Is temperature adversely related to economic development? Evidence on the short-run and the long-run links from sub-national data.
ARC BITA held a Research Seminar. Presented by guest speaker, Prof. Dr. David Stadelmann, this workshop had been tailored for our CIs, Partner Investigators (PIs) and students.
Date: Friday 23 February
Workshop: 1:00-2:30pm
Location: QUT Gardens Point
Please note this is a members only event.
Event Details
Speaker Details
Prof. Dr. David Stadelmann
The seminar examined the effect of rising temperatures on regional economic development, using annual sub-national data for over 1,500 regions in 155 countries between 1990 and 2017. In a panel setting with region- and country-time fixed effects, they found no evidence of a homogeneous or heterogeneous effect of rising temperatures on economic development as measured by regional per capita income. Additionally, no non-linear relationship between temperature and economic development is found.
You can access the study here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4359186
Prof. Dr. David Stadelmann studied Economics (MA/BA) as well as Mathematics (MSc/BSc) at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) where he received his PhD in 2010 in Economics and Social Sciences. He has been professor at the University of Bayreuth (Germany) since 2013 (call at age of 29). Stadelmann’s research interests include economic policy, political economics, institutional economics as well as the broad field of development. He has authored over 80 scientific publications. He regularly publishes in non-academic outlets such as magazines, blogs as well as newspapers (over 200 contributions), and serves as a regular guest at conferences around the world. He was awarded diverse research prices including the “Reinhard-Selten-Preis” (German Economic Association), the “Ludwig-Erhard-Preis” (Ludwig Erhard Foundation), or the Science Price of the Region of Vorarlberg (Austria). He was among the TOP Young Economists in Austria, Germany and Switzerland according to “Forschungsmonitoring” and among the top 10% of authors according to RePEc.