I propose a new conceptual framework to disentangle the impacts of weather and climate on economic activity and growth …: A stochastic frontier model with climate in the production frontier and weather shocks as a source of inefficiency. I … variability. The climate effect is larger that the weather effect. …

We estimate the short-run effects of severe weather shocks on local economic activity and assess cross …-border spillovers operating through economic linkages between U.S. states. We measure weather shocks using a detailed county … weather shocks hitting individual regions. We also show that (i) taking into account economic interconnections between states …

The effects of extreme weather events, such as heat waves and droughts are taken into account in both global and … extreme weather events, in particular, droughts and high temperatures, for the German power sector. Furthermore, we consider … droughts. We stress that increasing frequencies of such extreme weather events will aggravate the observed problem, especially …

We analyzed the effects of 10,748 weather events on attention to climate change between December 2011 and November 2014 … increases in attention to climate change, beyond the purely descriptive information provided by the weather forecasts directly … about climate change in the local area around the time of each event. Coastal floods, droughts, wildfires, strong wind, hail …

inequality measures for 153 countries spanning a long time period. The climate shock is identified as the disturbance that … explains the bulk of the climate fluctuations in the long run. Our findings suggest that an adverse climate shock is associated …The role of climate change on economic performance and output has been studied extensively in the empirical literature …

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 …

Climate change is particularly important issue in Madagascar, a poor island nation that is frequently affected by … droughts, floods and cyclones. We examine the impact of weather events on schooling and work among a cohort of teens and young … savings, and access to credit and insurance which limits their ability to cope with negative weather shocks. We observe both …