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. …

physical and cognitive function? While many studies have explored the indirect links between climate and welfare (e … further evidence in support of a physiologically based causal mechanism. This more direct causal link between climate and … social welfare has important implications for both the economics of climate change and comparative development. …

In 2014 over $60 billion was mobilized to help developing nations mitigate climate change, an amount equivalent to the …

variability in the weather and the increase in the number of extreme weather disasters associated with climate change. The … efficacy of disaster risk management and climate change adaptation policies at the sub-national level. …

This paper analyses the cost implications for climate policy in developed countries if developing countries are …' participation is uncertain and again we compute the costs of climate policy in developed and developing countries. We find that … delayed participation of NA1 countries has a negative impact on climate policy costs. Economic inefficiencies can be as large …

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 …

emission reductions but cooperates on the development of new, climate friendly technologies that reduce the costs of abatement …

and in actual policymaking, is to link negotiations on climate change control with decisions concerning international R … strategy, and on the other hand the incentives for the US to join a coalition which cooperates both on climate change control …

. However, climate change and the transition to a lower-carbon economy now challenges this relationship. We document this by … proposing a novel news media-based measure of climate change transition risk and show that when such risk is high, major …