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Risk Perception of Climate Change : Empirical Evidence for Germany

Frondel, Manuel - 2016

The perception of risks resulting from climate change is a key factor in motivating individual adaptation and prevention behavior, as well as for the support of climate policy measures. Using a generalized ordered logit approach and drawing on a unique data set originating from two surveys...

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The Impact of Extreme Weather Events on Education

Groppo, Valeria - 2015

comprehensive retrospective information on households' historic experience with weather shocks. Exposure to the weather shock … significantly reduces the likelihood of being enrolled in mandatory school two to three years after the shock. Similarly, it … significantly reduces the probability of completing basic education ten to eleven years after the shock. Both effects are driven by …

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When do extreme weather events generate attention to climate change?

Sisco, Matthew R. - 2020

We analyzed the effects of 10,748 weather events on attention to climate change between December 2011 and November 2014 in local areas across the USA. Attention was gauged by quantifying the relative increase in Twitter messages about climate change in the local area around the time of each...

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A Possible Approach to Fiscal Rules in Small Islands - Incorporating Natural Disasters and Climate Change

Nakatani, Ryota - 2019

targets with expected disaster shocks. This paper contributes to the literature and policy dialogue by theoretically analyzing …

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The Climate Change and Natural Disasters Evaluation in China : Floods

Ruiz Estrada, Mario Arturo - 2014

Global climate change has a potentially large impact on economic growth but measuring their economic impact is subject to a great deal of uncertainty. The central objective of our paper is to set forth a model – the macroeconomics evaluation of climate change (MECC) model – to evaluate the...

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Enhancing Macroeconomic Resilience to Natural Disasters and Climate Change in the Small States of the Pacific

Cabezon, Ezequiel R. - 2015

drops by 0.7 percentage point in the year of the disaster. We also find that, during 1980-2014, trend growth was 0 …

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Extreme Weather and Risk Preference : Panel Evidence from Germany

Osberghaus, Daniel - 2016

Individual risk preference may change after experiencing external socio-economic or natural shocks. Theoretical predictions and empirical studies suggest that risk taking may increase or decrease after experiencing shocks. So far the empirical evidence is sparse, especially when it comes to...

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The effects of natural disasters on price stability in the euro area

Beirne, John; Dafermos, Yannis; Kriwoluzky, Alexander; … - 2021

country-specific structural vector autoregression (VAR) models by combining estimated damages of disaster events with monthly …

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Climatic Disasters and Distracted Analysts

Han, Yuqi; Mao, Connie X.; Tan, Hongping; Zhang, Chi - 2021

climatic disaster become less accurate than those by the unaffected analysts within three months after the disaster due to … distracted attention. Stock prices respond less strongly to earnings revisions by disaster-zone analysts. Disaster-zone analysts … covered by disaster-zone analysts, suggesting a spillover effect of idiosyncratic shocks via financial intermediaries …

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How do firms cope with losses from extreme weather events?

Benincasa, Emanuela; Betz, Frank; Gattini, Luca - 2022

We document the investment and financing decisions of firms that experience monetary losses due to extreme weather events. Our sample covers firms operating in 41 economies, mainly emerging and developing markets. Consistent with the need to either replenish damaged capital or to adapt to...

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