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The climate change impacts on sea level rise and coastal disasters, and the possible adaptation responses have been studied using very different approaches, such as very detailed site-specific engineering studies and global macroeconomic assessments of costal zones vulnerability. This paper...
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Coastal flooding, exacerbated by sea level rise, is a considerable economic threat to low-lying regions. I investigate whether investors account and insure for this hazard by exploiting the heterogeneity of country exposure to current and future coastal floods. Using sovereign credit default...
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Recent hurricanes and other severe coastal weather have caused substantial property damage, which, in turn, has increased insurance rates and made insurance difficult to obtain in some locales. This Report suggests that subsidizing the cost of insurance by creating a federal wind insurance...
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effects on the macroeconomy. Research on disaster risks has also actively been pursued in the macroeconomic models of climate … change. Our paper uses insights from the former work to study disaster risks in the macroeconomics of climate change and to … spell out policy needs. Empirically, the link between carbon dioxide emission and the frequency of climate related disaster …
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?ects on the macroecon-omy. Research on disaster risks has also actively been pursued in the macroeconomic models of climate … change. Our paper uses insights from the former work to study disaster risks in the macroeconomics of climate change and to … spell out policy needs. Empirically the link between carbon dioxide emission and the frequency of climate re-lated disaster …
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This paper evaluates whether mangroves can mitigate the impact of hurricanes on economic activity. The paper assembles a new, regionwide panel data set that measures local economic activity using nightlights, potential hurricane damages using a detailed hurricane windstorm model, and mangrove...
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