Quantifying Economic & Financial Impacts of Droughts Abstract

S. Dees, P. Tankov, O. D. Zerbib

Project goals

Small economies (e.g., island states) are highly exposed to hydrometeorological shocks. The goal of the project is to propose a tractable model that links (i) a low-dimensional  water-balance model, (ii) an input--output (IO) model for the propagation of water shortages across sectors, and (iii) macro-financial dynamics mapping GDP and fiscal responses into sovereign default risk. The aim is to generate drought stress scenarios suitable for policy analysis and climate stress testing).

Project domain: Natural resource economics, sustainable finance

This project is proposed in the framework of the chair "Modeling of economic and financial nature-related risks", sponsored by Banque de France