In this paper, we analyze the connection between climate change and stock return volatility. We use temperature anomalies to measure climate change and examine the role of technology shocks. Our study covers decades of data from 1880 to 2018, and we use a new dataset to track technology shocks....

I show that rising temperatures can detrimentally affect the sovereign creditworthiness of emerging economies. To this end, I collect long-term monthly temperature data of 54 emerging countries. I calculate a country’s temperature deviation from its historical average, which approximates...