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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 … fiscal policy efforts such as ad hoc fiscal rebalancing and reprioritization. The findings help better customize disaster …
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targets with expected disaster shocks. This paper contributes to the literature and policy dialogue by theoretically analyzing …
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find large and persistent effects of weather shocks that significantly impact the income convergence path of disaster …Using a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model, we study the channels through which natural disaster shocks … affect macroeconomic outcomes and welfare in disaster-prone countries. We solve the model using Taylor projection, a solution …
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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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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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Conventional VAR and non-VAR methods of identifying the effects of monetary policy shocks on the economy have found a negative output response to monetary tightening using U.S. data over the 1960s-1990s. However, we show that these methods fail to find this contractionary effect when the sample...
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Resilience to climate change and natural disasters hinges on two fundamental elements: financial protection -insurance and self-insurance- and structural protection -investment in adaptation. Using a dynamic general equilibrium model calibrated to the St. Lucia's economy, this paper shows that...
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