Two Essays on Agriculture, Trade, and Climate Change

In the thesis, I present two research articles that connect different branches of the vast economic discipline, namely, agricultural, international trade, and climate economics. In the first chapter, I present the paper "Climate Instability, Weather Shocks, and Agricultural Production", coauthored with my supervisor Prof. Alessandro Olper. Here, we follow the climate-economy literature that uses econometric methods to assess the impact of climate change on economic activities to quantify the climate-driven consequences in global agricultural production caused by future climatic changes. In the second chapter, I present the paper "Adaptation to Climate Change through Market Integration: Evidence from Agricultural Trade in the EU", which constitutes the single-author article of the thesis. Here, I analyze the role of trade and market integration as an adaptation mechanism to cope with climate change.