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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hannes Boehm
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2022-12-01
Series:Journal of Economic Structures
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s40008-022-00284-6