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Catastrophic risk, precautionary abatement, and adaptation transfers

Bosello, Francesco; De Cian, Enrica; Ferranna, Licia - 2014

This paper contributes to the normative literature on mitigation and adaptation by framing the question of their … absence of a coordinated global agreement on climate change and to realign the policy balance from adaptation toward more … mitigation. Our analysis also shows that adaptation transfers from and strategic unilateral commitments to adaptation in …

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Climate risk and rural India : research and policy issues

Kumar, K. S. Kavi; Pattanayak, Anubhab; Viswanathan, Brinda - 2019

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Carbon boards and transition risk: explicit and implicit exposure implications for total stock returns and dividend payouts

Mazzarano, Matteo; Guastella, Gianni; Pareglio, Stefano; … - 2021

The Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) has considered climate change as a risk issue since 2010. Several emission disclosure initiatives exist aimed at informing investors about the financial risks associated with a zero or low carbon transition. Stricter regulations, particularly in a few...

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Who benefits from free health insurance : evidence from Mexico

Conti, Gabriella; Ginja, Rita - 2023

We present a comprehensive evaluation of the health impacts of the introduction and expansion of a large non-contributory health insurance program in Mexico, the Seguro Popular (SP). SP provided access to health services without co-pays to individuals with no Social Security protection. We...

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Agricultural insurances based on meteorological indices: realizations, methods and research agenda

Leblois, Antoine; Quirion, Philippe - 2010

In many low-income countries, agriculture is mostly rainfed and yields highly depend on climatic factors. Furthermore, farmers have little access to traditional crop insurance, which suffers from high information asymmetry and transaction costs. Insurances based on meteorological indices could...

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Using degree days to value farmland

Massetti, Emanuele; Mendelsohn, Robert O.; … - 2015

Farmland values have traditionally been valued using seasonal temperature and precipitation. A new strand of the literature uses degree days over the growing season to predict farmland value. We find that degree days and daily temperature are interchangeable over the growing season. However, the...

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Estimating Ricardian models with panel data

Massetti, Emanuele; Mendelsohn, Robert O. - 2011

Many nonmarket valuation models, such as the Ricardian model, have been estimated using cross sectional methods with a single year of data. Although multiple years of data should increase the robustness of such methods, repeated cross sections suggest the results are not stable. We argue that...

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Development, climate change adaptation, and maladaptation : some econometric evidence

Bosello, Francesco; Dasgupta, Shouro - 2015

This paper examines the determinants of climate related disasters and attempts to estimate the presence of adaptive capacity in terms of per capita income and population density elasticities. We find evidence of adaptive capacity in a “weak” form both in terms of income and population...

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Weather and income : lessons from the main European regions

García-León, David - 2015

Some recent papers by Dell et al. (2009) and Dell et al. (2012) (DJO) relating weather and economic outcomes, have delivered meaningful messages with clear implications to the effects of a changing climate. In a nutshell, the authors claim that a 1°C increase in global average temperatures...

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Climate change, sea level rise, and coastal disasters : a review of modeling practices

Bosello, Francesco; De Cian, Enrica - 2013

The climate change impacts on sea level rise and coastal disasters, and the possible adaptation responses have been …

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