We survey the microeconomics literature that studies how firms in the developing world are adapting to extreme weather …

We provide the planner's solution to a model where households learn from exogenous natural disaster arrivals about … since disaster leads to pessimistic arrival-rate beliefs and taxes or mandates to fund mitigation, which reduce consumption …

pre-disaster trend, and do not recover within twenty years. Both rich and poor countries exhibit this response, with … suppression of annual growth rates spread across the fifteen years following disaster, generating large and significant cumulative … continuous exposure to disaster. Linking these results to projections of future cyclone activity, we estimate that under …

How do innovators respond to the shock of a natural disaster? Do natural disasters spur technical innovations that can …, droughts and flooding on the innovation of their respective mitigation technologies. Using patent and disaster data, our study …

such disasters and adapt to their increased frequency. We examine this issue using a the latest wave of the World …

the amount of resource rent that leaves the country) and economic development, considering the cases of democracy and … always benefit the incumbent, whether the country is a democracy or an autocracy. We then suggest that the relation between …