Showing 1 - 10 of 1,589
average treatment effects and strong spatial spillovers, particularly for weather shocks. Moreover, substantial heterogeneity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011872945
Extreme weather events have significant adverse costs for individuals, firms, communities, regional, and national … emissions had changed the occurrence of specific extreme weather events, allows us to quantify the climate …-change-induced component of these costs. We use EEA to aggregate the global economic damage from extreme weather events that is attributable to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013426527
long-run disaster impacts in the World Bank's macroeconomic and fiscal model and illustrates the importance of fiscal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015134075
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 … in both rich and poor countries; positively in cold countries and negatively in hot ones. Weather anomalies reduce …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012486667
flooding on federal disaster aid disbursement in Harris County, Texas following Hurricane Harvey. Our approach uses flood … tract’s flood damages – both attributed and not attributed to climate change – and federal disaster aid. We find that both …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015084960
Extreme weather induced migration is a growing concern for low and middle income countries due to the increased … variability in the weather and the increase in the number of extreme weather disasters associated with climate change. The … objective of this paper is to examine the inter-linkages between weather, disasters, and migration, in India. To examine the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014467352
This paper examines the effects of climate policies and energy shocks on mean and volatility spillovers between green and brown stock price indices in five countries (Canada, India, Japan, the UK and the US). More specifically, bivariate GARCH-BEKK models including dummy variables controlling...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015333280
The ongoing process of climate change goes along with a higher frequency and/or severity of droughts. While the short-term growth consequences of droughts are comparatively well examined, little research has yet been devoted to the question whether and how droughts affect medium and long-term...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011384506
This article reviews a rapidly growing literature on how climatic risks and events affect public finances around the world. This literature includes empirical evaluations of how past climatic events have affected fiscal outcomes, empirical and model-based assessments of how climatic risks affect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015098614
; natural disaster relief expenditure ; narrative approach ; structural vector-autoregressive model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009630124