This paper investigates the critical role of religion in the economic recovery after high-impact natural disasters … religious adherence rates saw a significantly stronger recovery in terms of productivity for 2005-2010. Our results further … suggest that a particular religious denomination does not drive the effect. We observe that different aspects of religion …

disaster. Religious adherence further dampens anxiety after Hurricane Katrina, which potentially spur economic recovery. We …This paper investigates the critical role of culture for economic recovery after natural disasters. Using Hurricane … Katrina as our laboratory, we find a significant adverse treatment effect for plant-level productivity. However, local …

This paper investigates the critical role of religion in the economic recovery after high-impact natural disasters … religious adherence rates saw a significantly stronger recovery in terms of productivity for 2005-2010. Our results further … suggest that a particular religious denomination does not drive the effect. We observe that different aspects of religion …

policy response to a natural disaster. We show that the standard Taylor (1993) rule response in models with and without … response to a disaster. A nominal interest rate increase following a disaster mitigates both temporary inflation effects and …

The standard approach to 'nowcast' disaster impacts, which relies on risk models, does not typically account for the … nowcasting, and for post-disaster damage assessment. We focus on Fiji and on its agriculture sector, and on tropical cyclones … be used for both nowcasting and post-disaster damage assessments. …

choice of baseline and of the wind-speed elasticity of storm damage. -- climate change ; tropical storms ; economic impact …

concerned play in the observed increase in losses. For analysis purposes, storm loss is depicted as a function of the value of … material assets affected by the storm (the capital stock) and storm intensity. The findings show the increase in losses due to … cyclones ; climate change ; socio-economic impact ; storm damage function …