The Bundesbank’s economists have examined how climate action affects the value of stock corporations. The outcome under the assumptions made was that a large proportion of the corporations under review did not suffer major equity price losses as a consequence of their direct greenhouse gas emissions, even for a sharp rise in carbon prices. By contrast, shares in companies whose greenhouse gas emissions cause them high costs in relation to their dividends suffer large losses. Stock corporations whose business centres around fossil energy sources are hardest hit.

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Die Erwartungen der Umfrageteilnehmer zum Wachstum des realen BIP blieben weitgehend unverändert, wobei es für 2022 zu einer Abwärts- und für 2023 zu einer Aufwärtskorrektur kam.