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adaptation by directly providing public goods to manage disaster risks or by facilitating private agents' adaptation responses … suffer less and recover faster from climate extremes suggests adaptation, knowledge gaps remain, and little is known about … the efficiency of specific adaptation actions. I review various "no or low" regrets adaptation options which are …
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characterize the food risk level for each property. First, we compare trends in housing values and sales activity among properties … within the same city. Despite the heightened food risk in the last two decades, we did not find evidence of divergent trends …, suggesting that food insurance may have cushioned the effects of the increase in food risk. Secondly, we analyze the effects of …
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We investigate financial experts' beliefs about climate risk pricing and analyze how those beliefs influence stock …
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adaptation in the United States. The analysis produces several new facts. First, the reductions in the impact of extreme heat on … mortality risk previously documented up to 2004 have continued up to 2019, consistent with continued investments in health … and consumption related to high temperatures, a commonly-used proxy for measuring the consumption of adaptation services …
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-2017, we estimate the price effects of three flood risk signals: 1) the Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act, which …
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on the universe of federal disaster declarations between 1989 and 2014, we document that congress members from districts … the disaster. The response to hurricanes does not seem to be driven by logrolling behavior or lobbysts' pressure. The …
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Chad, which used to be the 11th-largest lake in the world. This African lake the size of El Salvador, Israel, or … shrinking, implying limited adaptation. Additionally, the negative water supply effects on fishing, farming, and herding … and estimate aggregate welfare losses taking into account adaptation shows overall losses of about 6%. The model also …
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Existing climate-economy models use aggregate damage functions to model the effects of climate change. This approach assumes climate change has equal impacts on the productivity of firms that produce consumption and investment goods or services. We show the split between damage to consumption...
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Climate change is sometimes viewed as the most serious problem facing modern society. The science behind anthropogenic global warming has been understood for more than half a century. Yet relatively few economists work on topics related to climate change. What explains this (apparent) lack of...
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expanding, resource-intensive mitigation effort. If the rate of technical progress in mitigation is too low, it becomes the …
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