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An Apocalypse Foretold : Climate Shocks and Sovereign Defaults
Cevik, Serhan; Jalles, João Tovar - 2021
Climate change poses an existential threat to the global economy. While there is a growing body of literature on the economic consequences of climate change, research on the link between climate change and sovereign default risk is nonexistent. We aim to fill this gap in the literature by...
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This Changes Everything : Climate Shocks and Sovereign Bonds
Cevik, Serhan - 2020
Climate change is already a systemic risk to the global economy. While there is a large body of literature documenting potential economic consequences, there is scarce research on the link between climate change and sovereign risk. This paper therefore investigates the impact of climate change...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012828232
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Rogue Waves : Climate Change and Firm Performance
Cevik, Serhan; Miryugin, Fedor - 2022
Climate change is an existential threat to the global economy and financial markets. There is a large body of literature documenting potential macroeconomic consequences of climate change, but firm-level empirical research on how climate change affects the performance of firms remains scarce....
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Crop Selection and International Differences in Aggregate Agricultural Productivity
Alvarez, Jorge - 2019
A large share of cross-country differences in productivity is explained by differences in agricultural productivity. Using a combination of sub-national agricultural statistics and geospatial datasets on crop-specific potential yields, we study the main drivers of this variation from a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012863970
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Illuminating Economic Growth
Hu, Yingyao - 2019
This paper seeks to illuminate the uncertainty in official GDP per capita measuresusing auxiliary data. Using satellite-recorded nighttime lights as an additional measurementof true GDP per capita, we provide a statistical framework, in which the error inofficial GDP per capita may depend on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012869295
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Who Will Bear the Brunt of Lockdown Policies? Evidence from Tele-Workability Measures Across Countries
Brussevich, Mariya - 2020
Lockdowns imposed around the world to contain the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic arehaving a differential impact on economic activity and jobs. This paper presents a new indexof the feasibility to work from home to investigate what types of jobs are most at risk. Weestimate that over 97.3...
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Multiple Dimensions of Human Development Index and Public Social Spending for Sustainable Development
Paliova, Iana - 2019
well-being. The focus of analysis is on the indicators measuring the three dimensions of Human Development Index (HDI …
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Who Doesn't Want to Be Vaccinated? Determinants of Vaccine Hesitancy During COVID-19
Dabla-Norris, Era; Khan, Hibah; Lima, Frederico; … - 2022
Quick vaccine rollouts are crucial for a strong economic recovery, but vaccine hesitancy could prolong the pandemic and the need for social distancing and lockdowns. We use individual-level data from nationally representative surveys developed by YouGov and Imperial College London to empirically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013305609
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Impact of COVID-19 on Attitudes to Climate Change and Support for Climate Policies
Mohommad, Adil; Pugacheva, Evgenia - 2022
This paper inquires into how individual attitudes to climate issues and support for climate policies have evolved in the context of the pandemic. Using data from a unique survey of 14,500 individuals across 16 major economies, this study shows that the experience of the COVID-19 pandemic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013294995
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Policy Space Index : Short-Term Response to a Catastrophic Event
Ferrer, José; Kireyev, Alexei - 2022
paper proposes a policy space index. The index combines a quantitative, albeit relatively limited and narrow, fiscal space … markets, debt distress level, and the exchange rate regime. The final policy space index is derived as a composite of the … three nominal policy space indicators, each adjusted for five institutional features. This index is different from the …
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