Investment in adaptation is a critical strategy to reduce the damages from climate change, yet there is limited evidence about its effectiveness and costs. We exploit the activation of a sea wall to protect the city of Venice from increasingly high tides to provide new evidence on the...

This study presents a novel methodological framework for assessing the exposure of the Italian financial system to climate policy risks, using a micro-founded approach. By combining survey and administrative data with energy accounts and energy prices, we estimate the energy demand elasticity of...

This paper exploits the operation of a sea wall built to protect the city of Venice from increasingly high tides to provide evidence on the capitalization of public infrastructure investment in climate change adaptation into housing values. Properties above the sea wall activation threshold...