonfinancial firms operating in countries with greater vulnerability to climate change tend to experience difficulty in access to debt financing even at higher interest rates, while being less productive and profitable relative to firms in countries with lower vulnerability to climate change. We confirm these findings with alternative measures of climate change vulnerability. Furthermore, partitioning the sample reveals that these effects are significantly greater for smaller firms, especially in high-risk sectors and countries and countries with weaker capacity to adapt to and mitigate the consequences of climate change. Mode of access: Internet Interest Rates imf Panel Data Models imf Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles imf Spatio-Temporal Models imf Survey Methods imf Miryugin, Fedor.. IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2022/102 Full text available on IMF https://elibrary.imf.org/openurl?genre=journal&issn=1018-5941&volume=2022&issue=102 IMF e-Library