estimate the effect of weather and mobility on the spread of the pandemic. We find a strong and significant effect of the … weather: lower temperaturas are associated with a higher Rt, and this effect is bigger at temperatures below 0ºC. At low …

weather relative to another sector, industry productivity from 1977-2000 was modeled against measures of temperature and …This study quantifies the impact of weather on eleven two-digit SIC sectors of the U.S. economy ranging from … agriculture and construction to retail trade and utilities. Although it is obvious that weather affects the output of most sectors …

producers in the USA, Canada, and Australia adopt El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO)-based climate forecasts for use in …

. Australia represents such a natural experiment. In Australia, Betting and Gaming legislation is determined at the state level …

-germination models in predicting germination-time under constant-temperature conditions. Of specific interest was the assessment of shape … assumptions associated with the cardinal-temperature germination model and probit distribution often used to distribute thermal … coefficients among seed subpopulations. METHODS: The seeds of four rangeland grass species were germinated over the constant-temperature …

growth enhancement. Results indicate that a) constant temperature is the strongest promoter of overall growth regardless of … photoperiod; b) constant photoperiod also promotes overall growth regardless of temperature; c) natural (decreasing) photoperiod … initiates maturation in yellow perch regardless of temperature; d) natural temperature is required for late maturational …

CAT bonds and weather derivatives are end-products of a process known as securitization that transform non …-tradable (natural catastrophes or weather related) risk factors into tradable financial assets. As a result the markets for such … of weather risk and weather risk premium. The thesis starts by introducing the risk transfering instruments, the …

Products, Coal, Electricity) is expressed as a function of various factors, including temperature. Parameter values are … levels and sensitivity to temperature variations. These features make the model results especially valuable in the analysis …. Short- and long-run temperature elasticities of demand are estimated. …