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-surplus regions suggest that in situations where all producers are subjected to a common source of risk (e.g. rainfall): I …
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experience of such disasters affects the perception of the risk of nuclear accidents. Estimation results show that the perceived … risk of a nuclear accident is positively associated with experiencing technological disasters but not with that of natural …
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disaster outcomes. Using panel data from 98 countries, this paper examines how public sector corruption is associated with the …
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into the future. It proposes sound principles of risk management that make sense in today's society generally, going beyond … them, it deals with different aspects of the theory of risk-bearing. I explain current responses to global change, focusing …
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disaster outcomes. Using panel data from 98 countries, this paper examines how public sector corruption is associated with the …
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This paper uses inter-country panel data obtained during the period 1990 to 2010 to examine how the occurrence of natural disasters has affected corruption within the public sector. There are a number of major findings from this study. (1) Natural disasters lead to corruption within the public...
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. Using non-European country data, this paper investigates the effect of legal origin on natural disaster death tolls from … 1960 to 2008, and on the two periods 1960–1989 and 1990–2008. The key findings are that natural disaster death tolls are … role of legal origin, in reducing the level of damage in a disaster, changes according to technological progress. …
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Following Max Weber, many theories have hypothesized that Protestantism should have favored economic development. With its religious heterogeneity, the Holy Roman Empire presents an ideal testing ground for this hypothesis. Using population figures of 272 cities in the years 1300–1900, I find...
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exploit the fact that missionaries purposefully undertook disaster relief work to gain the trust of the local people. Thus, we …
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The article analyzes the basic definitions of emergencies, disasters, elements and technological accidents. It gives the characteristics of the main consequences of disasters and offers an algorithm for the economic evaluation of these effects.
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