Physical climate change and the sovereign risk of emerging economies
Abstract I show that rising temperatures can detrimentally affect the sovereign creditworthiness of emerging economies. To this end, I collect long-term monthly temperature data of 54 emerging markets. I calculate a country’s temperature deviation from its historical average, which approximates pres...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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SpringerOpen
2022-12-01
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Series: | Journal of Economic Structures |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s40008-022-00284-6 |