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sectors via the destruction of capital stocks and jumps in risk premia. These disruptions often entail negative feedback … explore this causal nexus and the effects of rare large disasters resulting in capital losses and rising risk premia. Our …
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economies’ external financing needs-at-risk due to these shocks, and (iii) quantifies the spillovers to the global economy using …
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This paper reviews the literature on the macroeconomic impact of natural disasters and presents the IMF's role in assisting countries coping with natural catastrophes. Focusing on seven country cases, the paper describes the emergency financing, policy support, and technical assistance provided...
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What do climate change, global financial crises, pandemics, and fragility and conflict have in common? They are all examples of global risks that can cross geographical and generational boundaries and whose mismanagement can reverse gains in development and jeopardize the well-being of...
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Bank stress tests of climate change risks are relatively new, but are rapidly proliferating. The IMF and World Bank … building a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model linked to global climate and a catastrophe risk model specifically for … drawing strong conclusions about the relevance of climate risk, as the model focused only on typhoons’ physical capital …
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Climate change poses an unprecedented challenge to the world economy and the global financial system. This paper sets … climate mitigation, and the direction of the risk is identified through manual labels. The documented risk premium indicates …
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economic consequences of climate change, research on the link between climate change and sovereign default risk is nonexistent …
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The Integrated Assessment Model (IAM) has extensively treated the adverse effects of climatechange and the appropriate mitigation policy. We extend such a model to include optimalpolicies for mitigation, adaptation and infrastructure investment studying the dynamics of thetransition to a low...
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world real GDP per capita by more than 7 percent by 2100. On the other hand, abiding by the Paris Agreement, thereby …
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A big challenge for the economic development of small island countries is dealing with external shocks. The Pacific Islands are vulnerable to natural disasters, climate change, commodity price changes, and uncertain donor grants. The question that arises is how should small developing countries...
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