I propose a new conceptual framework to disentangle the impacts of weather and climate on economic activity and growth …: A stochastic frontier model with climate in the production frontier and weather shocks as a source of inefficiency. I … test it on a sample of 160 countries over the period 1950-2014. Temperature and rainfall determine production possibilities …

vulnerable than richer ones. A meta-analysis of the impact of weather shocks reveals that studies, which relate economic growth … to temperature levels, cannot agree on the sign of the impact whereas studies, which make economic growth a function of … temperature change do agree on the sign but differ an order of magnitude in effect size. The former studies posit that climate …

temperature and precipitation fluctuations to investigate whether changes in temperature and precipitation are associated with …Climate change researchers predict a dramatic increase in global average temperature over the next decades. We use past … precipitation on economic growth in 105 countries for the time period 1991-2009. …

cardiovascular disease mortality impact. Across a comprehensive range of empirical specifications, we observe a robust economically … and statistically significant rise in cardiovascular disease mortality for an increase in SO2 emissions. We also … emissions increases cardiovascular disease mortality but leads to short-term regional cooling and reduced global warming and as …

macroeconomic models underlying most IAMs. By re-estimating the global non-linear relationship between temperature and country …

77 countries. In temperate and tropical climates, annual temperature shocks reduce GRP whereas they increase GRP in cold … climates. With respect to long-term climate conditions, one degree of temperature increase reduces output by 2-3%. The effect … of annual or long-term precipitation is found to be less important and less robust among specifications. For projected …