The macroeconomic impact of global and country-specific climate risk

Byrne, Joseph P. and Vitenu-Sackey, Prince Asare (2024) The macroeconomic impact of global and country-specific climate risk. Environmental and Resource Economics, 87 (3). pp. 655-682. ISSN 0924-6460 (https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-023-00831-0)

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Abstract

This paper examines the impact of climate risk on macroeconomic activity for thirty countries using over a century of panel time series data. The key innovation of our paper is to use a factor stochastic volatility approach to decompose climate change into global and country-specific climate risk and to consider their distinct impact upon macroeconomic activity. To allow for country heterogeneity, we also differentiate the impact of climate risk upon advanced and emerging economies. While the existing literature has focused on country based climate risk shocks, our results suggest idiosyncratic or country-specific climate risk shocks are relatively unimportant. Global climate risk, on the other hand, has a negative and relatively more important impact on macroeconomic activity. In particular, we find that both advanced and emerging countries are adversely impacted by global climate risk shocks.

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