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We study how background health risk affects financial risk-taking. We elicit financial risk-taking behavior of a representative sample of more than 5,000 Germans in five panel waves during the COVID-19 pandemic. Exploiting variation in local infections across time and space, we find that an...
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We explore the design of climate stress tests to assess and manage macro-prudential risks from climate change in the … financial sector. We review the climate stress scenarios currently employed by regulators, highlighting the need to (i) consider … many transition risks as dynamic policy choices; (ii) better understand and incorporate feedback loops between climate …
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to carbon risk when market-wide concern about climate change risk is elevated. Finally, lenders expect that adjustments …
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This paper studies whether private adaptation to flood risk is economically efficient. We estimate the return to elevating houses, one of the most significant private defensive investments against flooding, using two decades of microdata on the universe of houses and flood damages in high-risk...
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agriculture is likely to be smooth …
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There is limited public discourse and understanding about the history and science of weather and climate intervention …, climate-related geoengineering is steadily gaining support as a means of combatting rising global temperatures. With climate … climate intervention with the aim of answering the question: Why aren’t more economists interested in evaluating weather and …
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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 …
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We conduct a survey and incentivized lab-in-the-field experimental tasks in Tirana, Albania. While the original purpose of our study was to examine whether and how deep parameters such as time and risk preferences affect the intention to migrate, our study was transformed into a natural...
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We propose a heuristic switching model of an asset market where the agents' choice of heuristic is consistent with their individual risk aversion. They choose between a fundamentalist and a trend-following rule to form expectations about the price of a risky asset. Given their risk aversion,...
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We use a novel method to elicit and measure higher order risk preferences (prudence and temperance) in an experiment with 658 adolescents. In line with theoretical predictions, we find that higher order risk preferences particularly prudence are strongly related to adolescents' field behavior,...
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