For all climatic regions, mortality due to cold exceeds mortality due to heat. We examine whether cold-related mortality in adulthood varies positively with unusually benign ambient temperature during gestation, using data on over 13,500 Swedes from the Uppsala Birth Cohort Study born in...

Climate change, the depletion of natural resources, globalization,migration: these mega-trends of global change are already deeply impactingour lives. Yet politicians have responded with short-sighted agendasin inverse proportion to the existential importance of the problems. A...

The study identifies how various customers of insurance can be affected, such as SMEs, the construction industry, farmingand forestry, as well as consumers. It then highlights best practice so that individuals and organisations can manage riskmore effectively.[...]

This article analyses commercial decision criteria for climate projects. The latter willnormally be executed by private players, for whom decision criteria developed from acommercial perspective are important. But such criteria are also important for the governmentin calculating the size of...

The holiday destination choice is analysed for tourists from 45 countries, representing all continents and all climates. Tourists are deterred by distance, political instability and poverty, and attracted to coasts. Tourists prefer countries with a sunny yet mild climate, shun climes that are...

This study uses the hedonic approach to measure the amenity value of climate in Germany. Unlike in earlier research separate hedonic wage and house price regressions are estimated for relatively small geographic areas and formal tests undertaken to determine whether the coefficients describing...

This study uses the hedonic approach to measure the amenity value of climate in Germany. Unlike in earlier research separate hedonic wage and house price regressions are estimated for relatively small geographic areas and formal tests undertaken to determine whether the coefficients describing...

Countries with the highest labor productivity overwhelmingly lie in the world's temperate climatic zones far away from the equator. The question we address is whether climatic conditions as measured by distance from the equator remain correlated with labor productivity after other variables are...

Empirical evidence suggests that regional disparities in incomes are often very high, that these disparities do not necessarily disappear as economies grow and that these disparities are itself an important driver of growth. We use a novel approach based on multilevel modeling to decompose the...