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GTAP Resource #7695

"Economy-wide and international spillovers of the economic impacts of climate change"
by Chepeliev, Maksym, Dominique van der Mensbrugghe and Toon Vandyck


Abstract
Estimates of the economic consequences of climate change diverge widely and are influenced
by methodological choices. Here, we explore different approaches to quantifying economic
damages by leveraging a structural model of the global economy. We decompose macroeconomic
outcomes by region, factor, and sector to reveal differences between top-down aggregate
productivity shocks and a bottom-up representation of impact channels. While aggregate
economic outcomes are comparable, region-specific results differ substantially between
approaches at the tails of the distribution, driven by divergent international trade responses.
Allowing for economic adaptation in production and trade flows, our findings indicate that
international spillovers raise global welfare losses from climate change by 1-6% relative to
the sum of domestic impacts. Overall, our results suggest that a disaggregated representation
of climate change impact channels is important for improving the understanding of
aggregate economic outcomes and for informing effective adaptation policies that account
for international trade spillovers.


Resource Details () GTAP Keywords
Category: 2026 Conference Paper
Status: Not published
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Date: 2026
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Created: Chepeliev, M. (4/1/2026)
Updated: Chepeliev, M. (4/1/2026)
Visits: 6
- Climate impacts
- Economic growth
- Dynamic modeling
- Not Applicable


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