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different types of disasters, the effect of changing disaster risk so far has largely been neglected. In this paper we study the … effect of hurricane risk on individual self-reported life satisfaction. In order to do so we combine geo-referenced survey … we construct time-varying indicators of hurricane risk on the zip-code-level for the period of 2010 to 2018, based on …
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We study a commons problem under uncertainty, where individual actions affect the risk of a future damage event. We … show that for risk-averse agents, an extra risk on the amount of the damage induces more precautionary actions in Nash … equilibrium. Similarly, for prudent agents an extra risk in all states of the world induces more precautionary actions in Nash …
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in the country in order to measure the impact of climate change on the dengue risk in Brazil, and also examine the public … risk, a comparative case study research will be used, based on the comparison of cities that suffered from specific climate … conditions that increased the risk of dengue with cities whose climatic conditions stayed the same. The counterfactual will be …
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This paper investigates the factors that influence the change in passenger ski-lift transports between a normal winter and an anomalously mild winter based on individual lift and aggregate ski-area data. Special focus is placed on the return on investments in new ski lifts. Using endogenous...
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This paper adds to the scarce empirical evidence related to the impact of climate change on the manufacturing sector. To study the effect of temperature on energy use and CO2 emissions daily temperature information from 11.000 German municipalities are combined with the census of the...
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Different countries of the world are affected differently by the adverse impacts of anthropogenic climate change. For a large country consisting of several regions with different geographical conditions, the direct geographical impacts of climate change may differ significantly. Given the...
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