Extreme Heat and Directed Innovation

AERE@ASSA 2026

Can economies innovate their way out of climate trouble? I provide the first systematic evidence outside agriculture that firms adapt to extreme heat through directed technological change. Linking firm-level data with patent records for nine EU …

AERE@SEA 2025

Can economies innovate their way out of climate trouble? I provide the first systematic evidence outside agriculture that firms adapt to extreme heat through directed technological change. Linking firm-level data with patent records for nine EU …