In this paper, we exploit exogenous variation in navigability of the Rhine river to analyze the impact of weather … weather events for business cycle analysis and contributes to gauging the costs of extreme weather events in advanced … economies. Furthermore, we provide a specific example for an idiosyncratic supply shock to a small sector that amplifies to an …

The question of how climate change affects the economy through temperature fluctuations is high on the economic … research agenda, as the identification of exogenous weather shocks is still an open issue. Using daily county-level data since …

The question of how climate change and weather fluctuations affect the economy is high on the economic research agenda …