Bergeijk, Peter A.G. van; Lazzaroni, Lazzaroni, S. - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2013
We systematize recent macroeconomic empirical literature on the direct and indirect impact of natural disasters providing a meta-analysis of 20 studies published during 2002-2013. We show that the disagreement between these studies is caused by the empirical design, the estimation technique and...