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Strategic Trade Policy as Response to Climate Change?

Freytag, Andreas; Wangler, Leo - 2008

This paper discusses the political economy of climate protection. The objective is to come to a better understanding of why climate change has become one of the main topics at the domestic agenda in some countries, despite the fact that climate change can theoretically be considered as a topic...

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A New Perspective on Temperature Shocks

Rebei, Nooman - 2025

weather and climate change, respectively. Our findings reveal that richer and colder economies exhibit better adaptation only … in response to weather shocks, whereas the pattern reverses for climate change disturbances, challenging the conclusions …

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What if people value nature? : climate change and welfare costs

Arbex, Marcelo; Batu, Michael - In: Resource and energy economics 61 (2020), pp. 1-22

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Flight to Gold : Extreme Weather Events and Stock Returns

Lanfear, Matthew - 2017

experience substantial positive abnormal returns during these extreme weather events, which suggests that this commodity acts as …

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Impact of Climate Change on Firm Earnings : Evidence from Temperature Anomalies

Hugon, Artur - 2019

This study examines the impact of climate change on firm earnings, and how well managers anticipate the impact. Exploiting regional temperature variation around corporate headquarters, we find that firms' earnings, on average, are negatively impacted by an unusually warm climate. In economic...

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The impact of high temperatures on performance in work-related activities

Picchio, Matteo; Ours, Jan C. van - 2023

High temperatures can have a negative effect on work-related activities. Labor productivity may go down because mental health or physical health is worse when it is too warm. Workers may experience difficulties concentrating or they have to reduce effort in order to cope with heat. We...

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Financing the transition? : taking the temperature of European banks' corporate loan books a pilot study on banks' alignment with the temperature target of the Paris Agreement

Passaro, Raffaele; Schumacher, Benno; Helmke, Hannah; … - 2024

The Paris Agreement requires policy makers to keep the increase in global average temperature well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels, while pursuing efforts to limit the increase to 1.5°C. Furthermore, it demands finance flows to be consistent with pathways towards low greenhouse gas...

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Direct and indirect effects of weather experiences on life satisfaction : which role for climate change expectations?

Osberghaus, Daniel; Kühling, Jan - 2014

This paper deals with the effect of (i) damage experience from extreme weather events and (ii) expectations concerning …. The effect of experienced weather events on SWB of the heads of the households is only significant for heat waves; not for … weather experiences are quantified. It becomes apparent that the indirect effect is significant but small compared to the …

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Do Chinese individuals believe in global climate change and why? : an econometric analysis

Dai, Jing; Kesternich, Martin; Löschel, Andreas; … - 2014

analy-sis reveals that the personal experience with extreme weather events (and particularly heat-waves) alone is already … stronger effects. A rising number of extreme weather events and consequential personal damages in the future might thus further …

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Burden of climate change on malaria mortality

Dasgupta, Shouro - 2017

In 2015, an estimated 429,000 deaths and 212 million cases of malaria occurred worldwide, while 70% of the deaths occurred in children under five years old. Changes in climatic exposure such as temperature and precipitation makes malaria one of the most climate sensitive outcomes. Using a global...

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