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the effects of temperature on firm-level total factor productivity (TFP), factor inputs, and output. We detect an inverted …
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This article reviews the literature on the economic impacts of disasters caused by extreme weather and climate events …
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High temperatures can have a negative effect on work-related activities. Labor productivity may go down because mental …
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This study measures productivity growth using the Metafrontier Malmquist-Luenberger productivity growth index (MML …-Luenberger (ML) productivity growth index. MML has two advantages compared with the ML index. The former is able to consider … index is employed to measure productivity growth and decompose its components in 14 Korean industrial sectors during the …
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This study proposes an alternative methodology for measuring environmentally sensitive productivity growth. The … combination, the conventional Malmquist-Luenberger productivity index is modified to give the alternative sequential … environmentally sensitive productivity index. This proposed index is employed in measuring productivity growth and its decomposed …
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While the financial inclusion would induce greater pollutant emissions through its impact of economic activity, the increased access to financial services may unleash investments in green technologies. This papier investigates whether the financial inclusion influences the dynamic of carbon...
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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 and investment productivity matters for the dynamic consequences of …
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We investigate the impact of rising temperatures on firm productivity using longitudinal firm-level balance-sheet data … from private sector firms in 14 European countries, combined with detailed weather data. Our findings, based on control … productivity declines markedly as temperatures rise, while capital productivity remains unaffected – indicating that TFP is …
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Differential access to health care is commonly cited as a source of heterogeneity in the health effects of environmental exposure, yet little causal evidence exists to support such claims. We test this hypothesis by utilizing exogenous variation in both access to health care and environmental...
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Climate change has stimulated growing interest in the influence of temperature on cognition, mood and decision making. This paper is the first investigation of the impact of temperature on the outcomes of criminal court cases. It is motivated by Heyes and Saberian (2019, AEJ: Applied Economics),...
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