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Severe weather and financial (in)stability

Energy Economics
We quantify the effect of severe weather shocks on the US economy in an environment in which the economy can switch between periods of financial stability and financial instability, like the Great Recession. We estimate a New Keynesian dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model with banks and severe weather events. We show that severe weather shocks:
Foroni, Claudia, Gelain, Paolo, Lorusso, Marco, Marcellino, Massimiliano   +3 more
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Severe Weather and Collateral Practices

Physical climate risks significantly influence banks' collateral practices. Drawing on comprehensive loan-level data from Sweden, we find that adverse weather events increase both the likelihood and the amount of collateral required for new loans.
Cella, Cristina, Schubert, Valentin
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Severe weather

Disaster Prevention and Management: An International Journal, 2007
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Severe Weather Forecasting with Transition Information

2009 WRI World Congress on Computer Science and Information Engineering, 2009
The effective information extracting from sounding data is important for severe weather forecasting. The atmospheric structure analysis has been done with V-3θ plot, which is different from the synoptic chart forecasting. This research introduces the calculation and programming of the V-3θ plot, and analyses the typical severe weather events.
Ming Wei, Xiaolong Huang
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Severe Weather and the Macroeconomy

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics
We investigate the impact of severe weather shocks on the US macroeconomy over the past 60 years. Using a nonlinear vector autoregressive model, we find robust evidence of time-varying effects. While negligible at the beginning of the sample, the impact becomes signifi-cant at the end, where an increase in the severe weather index reduces aggregate ...
Hee Soo Kim, Christian Matthes, Toàn Phan   +2 more
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Several Aspects Regarding Weather and Weather Derivatives [PDF]

Romanian Economic Journal, 2008
In recent years, one of the factors that had a significant impact on the economic development was represented by climatic change. At international level, the weather risk management stands for a priority for Governments, insurance companies and companies within the industries affected by the weather variability. Within this article, we try to address a
Gheorghe Hurduzeu, Laura Gabriela Constantin   +1 more
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Heat and Severe Weather

2016
A hotter climate means there will be more heat waves and heat-related illnesses, such as heat exhaustion and heat stroke, the leading causes of weather-related death in the US. Without mitigation, annual world-wide heat-related deaths may exceed 225,000 by 2050.
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Severe weather phobia: An exploratory study

Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1996
Eighty-one persons with an intense fear of severe thunderstorms and tornadoes were interviewed to learn more about the phenomenon of "severe weather phobia," a term introduced for the first time in this investigation. Possible causes and methods of treatment are discussed, as well as implications for future research.
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Severe weather

Disaster Prevention and Management: An International Journal, 2008
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The interaction effect of severe weather and non-weather factors on freeway travel volume

Science of the Total Environment, 2022
Xiaobao Yang, Yali Yuan
exaly