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The Impact of Typhoons on Economic Activity in the Philippines:
ADB economics working paper series, 2019 We quantify the economic impact of typhoons in the Philippines. To this end we construct a panel data set of local economic activity derived from nightlight intensity satellite images and a cell level measure of typhoon damage constructed from storm ...
E. Strobl
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Considerations on economic forecasting: method developed in the bulletin of EU and US inflation and macroeconomic analysis [PDF]
, 2004 This article presents economic forecasting as an activity acquiring full significance when it is involved in a decision-making process. The activity requires a sequence of functions consisting of gathering and organising data, the construction of ...
Albacete, Rebeca, Espasa, Antoni
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, 1988 The role of wages in economic fluctuations is a rather fraught topic, having been the subject of bitter controversy for many years. Like most such arguments, the fundamental issue is how well a decentralised market economy works and, when it patently does not work in practice, whose fault it is. Our purpose in what follows is to discuss how the economy
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The Effects of Weather Shocks on Economic Activity: What are the Channels of Impact?
Social Science Research Network, 2018 Global temperatures have increased at an unprecedented pace in the past 40 years. This paper finds that increases in temperature have uneven macroeconomic effects, with adverse consequences concentrated in countries with hot climates, such as most low ...
S. Mejia +4 more
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Economic Activity and Institutions [PDF]
This paper is one of two working papers concerning the waste management sector transition project run from MERIT under the direction of René Kemp.
Saeed Parto
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Economic Activity and the Spread of Viral Diseases: Evidence from High Frequency Data
Social Science Research Network, 2016 Viruses are a major threat to human health, and - given that they spread through social interactions - represent a costly externality. This paper addresses three main issues: i) what are the unintended consequences of economic activity on the spread of ...
J. Adda
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