We examine how the adverse impacts of weather shocks are distributed through the trade network. Exploiting a rich …, theoretically derived, fixed effects structure, we find significant negative short-run effects of high temperature on exports. A … month with an average temperature above 30 °C implies export losses of around three percent. These effects are increasing in …

Research has consistently shown that women's involvement in household decision making positively affects household … outcomes such as nutrition and education of children. Is financial literacy a determinant for women to participate in intra-household … decision making? Using data on savings groups in Rwanda, we examine this relationship and show that women with higher financial …

This review summarizes the empirical literature on the effects of natural disasters and weather variations on … temperature seem to have a detrimental effect on export values (less on imports), mainly for manufactured and agricultural … products. Given climate change, this is an important finding for projecting long-term developments of trade volumes. Imports …

firms and climate scenario projections from four large-scale integrated assessment models. Assuming a revision of market …

avoidance technologies it is important to understand the market valuation of local forest carbon sinks for climate change …-benefits of climate protection activities. In addition, we add geo-data to our experimental data to analyze the impact of spatial …

Since 2002 the German government seeks to stimulate private retirement savings by means of special allowances and tax …. -- Household saving ; Saving incentives ; Retirement ; Riester scheme ; Coarsened exact matching …

We study the role of household saving behaviour, of individual motives for saving and that of perceived liquidity … constraints in 15 Euro Area countries. The empirical analysis is based on the Household Finance and Consumption Survey, a new … harmonized data set collecting detailed information on wealth holdings, consumption and income at the household level. Since the …

Household Finances collected in 2021, we show that about 62% of German households answer the Big Three financial literacy …

future events on households’ financial situation. Households are asked to assess specific risks for their own household … (treatment) or for a household with similar characteristics (control). On average, households assign a lower probability to … shocks that negatively affect personal finances if asked for their own household compared to a similar household. We do not …

The green paradox conveys the idea that climate policies may have unintended side effects when taking into account the …