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Article Dans Une Revue Annals of Economics and Statistics Année : 2020

Reexaming the impact of ENSO on economic growth : the role of local weather conditions

Cécile Couharde
Rémi Generoso
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This paper examines the growth effects of ENSO events through their interactions with local weather conditions using the Standardized recipitation and Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI) from 1975 to 2014 and over a sample of 74 countries. The inclusion of SPEI in panel estimation makes it possible to control for time-varying country-specific effects of ENSO events, therefore outlining their heterogeneous effects on growth and eliminating a potential source of omitted-variable bias. By better identifying the persistence of ENSO effects on local weather conditions, we evidence that ENSO events generate heterogeneous and local effects depending not only on countries' climate regime but also on their weather patterns. Our results suggest that examining the growth effects of ENSO events should thus explicitly account for their interaction with weather patterns to capture more precisely the heterogeneity across countries.
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hal-03215730 , version 1 (03-05-2021)

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Olivier Damette, Cécile Couharde, Rémi Generoso, Kamiar Mohaddes. Reexaming the impact of ENSO on economic growth : the role of local weather conditions. Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2020, 40, pp.83-126. ⟨hal-03215730⟩
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