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Egg-Timer: Environmental Impacts and Development Location: D-112 Session Chair: Sukanya Mukherjee, IWH Halle Germany | |
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Stranger Weather: Estimating the Response of Economic Growth in German Counties to Climate Means and Local Weather Anomalies 1: IWH Halle Germany, Germany; 2: Martin Luther University Halle, Germany This paper uses the information in a novel data set on four hundred German counties to estimate the relationship between annual growth rates and climate, in the period 1995-2019. Typical measures of annual temperature and precipitation are supplemented with annual intra-seasonal temperature and precipitation variability, and local anomalies identified using fixed and moving historical thresholds. This paper finds that in a typical year, both high and low temperature anomalies are associated with 1.2 and 0.4 pp reductions in the growth rate of county GDP per-capita, irrespective of historical threshold. Precipitation anomalies are not statistically significant. Sectoral growth rates have heterogenous associations, with agriculture being more sensitive to fixed threshold, manufacturing being almost identically sensitive to both thresholds, and the transportation sector being more sensitive to moving thresholds. | |