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Insurance Retreat in Residential Properties from Future Sea Level Rise in Aotearoa New Zealand
Storey, Belinda; Zammit, Christian; Owen, Sally; Noy, Ilan - 2022
How will the increased frequency of coastal inundation events induced by sea level rise impact residential insurance premiums, and when would insurance contracts be withdrawn? We model the contribution of localised sea level rise to the increased frequency of coastal inundation events. Examining...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014243101
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Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction in Sub-Saharan Africa
Moser, Gary G. - 2001
This study confirms a strong and robust relationship between economic growth and poverty reduction in sub … institutional freedom, and island economies are important control variables that help explain the variability of poverty across …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400682
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Corporate vulnerabilities in Vietnam and implications of COVID-19
Kroeger, Thilo; Anh Thi Ngoc Nguyen; Zhang, Yuanyan; … - 2020
The paper uses firm-level data to assess the financial health of the Vietnamese non-financial corporate sector on the eve of pandemic. Our analysis finds that smaller domestic firms were particularly vulnerable even by regional comparison. A sensitivity analysis suggests that the COVID-19 shock...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012392645
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Inflation dynamics and monetary policy transmission in Vietnam and emerging Asia
Bhattacharya, Rina - 2013
This paper provides an overview of inflation developments in Vietnam in the years following the doi moi reforms, and … uses empirical analysis to answer two key questions: (i) what are the key drivers of inflation in Vietnam, and what role … does monetary policy play? and (ii) why has inflation in Vietnam been persistently higher than in most other emerging …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012667557
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FDI Inflows and Domestic Firms : Adjustments to New Export Opportunities
McCaig, Brian; Pavcnik, Nina; Wong, Woan Foong - 2023
domestic firms in a low-income host country. The US-Vietnam Bilateral Trade Agreement reduced US import tariffs on exports from … Vietnam. Tariff reductions led to entry of foreign and private firms and to employment expansion in formal manufacturing, with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014264160
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Macroeconomic gains from reforming the agri-food sector : the case of France
Batini, Nicoletta - 2019
France is the top agricultural producer in the European Union (EU), and agriculture plays a prominent role in the country's foreign trade and intermediate exchanges. Reflecting production volumes and methods, the sector, however, also generates significant negative environmental and public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012009390
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Macroeconomic outcomes in disaster-prone countries
Cantelmo, Alessandro; Melina, Giovanni; Papageorgiou, Chris - 2019
Using a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model, we study the channels through which natural disaster shocks affect macroeconomic outcomes and welfare in disaster-prone countries. We solve the model using Taylor projection, a solution method that is shown to deal effectively with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012112128
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Macroeconomic and financial policies for climate change mitigation : a review of the literature
Krogstrup, Signe; Oman, William - 2019
Climate change is one of the greatest challenges of this century. Mitigation requires a large-scale transition to a low-carbon economy. This paper provides an overview of the rapidly growing literature on the role of macroeconomic and financial policy tools in enabling this transition. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012103638
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Modeling the U.S. climate agenda : macro-climate trade-offs and considerations
Barrett, Philip; Bergant, Katharina; Chateau, Jean; … - 2021
The run up to the 26th Climate Change Conference has brought tackling climate change to the fore of global policy making. In this context, the U.S. administration has recently unveiled new climate targets. This paper elaborates on the administration's plans and uses two models developed at the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012795050
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Still not getting energy prices right : a global and country update of fossil fuel subsidies
Parry, Ian W. H.; Black, Simon; Vernon, Nate - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012796730