The persistence of climate-driven cooperation plays an important role for firms’ resilience to economic downturns. We hypothesize that the weather-induced social capital reduces financial obstacles for firms and enhances corporate resilience to crises. Our results based on high-resolution...

Purpose The Group of 20 (G20) is tasked with responding to economic shocks in the global financial system, with COVID-19 having proved to be the most significant shock since the G20's inception. COVID-19 also represents the first economic crisis accompanied by a concerted attempt to "build back...

This very short book chapter provides an overview of how the COVID-19 pandemic has already impacted climate emissions, the potential long-term effects on emissions, and already adopted and proposed green stimulus programs in the U.S. and elsewhere. Experience from the 2008 financial crisis...

The Asia-Pacific region was the first to be hit by the COVID-19 pandemic; it put a strain on its people and economies, and policymaking became exceptionally difficult. This departmental paper contains the assessment of the key challenges facing Asia at this critical juncture and policy advice to...

I present the case for the relationship between climatic oscillations and sovereign debt crisis between 1970 to 2018. I find strong empirical evidence of a relationship between the Antarctic Oscillation, the Madden-Julian Oscillation, the North Atlantic Oscillation, the Pacific North American...

Part I. Shocked Economies: New Urban Thinking and Sustainable Advancement -- Chapter 1. Urbanization Motif, COVID-19, and Economic Revival: Exploratory Research from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia -- Chapter 2. Lessons for Sub-Saharan Africa: Using the Development Model from East Asia in Nigeria,...