-stage Heckman procedure. Using 37 years of spatial and temporal information on weather and fire records in Southern California, this …Catastrophic wildfires in California have become more frequent in past decades, while insured losses per event have … been rising substantially. On average, California ranks the highest among states in the U.S. in the number of fires as well …

weather prediction systems. Two major problems that complicate this approach are the nonlinear relationship between wind speed …

The standard approach to 'nowcast' disaster impacts, which relies on risk models, does not typically account for the … nowcasting, and for post-disaster damage assessment. We focus on Fiji and on its agriculture sector, and on tropical cyclones … be used for both nowcasting and post-disaster damage assessments. …

bandwidth parameter, limit for station radius of influence, and sampling frequency. …

deaths in the elderly with preceding weather variables in downtown Toronto. Deaths in the younger groups are less dependent … on weather. Death rates are shown to depend on temperature, solar irradiance (sunlight) and relative humidity, with …

This study quantifies firm-specific operating exposure to cumulative unexpected weather variations and examines how it … seasonality hypothesis posits that operating weather exposure reduces earnings seasonality, thereby increasing forecast dispersion … and reducing forecast accuracy. The increase in short-term earnings persistence hypothesis posits that operating weather …

This study quantifies firm-specific operating exposure to cumulative unexpected weather variations and examines how it … seasonality hypothesis posits that operating weather exposure reduces earnings seasonality, thereby increasing forecast dispersion … and reducing forecast accuracy. The increase in short-term earnings persistence hypothesis posits that operating weather …