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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 … how European policy addressed these severe risks. Our analysis is based on extensive datasets covering temperature and …
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This paper deals with the effect of (i) damage experience from extreme weather events and (ii) expectations concerning …. The effect of experienced weather events on SWB of the heads of the households is only significant for heat waves; not for … weather experiences are quantified. It becomes apparent that the indirect effect is significant but small compared to the …
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This paper deals with the effect of (i) damage experience from extreme weather events and (ii) expectations concerning …. The effect of experienced weather events on SWB of the heads of the households is only significant for heat waves; not for … weather experiences are quantified. It becomes apparent that the indirect effect is significant but small compared to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013049651
We investigate the impact of short-term weather and long-term climate on self-reported life satisfaction using panel … data. We find robust evidence that day-to-day weather variation impacts life satisfaction by a similar magnitude to … present evidence that weather bias arises because of the cognitive challenge of reporting life satisfaction. Consistent with …
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Individual risk preference may change after experiencing external socio-economic or natural shocks. Theoretical predictions and empirical studies suggest that risk taking may increase or decrease after experiencing shocks. So far the empirical evidence is sparse, especially when it comes to...
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Individual risk preference may change after experiencing external socio-economic or natural shocks. Theoretical predictions and empirical studies suggest that risk taking may increase or decrease after experiencing shocks. So far the empirical evidence is sparse, especially when it comes to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012993572
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...
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. To study the effect of temperature on energy use and CO2 emissions daily temperature information from 11.000 German …
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The effects of extreme weather events, such as heat waves and droughts, are taken into account in both global and … emerging risks of extreme weather events, in particular, droughts and high temperatures, for the German power sector. Our … analysis is based on extensive datasets comprising temperature and drought data for the last 40 years. We find evidence of a …
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-economic groups, an increase of one degree Celsius in average summer temperature is associated with a rise of 2.3 percentage points in …
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