TY  - JOUR
A1  - Donadelli, Michael
A1  - Jüppner, Marcus
A1  - Vergalli, Sergio
T1  - Temperature variability and the macroeconomy: a world tour
T2  - Environmental and resource economics
N2  - This paper uses historical monthly temperature level data for a panel of 114 countries to identify the effects of within year temperature level variability on productivity growth in five different macro regions, i.e., (1) Africa, (2) Asia, (3) Europe, (4) North America and (5) South America. We find two primary results. First, higher intra-annual temperature variability reduces (increases) productivity in Europe and North America (Asia). Second, higher intra-annual temperature variability has no significant effects on productivity in Africa and South America. Additional empirical tests indicate also the following: (1) rising intra-annual temperature variability reduces productivity (even thought less significantly)in both tropical and non-tropical regions, (2) inter-annual temperature variability reduces (increases) productivity in North America (Europe) and (3) winter and summer inter-annual temperature variability generates a drop in productivity in both Europe and North America. Taken together, these findings indicate that temperature variability shocks tend to have stronger adverse economic effects among richer economies. In a production economy featuring long-run productivity and temperature volatility shocks, we quantify these negative impacts and find welfare losses of 2.9% (1%) in Europe (North America).
KW  - Temperature variability
KW  - Productivity growth
KW  - “Macro-regions”
KW  - Welfare
Y1  - 2021
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/63627
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-636270
SN  - 1573-1502
N1  - Early View: Online Version before inclusion in an issue
N1  - Open access funding provided by Università degli Studi di Brescia within the CRUI-CARE Agreement.
VL  - 2021
IS  - online version before inclusion in an issue
PB  - Proquest ; Springer Science + Business Media B.V.
CY  - [S.l.] ; Dordrecht [u.a.]
ER  -