There is limited public discourse and understanding about the history and science of weather and climate intervention … climate intervention with the aim of answering the question: Why aren’t more economists interested in evaluating weather and …, though scientists have researched, tested and implemented numerous methods of weather modification for six decades. Also …

I propose a new conceptual framework to disentangle the impacts of weather and climate on economic activity and growth …: A stochastic frontier model with climate in the production frontier and weather shocks as a source of inefficiency. I … variability. The climate effect is larger that the weather effect …

We provide ex-post empirical analysis of the effects of climate policies on carbon dioxide emissions at the aggregate … national level. Our results are based on a comprehensive database of 121 countries. As climate policies we examine carbon taxes … and emissions trading systems (ETS), as well as the overall stringency of climate policies. We use dynamic panel …

optimal carbon tax in a stochastic dynamic programming implementation of an integrated assessment model of climate change. We … derive a general analytic formula for the “risk premium” governing the resulting climate policy. The formula generalizes …

Climate change not only impacts production and market consumption, but also the relative scarcity of non-market goods … magnitude, and their implications for climate policy in Nordhaus' prominent DICE model, thereby addressing one of its key …

This paper studies whether private adaptation to flood risk is economically efficient. We estimate the return to … the universe of houses and flood damages in high-risk flood zones in the Atlantic and Gulf Coast United States. We find … homeowners may under-invest in flood protection because the benefits do not accrue over their average tenure. We identify …

other climate policies, on carbon dioxide emissions at the aggregate national level. The paper uses cross-country dynamic …

We provide ex-post empirical analysis of the effects of climate policies on carbon dioxide emissions at the aggregate … national level. Our results are based on a comprehensive database of 121 countries. As climate policies we examine carbon taxes … and emissions trading systems (ETS), as well as the overall stringency of climate policies. We use dynamic panel …