The Impact of Climate on Economic and Financial Cycles: A Markov-switching Panel Approach

64 Pages Posted: 12 Jan 2021

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Monica Billio

University of Venice - Department of Economics; Ca Foscari University of Venice - Dipartimento di Economia

Roberto Casarin

University Ca' Foscari of Venice - Department of Economics

Enrica De Cian

Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM); CMCC - Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici

Malcolm Mistry

Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM)

Ayokunle Anthony Osuntuyi

Ca Foscari University of Venice

Date Written: January 6, 2021

Abstract

This paper examines the impact of climate shocks on 13 European economies analysing jointly business and financial cycles, in different phases and disentangling the effects for different sector channels. A Bayesian Panel Markov-switching framework is proposed to jointly estimate the impact of extreme weather events on the economies as well as the interaction between business and financial cycles. Results from the empirical analysis suggest that extreme weather events impact asymmetrically across the different phases of the economy and heterogeneously across the EU countries. Moreover, we highlight how the manufacturing output, a component of the industrial production index, constitutes the main channel through which climate shocks impact the EU economies.

Keywords: Bayesian inference, climate shocks, financial cycle, business cycle, Markov-switching, Multi-country Panel

JEL Classification: C11, C15, C33, C53, E37

Suggested Citation

Billio, Monica and Billio, Monica and Casarin, Roberto and De Cian, Enrica and Mistry, Malcolm and Osuntuyi, Ayokunle Anthony, The Impact of Climate on Economic and Financial Cycles: A Markov-switching Panel Approach (January 6, 2021). University Ca' Foscari of Venice, Dept. of Economics Research Paper Series No. 03/WP/2021, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3764427 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3764427

Monica Billio

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Enrica De Cian

Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) ( email )

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CMCC - Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici ( email )

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Malcolm Mistry

Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) ( email )

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Italy

Ayokunle Anthony Osuntuyi

Ca Foscari University of Venice ( email )

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Venice, Veneto 30123
Italy

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