Wolfram Schlenker
Environmental Economics
Sunday, August 3, 2014
2014 - colder and slightly wetter than average US growing conditions
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Futures prices for corn have been decreasing a lot - for example the December 2014 contract for corn has decreased by more than 25% between ...
Saturday, April 12, 2014
Daily weather data: original vs knock-off
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Any study that focuses on nonlinear temperature effects requires precise estimates of the exact temperature distribution. Unfortunately, m...
Thursday, January 2, 2014
Massetti et al. - Part 3 of 3: Comparison of Degree Day Measures
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Yesterday's blog entry outlined the differences between Massetti et al. derivation of degree days and our own. To quickly recap: Our m...
Wednesday, January 1, 2014
Massetti et al. - Part 2 of 3: Calculation of Degree Days
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Following up on yesterday's post , let's look at the differences in how to calculate degree days. Recall that degree days just coun...
Tuesday, December 31, 2013
Massetti et al. - Part 1 of 3: Convergence in the Effect of Warming on US Agriuclture
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Emanuele Massetti has posted a new paper (joined with Robert Mendelsohn and Shun Chonabayashi ) that takes another look at the best cl...
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Yet another way of estimating the damaging effects of extreme heat on yields
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Following up on Max's post on the damaging effects of extreme heat, here is yet another way of looking at it. So far, my coauthor Mic...
Friday, August 10, 2012
US Corn Yields
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USDA today announced its forecast for corn yields . It might be fun to compare those forecast to one using a statistical model of corn yie...
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