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A growing literature estimates the macroeconomic effect of weather using variations in annual country-level averages of … frequency or higher spatial resolution. To address this issue, we rely on global daily weather measurements with a 30-km spatial … resolution from 1979 to 2019 and construct 164 weather variables and their lags. We select a parsimonious subset of relevant …
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Global temperatures have increased at an unprecedented pace in the past 40 years. This paper finds that increases in temperature have uneven macroeconomic effects, with adverse consequences concentrated in countries with hot climates, such as most low-income countries. In these countries, a rise...
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research question: Does greater exchange rate flexibility help an economy’s adjustment to weather shocks? To address this … question, the impact of weather shocks on real per capita GDP growth is quantified under the two alternative exchange rate … regimes. We find that although weather shocks are generally detrimental to per capita income growth, the impact is less severe …
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This paper studies the transmission of crime shocks to the economy in a sample of 32 Mexican states over the period … associated with the sign and magnitude of the responses of economic variables to crime shocks …
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We measure the impact of frequent exogeneous shocks on small ECCU economies, including changes to global economic activity, tourism flows, oil prices, passport sales, FDI, and natural disasters. Using Canonical-Correlation Analysis (CCA) and dynamic panel regression analysis we find significant...
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general equilibrium model reveal that good policies can help countries cope with negative weather shocks to some extent … global warming-could limit the adverse macroeconomic consequences of weather shocks in a long-lasting way …
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Weather-related natural disasters and climate change pose interrelated macro-fiscal challenges. Using panel … the dynamic adjustment path of growth and key fiscal variables after severe weather-related disasters. It does not only …
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Spillovers from South Africa into the other members of the Souther Africa Customs Union (known as the BLNS for Botstwana, Lesotho, Namibia, and Swaziland) are substantial reflecting sizeable real and financial interlinkages. However, shocks to real GDP growth in South Africa do not seem to...
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Economic volatility remains a fact of life in Sub Saharan Africa (SSA). Household-level shocks create large consumption fluctuations, raising the incidence of poverty. Drawing on micro-level data from South Africa and Tanzania, we examine the vulnerability to shocks across household types (e.g....
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Using manufacturing and services firm-level data for 30 sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries, this paper shows that taxation is not a significant driver for the location of foreign firms in SSA, while other investment climate factors, such as infrastructure, human capital, and insitutions, are....
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