 | Weather Shocks and Output in Low-Income Countries: The Role of Policies and Adaptation Author/Editor: Sebastian Acevedo Mejia, Claudio Baccianti, Mico Mrkaic, Natalija Novta, Evgenia Pugacheva, Petia Topalova. Release Date:August, 2019 We explore the extent to which macroeconomic policies, structural policies, and institutions can mitigate the negative relationship between temperature shocks and output in countries with warm more...
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| The Effects of Weather Shocks on Economic Activity: What are the Channels of Impact? Author/Editor: Sebastian Acevedo Mejia, Mico Mrkaic, Natalija Novta, Evgenia Pugacheva, Petia Topalova. Release Date:June, 2018 Global temperatures have increased at an unprecedented pace in the past 40 years. This paper finds that increases in temperature have uneven macroeconomic effects, with adverse consequences more...
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| Revisiting the Potential Impact to the Rest of the Caribbean from Opening US-Cuba Tourism Author/Editor: Sebastian Acevedo Mejia, Trevor Serge Coleridge Alleyne, Rafael Romeu. Release Date:April, 2017 The Cuban revolution and the subsequent US embargo on Cuba helped shape the tourism
sector in the Caribbean, facilitating the birth and growth of alternative destinations.
Therefore, the more...
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| Gone with the Wind : Estimating Hurricane and Climate Change Costs in the Caribbean Author/Editor: Sebastian Acevedo Mejia. Release Date:October, 2016 This paper studies the economic costs of hurricanes in the Caribbean by constructing a
novel dataset that combines a detailed record of tropical cyclones’ characteristics with
reported more...
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 | Caribbean Growth in an International Perspective: The Role of Tourism and Size Author/Editor: Nita Thacker, Sebastian Acevedo Mejia, Roberto Perrelli. Release Date:September, 2012 After earlier success, growth performance in most Caribbean countries has been disappointing since the early 1990s. With slower growth, output has fallen behind that of relevant comparator countries. more...
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