Key methodologies used for managing weather risks have relied on the assumption that climate is not changing and that the historic weather record is therefore representative of current risks. Anthropogenic climate change upends this assumption, effectively reducing the information available to...

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword by President Bill Clinton -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. "Take Care of Our City" -- 2. Family Roots -- 3. Entree to Politics and Policy -- 4. Birth of the Association for a Better New York -- 5. The Film and Television Industry Comes of Age in New York City --...

The Man Who Saved New York -- The Man Who Saved New York -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1: The Life Stinks Club -- 2: "Oh, Now What Have You Done?" -- 3: Party Crasher -- 4: On Borrowed Time -- 5: Visible Means of Support -- 6: "We Confront, therefore, a Formidable Dilemma" --...

We develop a new dynamic equilibrium model with heterogeneous households that captures the most important frictions that arise in housing rental markets and explains the political popularity of affordable housing policies. We estimate the model using data collected by the New York Housing...