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Can a growing world be fed when the climate is changing?
Dietz, Simon; Lanz, Bruno - 2019 - This version: November 2019
climate change. This is despite substantial adaptation having taken place in general equilibrium through R&D and agricultural …
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Climate change, rice crops and violence : evidence from Indonesia
Caruso, Raul; Petrarca, Ilaria; Ricciuti, Roberto - 2014
This paper adopts an instrumental variable approach to uncover the impact of variations in minimum temperature on emergence and severity of actual violence through the effect on food availability, captured by rice crops per capita. The link between increase in minimum temperature and rice crops...
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Does climate change make foodgrain yields more unpredictable : evidence from India
Verma, Saumya; Gupta, Shreekant; Sen, Partha - 2020
How would climate change affect India’s agriculture which accounts for sixty percent of employment? We study the impact of climate change on the level and variability of yields of rice (India’s major food crop) and two key millet crops (sorghum and pearl millet), using an all India district...
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Effects of precipitation on food consumer price inflation
Moessner, Richhild - 2022
We study how precipitation has affected food consumer price inflation (CPI), using dynamic panel estimation of food CPI Phillips curves across countries for 34 OECD member and candidate economies from 1985 to 2010 augmented with climate variables. We allow for nonlinear effects of precipitation...
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Cities and the sea level
Lin, Yatang; McDermott, Thomas K. J.; Michaels, Guy - 2021
Construction on low elevation coastal zones is risky for both residents and taxpayers who bail them out, especially when sea levels are rising. We study this construction using spatially disaggregated data on the US Atlantic and Gulf coasts. We document nine stylized facts, including a sizeable...
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Who cares? : future sea-level-rise and house prices
Filippova, Olga; Nguyen, Cuong; Noy, Ilan; Rehm, Michael - 2019
Globally, the single-most observable, predictable, and certain impact of climate change is sea level rise. Using a case study from the Kapiti Coast District in New Zealand, we pose a simple question: Do people factor in the warnings provided by scientists and governments about the risk of...
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Climate change and psychological adaptation : a behavioral environmental economics approach
Aronsson, Thomas; Schöb, Ronnie - 2014
adaptation to changing life circumstances. People may adapt or become more sensitive, to different degrees, to a deteriorated … the consequences for optimal climate policies and argues from a normative point of view that psychological adaptation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010354841
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Climate change and economic activity : evidence from U.S. states
Mohaddes, Kamiar; Ng, Ryan N. C.; Pesaran, M. Hashem; … - 2022
We investigate the long-term macroeconomic effects of climate change across 48 U.S. states over the period 1963.2016 using a novel econometric strategy which links deviations of temperature and precipitation (weather) from their long-term moving-average historical norms (climate) to various...
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An economic anatomy of optimal climate policy
Moreno Cruz, Juan; Wagner, Gernot; Keith, David W. - 2018
mitigation and adaptation, carbon and solar geoengineering span the universe of possible climate policies. Their wildly different …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011853285
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The intricacy of adapting to climate change : flood protection as a local public goods game
Bondarev, Anton; Hintermann, Beat; Krysiak, Frank C.; … - 2017
We study adaptation to climate change in a federalist setting. To protect themselves against an increase in flood risk …, regional governments choose among adaptation measures that vary with respect to their costs, the level of protection they offer … response to specific proposals. If it has to deduce the vulnerability of regions by their actions, the resulting adaptation …
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