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The role of climate change on economic performance and output has been studied extensively in the empirical literature, however, its distributional effects have received little attention. This paper attempts to fill this gap by investigating whether climate shocks affect income inequality in a...
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We study the impact of climate volatility on economic growth exploiting data on 133 countries between 1960 and 2005. We show that the conditional (ex ante) volatility of annual temperatures increased steadily over time, rendering climate conditions less predictable across countries, with...
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A surprisingly large number of countries have been able to finance a significant fraction of domestic investment using … investment was financed via private capital inflows. That said, foreign savings are not a good substitute for domestic savings … abruptly with compression of the current account, real exchange rate depreciation, and a sharp slowdown in investment. Summing …
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