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Skidmore, Mark (ed.) - 2022

-edge Handbook presents a timely analysis of the conditions that reduce or exacerbate disaster impacts. Addressing developments in … research on disaster economics, internationally recognized scholars explore the role of both the private and public sectors in … disasters on economic activity, including the behavioral consequences, biases and heuristics, and risk preferences. Delving …

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The economics of environmental risk : information, perception and valuation

Smith, Vincent Kerry - 2022

"Featuring real world examples of how risk information affects public choices, The Economics of Environmental Risk … by officials providing information on risk and designing policies for managing them. Further consideration is also given … public policy, risk analysis and environmental and resource economics will value the useful examples found in this …

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Economic and natural disasters since 1900 : a comparative history

Singleton, John - 2016

1. The disaster cycle -- 2. Hurricane Katrina : a classic natural disaster -- 3. The first World War -- 4. The Great …A crisis is a period of uncertainty that may or may not lead to disaster, depending in part on the capacity of actors … Eurozone upheavals this timely book argues that the disaster cycle - a framework normally used in the context of natural …

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Effective federalism and local finance

Ahmad, Ehtisham - 2011

Economic Review, 42, 583-92 -- Timothy J. Goodspeed and Andrew Haughwout (2007), 'On the Optimal Design of Disaster Insurance …

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Aggregate demand, inequality and instability

Ferri, Piero - 2016

1. Introduction -- Part I: basic concepts -- 2. Piketty's contribution -- 3. Measurement -- 4. Inequality and aggregate demand -- Part II: endogenous dynamics and instability -- 5. Aggregate demand, growth and instability -- 6. Wealth, public debt and instability -- 7. Recursive workhorses --...

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Financial crises and recession in the global economy

Allen, Roy E. - 2016 - 4th ed

, increased the risk of crisis, and created and transferred wealth from periphery to core regions. This book presents some new …

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Financial stability in practice : towards an uncertain future

Goodhart, Charles Albert Eric; Tsomocos, Dimitrios P. - 2012

The maintenance of financial stability is a key objective of monetary policy, but the record of regulators in achieving this has been lamentable in recent years. This failure has been matched by an equivalent inability to establish an appropriate theoretical basis for financial regulation. In...

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Financial crises and recession in the global economy

Allen, Roy E. - 2023 - Fifth edition

"In this incisive fifth edition of Financial Crises and Recession in the Global Economy, Roy E. Allen examines the major financial instabilities, crises, and evolutionary trends since the 1970s and through the recent Covid-19 pandemic. Providing empirical research on the relation between money...

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Reflections on the Great Depression

Parker, Randall E. - 2002

This book explores the most prominent economic explanations of the Great Depression and how it affected the lives, experiences, and subsequent thinking of economists who lived through that era. Presented in interview format, this collection of conversations with Moses Abramovitz, Morris Adelman,...

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Entrepreneurship in recession

Parker, Simon C. - 2011

(1), March, 14-31 -- Adriano A. Rampini (2004), 'Entrepreneurial Activity, Risk, and the Business Cycle', Journal of …

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