(increase) world interest rates but also to increase (reduce) private leverage. This in turn increased (decreased) volatility in …

cyclical pattern. Over that cycle, world asset prices, leverage, and capital flows move in concert with global growth …

We study the daily behavior of supermarket prices and product availability following two recent natural disasters: the … 2010 earthquake in Chile and the 2011 earthquake in Japan. In both cases there was an immediate and persistent effect on … product availability. The number of goods available for sale fell 32% in Chile and 17% in Japan from the day of the disaster …

such disasters and adapt to their increased frequency. We examine this issue using a the latest wave of the World …Climate change is making natural disasters more frequent, yet little is known about the capacity of firms to withstand … with geocoded data on natural disasters and previous WMS waves, we create a panel spanning 8,000 firms across 33 countries …

predictors of the financial and trade shock during the crisis. The severity of the financial shock was further exacerbated by … financial ties to the U.S., while the trade shock was more severe in EMs with a larger commodity export share …