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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 …
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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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mitigation and adaptation, carbon and solar geoengineering span the universe of possible climate policies. Their wildly different …
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climate change. This is despite substantial adaptation having taken place in general equilibrium through R&D and agricultural …
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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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adaptation. Here, we provide a framework for analyzing the multiple interlinkages between climate change and human capital and … adaptation, on human capital across the life cycle. The framework presents two channels through which human capital is affected … of the life cycle. For mitigation and adaptation, we find that while these are overall clearly beneficial, they are also …
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We propose a theory of climate-policy motivated foreign intervention to study different forms of international climate governance in the presence of power imbalance. Foreign countries have at least three options to intervene in another country's domestic climate policy: i.) Agreements with...
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The high and increasing cost of natural disasters around the world motivates a growing body of literature on the role of natural disaster insurance in adapting to climate change. This chapter reviews current challenges in both public and private natural disaster insurance markets in the United...
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We show that economies may exhibit a strong endogenous macroeconomic adaptation response to climate change. If climate …
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This study investigates whether exchange rate flexibility aids real exchange rate adjustment based on intra-period data on dual exchange rates from developing countries. Specifically, it analyzes whether the flexible parallel market rate produces faster or slower real exchange rate adjustment...
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