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title: Interest Rates & Corporate Investment
url: https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/ssrn/4934071/
site: ML-Quant (https://www.ml-quant.com)
updated: 2026-09-26
license: Summaries CC BY 4.0; links go to the original sources
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identifier: SSRN 4934071
source_url: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4934071
featured: 2024-08-28
citations: unknown
topic: Macro-Finance & Rates
---


# Interest Rates & Corporate Investment

The research links interest rates and climate change uncertainty, stating that climate uncertainty reduces corporate investment, but this effect decreases as climate change awareness increases.

- Source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4934071
- Identifier: SSRN 4934071
- Released: 2024-08-15
- First featured: Quant Letter No. 63 (2024-08-28): https://www.ml-quant.com/issues/2024-08-28/
- Citations (Semantic Scholar): not tracked
- Published in: not yet
- Topic: Macro-Finance & Rates

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