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Adapting to Rising Insurance Prices in Wildfire Zones in the American West
A coin has two sides. You can flip a “heads” or a “tails”. Homeowners often seek to flip “one sided” coins. Over the last 25 years, home prices have…
Jan 24
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Climate Risk Exposure and Risk Perceptions and Poverty
The NY Times recently published an interesting piece focused on Bayesian Learning regarding emerging climate risks. The author is worried that climate…
Jan 24
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How Will Long Term Care Facilities Adapt to Wildfire Induced PM2.5 Air Pollution Spikes?
I just received the following email. Here is a recent paper on the economics of Long Term Care (LTC). Great economists are thinking about the supply and…
Jan 23
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State and Local Public Finance and the Rising Value of a California "Rainy Day" Fund
How Does California's Huge Budget Deficit Hinder Climate Change Adaptation Investment?
Jan 21
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Matthew E. Kahn
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A Prospective Analysis of New York State's New Climate Resilience Plan
Climate change adaptation pessimists are on the ropes. They used to argue that nobody is adapting to the emerging flood and fire and heat risks that are…
Jan 14
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Could Climate Change Pose an Existential Threat to Municipal Bond Markets?
"No"
Jan 11
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A Prospective Evaluation of an Innovative Insurance Policy Proposal to Lower Rates in Increasingly Risky Areas in Florida
Can we agree that the following statements are true? First, there is valuable real estate in Florida. Second, some of this real estate faces intense…
Jan 3
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December 2023
How Does the Rise of WFH Help Us to Adapt to Extreme Weather Shocks?
Consider a major snowstorm’s impact on daily productivity in the Chicago suburbs in January 2025. Back in 2019, terrible traffic would snarl and cause…
Dec 27, 2023
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How Are Firms Adapting to Climate Change?
Lessons from Southwest Airlines versus a Video Game Design Firm
Dec 25, 2023
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How Do Different Firms Adapt to Climate Change Place Based Risks?
Lessons from a Pizzeria versus a Video Game Designer
Dec 24, 2023
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Some Volcano Economics
The recent Iceland Volcano provides a scary natural experiment for testing whether the pace of adaptation is accelerating. The Volcano increases local…
Dec 20, 2023
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Economics Lessons from Snow Melt on Mount Everest
Snow melt due to warmer temperatures has many implications for water supply and flooding but I want to focus on a single issue in this post. The Wall…
Dec 19, 2023
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