Conference Agenda

Overview and details of the sessions of this conference. Please select a date or location to show only sessions at that day or location. Please select a single session for detailed view (with abstracts and downloads if available).

Please note that all times are shown in the time zone of the conference. The current conference time is: 9th May 2025, 10:08:40am EDT

 
 
Session Overview
Session
Track T2-3: Climate Finance
Time:
Tuesday, 20/May/2025:
10:30am - 11:15am

Session Chair: Lorenzo Garlappi, UBC
Discussant: Sumudu W Watugala, Indiana University
Location: Gateway North 103


Show help for 'Increase or decrease the abstract text size'
Presentations

A Tale of Commodities and Climate-driven Disasters

Filippo Pellegrino

Imperial College London

This paper examines the impact of climate-driven disasters on commodity prices. Using extensive archival sources including census data and declassified CIA intelligence reports, I develop a global geospatial dataset to identify the locations of key commodity-producing sites at subnational level since the 1970s. By linking these regions to climate disaster events, I find that, over time, production has become increasingly concentrated in high-risk areas. Leveraging this dataset, I analyze how commodity futures respond to climate-driven shocks and uncover significant cross-sectional differences. Specifically, a long-only portfolio of vulnerable commodities yields a significant monthly alpha of 0.90%, whereas that of resilient commodities, albeit still significant, is negative at –0.43%, reflecting a premium paid for protection against climate shocks. Furthermore, I find that vulnerable commodities experience slower recoveries from past shocks.

Pellegrino-A Tale of Commodities and Climate-driven Disasters-405.pdf


 
Contact and Legal Notice · Contact Address:
Privacy Statement · Conference: SFS Cavalcade NA 2025
Conference Software: ConfTool Pro 2.6.153
© 2001–2025 by Dr. H. Weinreich, Hamburg, Germany