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A growing literature estimates the macroeconomic effect of weather using variations in annual country-level averages of … frequency or higher spatial resolution. To address this issue, we rely on global daily weather measurements with a 30-km spatial … resolution from 1979 to 2019 and construct 164 weather variables and their lags. We select a parsimonious subset of relevant …
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Global temperatures have increased at an unprecedented pace in the past 40 years. This paper finds that increases in temperature have uneven macroeconomic effects, with adverse consequences concentrated in countries with hot climates, such as most low-income countries. In these countries, a rise...
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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 …
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general equilibrium model reveal that good policies can help countries cope with negative weather shocks to some extent … global warming-could limit the adverse macroeconomic consequences of weather shocks in a long-lasting way …
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Local weather shocks have been shown to affect local economic output, however, little is known about their propagation … weather fluctuations and extreme weather events on sectoral economic production and the transmission of weather shocks across …
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This paper studies the transmission of bank capital shocks to loan supply in Indonesia. A series of theoretically …
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Past studies on the relationship between electricity consumption and temperature have primarily focused on individual countries. Many regions are understudied as a result of data constraint. This paper studies the relationship on a global scale, overcoming the data constraint by using grid-level...
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Using quarterly temperature and employment data between 1990 and 2021, this paper uncovers nuanced evidence on the impact of seasonal temperature within US counties: higher winter temperature increases private sector employment growth while higher summer temperature decreases it. The impacts of...
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. Empirical results based on macro and firm-level data from Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand (ASEAN-3) support this hypothesis …
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estimates potential growth for China, India, and five ASEAN countries (Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and …
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