TY - JOUR
T1 - Importing inputs for climate change mitigation
T2 - The case of agricultural productivity
AU - Garcia-Verdu, Rodrigo
AU - Meyer-Cirkel, Alexis
AU - Sasahara, Akira
AU - Weisfeld, Hans
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The views expressed herein are those of the authors and should not be attributed to the IMF, its Executive Boards, or its managements. The authors are grateful to the editor, Ngo Van Long, and anonymous referees for helpful comments and suggestions. We also thank Masahiro Endoh, Tomohiro Ara, Manoj Atolia, Alessandro Cantelmo, Mauro Caselli, Marc Chopin, Irineu de Carvalho Filho, ByeongHwa Choi, Jaerim Choi, Mai Farid, Robert C. Feenstra, Taiji Furusawa, Gavin Gray, Theresa Greaney, Jota Ishikawa, Alain de Janvry, Naoto Jinji, Isao Kamata, Vera Kehayova, Kozo Kiyota, Vladimir Klyuev, Sumner La Croix, Chris Lane, Zhe Liu, Toshiyuki Matsuura, Ricardo Marto, Giovanni Melina, Christopher Meissner, Futoshi Narita, Ayako Obashi, Chris Papageorgiou, Saad Quayyum, Giovanni Peri, Keisaku Higashida, Deborah L. Swenson, Kiyoyasu Tanaka, Nori Tarui, and seminar/conference participants at the IMF, Fukushima University, University of Hawaii-Manoa, University of Idaho, the 15th Symposium on Econometric Theory and Applications at Osaka University, the 2019 Spring Meetings of the Japan Society of International Economics at the University of Kochi, and Asia-Pacific Trade Seminars at the University of Tokyo for comments and suggestions. All errors are ours.
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PY - 2022/2
Y1 - 2022/2
N2 - This paper investigates the effects of temperature on agricultural TFP growth rates during the period 1992–2015. We argue that higher temperatures impede TFP growth, particularly in low-income countries (LICs) using less imported inputs. Our estimates imply that a 1°C rise in annual average temperatures reduces TFP growth rates by 5.2 percentage points in the LICs in question. However, LICs using greater amounts of imported inputs are less affected by temperatures, suggesting a new source of gains from imported inputs mitigating the adverse effects of rising temperatures.
AB - This paper investigates the effects of temperature on agricultural TFP growth rates during the period 1992–2015. We argue that higher temperatures impede TFP growth, particularly in low-income countries (LICs) using less imported inputs. Our estimates imply that a 1°C rise in annual average temperatures reduces TFP growth rates by 5.2 percentage points in the LICs in question. However, LICs using greater amounts of imported inputs are less affected by temperatures, suggesting a new source of gains from imported inputs mitigating the adverse effects of rising temperatures.
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U2 - 10.1111/roie.12551
DO - 10.1111/roie.12551
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85122711146
SN - 0965-7576
VL - 30
SP - 34
EP - 56
JO - Review of International Economics
JF - Review of International Economics
IS - 1
ER -
