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Measuring Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture : An Equilibrium Perspective on Supply-Side Approaches

Gouel, Christophe - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

A popular approach for estimating climate change impacts on agriculture is to rely on supply-side reduced …

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Hsiao, Allan; Moscona, Jacob; Sastry, Karthik - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Do governments systematically intervene in agricultural markets in response to climate shocks? If so, what are the aggregate and distributional consequences? We construct a global dataset of agricultural policies and extreme heat exposure by country and crop since 1980. We find that extreme heat...

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Long-Range Forecasts As Climate Adaptation : Experimental Evidence From Developing-Country Agriculture

Burlig, Fiona; Jina, Amir; Kelley, Erin M.; Lane, Gregory V. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

, randomizing 250 villages into control; a forecast group receiving information well in advance of onset; and a benchmark index … insurance group. Forecast farmers update their beliefs and their behavior: farmers who receive "bad news" relative to their …" significantly increase input expenditures. The forecast also impacts crop choice, as farmers tailor their investments. These …

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Climate Change Around the World

Krusell, Per; Smith, Anthony A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

The economic effects of climate change vary across both time and space. To study these effects, this paper builds a global economy-climate model featuring a high degree of geographic resolution. Carbon emissions from the use of energy in production increase the Earth's (average) temperature and...

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The Macroeconomic Impact of Climate Change : Global vs. Local Temperature

Bilal, Adrien; Känzig, Diego R. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

temperature leads to a 12% decline in world GDP. Global temperature shocks correlate much more strongly with extreme climatic …

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Agricultural Crises and Government Responses Between the World Wars in the Atlantic Trading Network

Fishback, Price - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

The paper summarizes research on the heterogeneous experiences of actors in agriculture in Europe and the Americas … between the First and Second World Wars. Following a period of increasing globalization of agricultural markets, the First … World War sharply limited farming in the main combatant nations, which led to sharp increases in agricultural prices and …

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Global Trade and Margins of Productivity in Agriculture

Farrokhi, Farid - 2020

We study the effects of globalization on agricultural productivity across countries. We develop a multi-country general equilibrium model that incorporates choices of crops and technologies in agricultural production at the micro-level of fields covering the surface of the earth. We estimate our...

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Does Unilateral Decarbonization Pay For Itself?

Bilal, Adrien; Känzig, Diego R. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

This paper shows that unilateral decarbonization pays for itself in large economies. We estimate economic damages from global temperature shocks and combine them with a climate-economy model to construct Domestic Costs of Carbon: $226 per ton for the United States and $216 per ton for the...

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Trade, Leakage, and the Design of a Carbon Tax

Weisbach, David A.; Kortum, Samuel; Wang, Michael Y.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

region of the world imposes a climate policy and the rest of the world is passive. We solve the model analytically and also …

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Think Globally, Act Globally : Opportunities to Mitigate Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Glennerster, Rachel; Jayachandran, Seema - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Reductions in greenhouse gas emissions are a global public good, which makes it efficient to act globally when addressing this challenge. We lay out several reasons that high-income countries seeking to mitigate climate change might have greater impact if they invest their resources in...

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