Mortality caused by tropical cyclones in the United States

R Young, S Hsiang - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Natural disasters trigger complex chains of events within human societies. Immediate deaths
and damage are directly observed after a disaster and are widely studied, but delayed …

Corporate climate risk: Measurements and responses

Q Li, H Shan, Y Tang, V Yao - The Review of Financial Studies, 2024 - academic.oup.com
This paper conducts a textual analysis of earnings call transcripts to quantify climate risk
exposure at the firm level. We construct dictionaries that measure physical and transition …

[PDF][PDF] Adaptation principles: a guide for designing strategies for climate change adaptation and resilience

S Hallegatte, J Rentschler, J Rozenberg - 2020 - openknowledge.worldbank.org
Effective action on resilience and climate change adaptation can be a complex task—
requiring coordinated efforts from the highest levels of government to individual households …

[PDF][PDF] The local economic impact of natural disasters

BR Tran, DJ Wilson - 2020 - frbsf.org
We study the dynamic responses of local economies after natural disasters in the US using
county-level data over the past four decades. We find disasters increase income total and …

Climate change, the food problem, and the challenge of adaptation through sectoral reallocation

I Nath - 2021 - journals.uchicago.edu
This paper evaluates the potential for global reallocation between agricultural and non-
agricultural production to contribute to climate change adaptation. Empirical estimates using …

Does environmental policy uncertainty hinder investments towards a low-carbon economy?

J Noailly, L Nowzohour, M Van Den Heuvel - 2022 - nber.org
We use machine learning algorithms to construct a novel news-based index of US
environmental and climate policy uncertainty (EnvPU) available on a monthly basis over the …

Climate-change adaptation: The role of fiscal policy

M Catalano, L Forni, E Pezzolla - Resource and Energy Economics, 2020 - Elsevier
Climate change and natural disasters have important consequences on fiscal sustainability,
especially for developing countries with limited financial resources and underdeveloped …

Extreme Weather Events and Climate Change: Economic Impacts and Adaptation Policies

S Ferreira - Annual Review of Resource Economics, 2024 - annualreviews.org
This article reviews the literature on the economic impacts of disasters caused by extreme
weather and climate events to draw lessons on how societies can better manage these risks …

Macroeconomic outcomes in disaster-prone countries

A Cantelmo, G Melina, C Papageorgiou - Journal of Development …, 2023 - Elsevier
Using a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model, we study the channels through
which natural disaster shocks affect macroeconomic outcomes and welfare in disaster-prone …

[PDF][PDF] Anticipating climate change across the united states

A Bilal, E Rossi-Hansberg - 2023 - aeaweb.org
We evaluate how anticipation and adaptation shape the aggregate and local costs of climate
change. We develop a dynamic spatial model of the US economy and its 3,143 counties that …