The Social Value of Hurricane Forecasts

Funding for this project was provided by Grant NA20OAR4320472 from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. This manuscript benefited from discussions by Jeff Shrader and Manuel Linsenmeier, and comments from Christopher Costello, Gabriel Lade, Derek Lemoine, Cynthia Lin-Lawell, Antony Millner, Christopher Parmeter, Christopher Timmins, and Jinhua Zhao, as well as from feedback by seminar participants at Cornell University, St. John’s University, the University of Miami, the Colorado Environmental Economics Workshop, the Kansas City Fed, the Northeast Environmental Workshop, the Occasional Workshop, the Seminar Series of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the Summer Conference of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.