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The economic impact of weather and climate

Tol, Richard S. J. - 2021

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 … variability. The climate effect is larger that the weather effect. …

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Climatic Fluctuations and the Diffusion of Agriculture

Ashraf, Quamrul - 2013

This research examines the climatic origins of the diffusion of Neolithic agriculture across countries and archaeological sites. The theory suggests that a foraging society s history of climatic shocks shaped the timing of its adoption of farming. Specifically, as long as climatic disturbances...

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Climate Shocks, Cyclones, and Economic Growth : Bridging the Micro-Macro Gap

Bakkensen, Laura - 2018

into macroeconomic climate-economy models. This paper proposes a joint empirical-structural approach to bridge this gap for … a stochastic growth model for 40 vulnerable countries and project welfare effects of climate-driven cyclone risk changes …

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Climate shocks in the anthropocene era : should net domestic product be affected by climate disasters?

Nakamura, Leonard Isamu; Sliker, Brian - 2023

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International trade and the transmission of temperature shocks

Osberghaus, Daniel; Schenker, Oliver - 2022

We examine how the adverse impacts of weather shocks are distributed through the trade network. Exploiting a rich, theoretically derived, fixed effects structure, we find significant negative short-run effects of high temperature on exports. A month with an average temperature above 30 °C...

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