In this paper, we exploit exogenous variation in navigability of the Rhine river to analyze the impact of weather … weather events for business cycle analysis and contributes to gauging the costs of extreme weather events in advanced … economies. Furthermore, we provide a specific example for an idiosyncratic supply shock to a small sector that amplifies to an …

weather events and lack of access to credit, our study aims to (i) investigate the impact of weather shocks and credit on the … rice production efficiency, and to (ii) examine the role of credit in mitigating the impact of weather shocks. We find that … weather shocks, land fragmentation and the migration of household members are the major sources of inefficiency. Meanwhile …

income shocks. The empirical strategy identifies households’ responses to random weather shocks and estimates their … to cope with negative weather shocks than those living in regions with non-state armed actor presence but with limited or … no intervention. The former households face a lower economic impact of weather shocks and resort less to survival …

In this paper, we examine the relationship between childhood exposure to adverse weather shocks and nutritional and … health outcomes of children in Tanzania. Using household panel data matched with spatially disaggregated data on weather … shocks, we exploit the plausibly exogenous variations in the exposure to weather shocks to estimate the relationship. Our …

nation that is frequently affected by extreme weather events. Our results show that negative rainfall deviations and cyclones … insurance, which reduces their ability to cope with negative weather shocks. …

average treatment effects and strong spatial spillovers, particularly for weather shocks. Moreover, substantial heterogeneity …

combine with high resolution weather data of the producing states. For every city, we construct a relevant temperature measure …

research agenda, as the identification of exogenous weather shocks is still an open issue. Using daily county-level data since …

research question: Does greater exchange rate flexibility help an economy’s adjustment to weather shocks? To address this … question, the impact of weather shocks on real per capita GDP growth is quantified under the two alternative exchange rate … regimes. We find that although weather shocks are generally detrimental to per capita income growth, the impact is less severe …