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How would climate change affect India’s agriculture which accounts for sixty percent of employment? We study the impact …
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agriculture is likely to be smooth. …
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We quantify the impacts of droughts in New Zealand on the profitability of dairy, and sheep and beef farms. Using a comprehensive administrative database of all businesses in New Zealand, we investigate the impact of droughts on farm revenue, profits, return on capital, business equity, debt to...
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Floods are among the most frequent and destructive natural hazards worldwide, yet their economic impacts remain poorly understood. This paper examines the effects of two cyclone-induced floods on firms’ economic performance in New Zealand. To identify flood damage, we propose a novel method...
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IT investment in any sectors, it does significantly improve labor productivity for firms in manufacturing and in …
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Firms in developed countries face increasing shortages of young workers. This paper studies the importance of young workers, particularly vocational trainees, for firm technology investments. Leveraging exogenous variation in trainee supply caused by an education reform in Germany in 2001, I...
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economy. To capture the main causes of biodiversity loss and the economic harm from it, we focus on agriculture and its …
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Custom software is distinct from other types of capital in that it is non-rival—once a firm makes an investment in … custom software. In the model, firms choose whether to adopt custom software, the intensity of their investment, and their …-rivalrous custom software investment. Using the calibrated model, we assess the extent to which the decline in the rental rate of …
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makes predicting these shifts hard. Hence, this paper asks whether forecasting them is necessary for optimal rotation … forecasting, we suggest a method utilizing Monte-Carlo simulations to obtain a credible upper bound on these losses. We show that …
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A body of literature suggests that ethnic heterogeneity limits economic growth. This paper provides microeconometric evidence on the direct effect of ethnic divisions on productivity. In team production at a plant in Kenya, an upstream worker supplies and distributes flowers to two downstream...
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