We examine democratic public-good provision with heterogeneous legislators. Decisions are taken by majority rule and an agenda-setter proposes a level of the public good, taxes, and subsidies. Members are heterogeneous with respect to their benefits from the public good. We find that, depending...

In this paper, we analyze the connection between climate change and stock return volatility. We use temperature anomalies to measure climate change and examine the role of technology shocks. Our study covers decades of data from 1880 to 2018, and we use a new dataset to track technology shocks....

Because of the uncertainty about how to model the growth process of our economy, there is still much confusion about which discount rates should be used to evaluate actions having long-lasting impacts, as in the contexts of climate change, social security reforms or large public infrastructures...

This paper investigates the impact of the yearly announcement of realized emissions on the European carbon permit market. We find that this event generally leads to significant absolute abnormal returns on the event day, which are accompanied by increased trading volumes and high intraday...

We present a framework to identify market responses to the uncertainty regarding both potential hurricane landfall and subsequent economic impact. Stock options of firms with establishments in the landfall region exhibit large, long-lasting increases in implied volatility, reflecting impact...

We present a framework to identify market responses to the uncertainty regarding both potential hurricane landfall and subsequent economic impact. Stock options of firms with establishments in the landfall region exhibit large, long-lasting increases in implied volatility, reflecting impact...