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The causal effect of environmental catastrophe on long-run economic growth : evidence from 6,700 cyclones
Hsiang, Solomon M.; Jina, Amir S. - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010395164
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The Causal Effect of Environmental Catastrophe on Long-Run Economic Growth : Evidence from 6,700 Cyclones
Hsiang, Solomon - 2014
pre-disaster trend, and do not recover within twenty years. Both rich and poor countries exhibit this response, with … suppression of annual growth rates spread across the fifteen years following disaster, generating large and significant cumulative … continuous exposure to disaster. Linking these results to projections of future cyclone activity, we estimate that under …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013049691
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The Causal Effect of Environmental Catastrophe on Long-Run Economic Growth : Evidence From 6,700 Cyclones
Hsiang, Solomon M. - 2014
pre-disaster trend, and do not recover within twenty years. Both rich and poor countries exhibit this response, with … suppression of annual growth rates spread across the fifteen years following disaster, generating large and significant cumulative … continuous exposure to disaster. Linking these results to projections of future cyclone activity, we estimate that under …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458315
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Reserves accumulation in African countries : sources, motivations, and effects
Elhiraika, Adam B. (contributor);  … - 2007
African countries have accumulated substantial foreign currency reserves in recent years, mostly from higher commodity exports as well as aid flows. In the context of macroeconomic stabilization, which remains at the forefront of national economic policymaking and aid conditionality, African...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003733946
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The impact of natural disasters on banks' impairment flow : evidence from Germany
Shala, Iliriana; Schumacher, Benno - 2022
Climate change causes natural disasters to occur at higher frequency and increased severity. Using a unique dataset on German banks, this paper explores how regionally less diversified banks in Germany adjusted their loan loss provisioning following the severe summer flood of 2013, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013370513
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Estimating the economic impacts of climate change by means of green accounting
Aaheim, Hans Asbjørn - In: Sustainable development indicators in ecological economics, (pp. 96-116). 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003282777
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The macroeconomic cost of climate volatility
Alessandri, Piergiorgio; Mumtaz, Haroon - 2021
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 conditions less predictable across countries, with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012608712
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Damage costs of climate change through intensification of tropical cyclone activities : an application of fund
Narita, Daiju (contributor); Tol, Richard S. J. (contributor) - 2008
Climate change may intensify tropical cyclone activities and amplify their negative economic effects. We simulate the direct economic impact of tropical cyclones enhanced by climate change with the integrated assessment model FUND 3.4. The results show that in the base case, the direct economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003770272
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Sectoral analysis of climate impacts in Italy
Galeotti, Marzio; Goria, Alessandra; Mombrini, Paolo; … - 2004
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002071524
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Climate disasters and the macroeconomy : does state-dependence matter? : evidence for the US
Ginn, William - In: Economics of disasters and climate change 6 (2022) 1, pp. 141-161
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013169386