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Econometric Modelling of Carbon Dioxide Emissions and Concentrations, Ambient Temperatures and Ocean Deoxygenation
Bhargava, Alok - 2021
temperatures from over 8,500 weather stations, and seawater composition from over 380,000 oceanographic stations were analyzed for … annual and seasonal temperatures compiled at weather stations, and atmospheric CO2 concentrations were significantly …
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Temperature anomalies, long memory, and aggregation
Vera-Valdés, J. Eduardo - In: Econometrics : open access journal 9 (2021) 1/9, pp. 1-22
Econometric studies for global heating have typically used regional or global temperature averages to study its long memory properties. One typical explanation behind the long memory properties of temperature averages is cross-sectional aggregation. Nonetheless, formal analysis regarding the...
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Volatile temperatures and their effects on equity returns and firm performance
Bortolan, Leonardo; Dey, Atreya; Taschini, Luca - 2024
We establish the financial materiality of temperature variability by demonstrating its impact on US firms and investors. A long-short strategy that sorts firms based on exposure earns a market-adjusted alpha of 39 basis points per month. This variability metric is related to aggregate decreases...
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Burden of climate change on malaria mortality
Dasgupta, Shouro - 2017
In 2015, an estimated 429,000 deaths and 212 million cases of malaria occurred worldwide, while 70% of the deaths occurred in children under five years old. Changes in climatic exposure such as temperature and precipitation makes malaria one of the most climate sensitive outcomes. Using a global...
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Raising awareness of climate change : nature, activists, politicians?
Grechyna, Daryna - 2024
This paper evaluates the relative importance of natural and human factors in shaping public awareness of climate change. I compare the predictive efficacy of natural factors, represented by air temperature deviations from historical norms, and human factors, encompassing noteworthy political...
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Temperature, climate change, and human conception rates : evidence from Hungary
Hajdu, Tamás; Hajdu, Gábor - 2020
In this paper, we examine the relationship between temperature and human conception rates and project the impacts of climate change by the mid-twenty-first century. Using complete administrative data on 6.8 million pregnancies between 1980 and 2015 in Hungary, we show that exposure to hot...
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Feeling the heat : extreme temperatures and price stability
Faccia, Donata; Parker, Miles; Stracca, Livio - 2021
We contribute to the debate surrounding central banks and climate change by investigating how extreme temperatures affect medium-term inflation, the primary objective of monetary policy. Using panel local projections for 48 advanced and emerging market economies (EMEs), we study the impact of...
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How does climate change affect the transition of power systems: the case of Germany
Golub, Alexander; Govorukha, Kristina; Mayer, Philip; … - 2020
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 …
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Trust, temperature fluctuations, and asylum applications
Carattini, Stefano; Veronesi, Marcella - 2020
weather on migration. This effect is driven by the role of trust in increasing adaptive capacity. However, for severe …
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The effects of natural disasters and weather variations on international trade : a review of the empirical literature
Osberghaus, Daniel - 2019
This review summarizes the empirical literature on the effects of natural disasters and weather variations on …
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