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Turkish voter response to government incompetence and corruption related to the 1999 earthquakes

Akarca, Ali T.; Tansel, Aysit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

The two major earthquakes which struck northwestern Turkey in 1999, caused enormous amounts of death and destruction, and exposed rampant government corruption involving construction and zoning code violations, as a factor magnifying the disaster. The opposition parties and one of the incumbent...

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Who Benefit from Cash and Food-for-Work Programs in Post-Earthquake Haiti?

Echevin, Damien; Lamanna, Francesca; Oviedo, Ana-Maria - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

In this paper, a unique post-earthquake survey designed to provide a rapid assessment of food insecurity in Haiti is … level of subsistence or because of earthquakerelated losses. Pre-earthquake participation to programs appears to be an … important determinant of post-earthquake participation. What is more, cash-forwork is very rarely declared as the main source of …

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Two Chapters on early history of the Munich Reinsurance Company: The Foundation/ The San Francisco Earthquake

Spree, Reinhard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

way the Munich Re dealt with the challenge of the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. …

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9/56 Year Cycle: Californian Earthquakes

McMinn, David - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

The 9/56 year cycle was first established in the timing of US and Western European financial panics since 1760. This cycle has also been assessed in the timing of major earthquakes in California - Nevada - Baja California. These important events tended to cluster within this grid, far more than...

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An Introduction to the Natural Disaster Vulnerability Evaluation Modeling (NDVE-Modeling): Theory and Application

Ruiz Estrada, M.A.; Park, D - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

The natural disasters have a potentially large impact on economic growth but measuring their economic impact is subject to a great deal of uncertainty. The central objective of our paper is to set forth a model – the natural disasters vulnerability evaluation modeling (NDVE-Modeling) – to...

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Effects of interactions among social capital, income, and learning from experiences of natural disasters: A case study from Japan

yamamura, eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

This paper explores how and the extent to which social capital has an effect on the damage resulting from natural disasters. It also examines whether the experience of a natural disaster affects individual and collective protection against future disasters. There are three major findings. (1)...

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Death tolls from natural disasters: Influence of interactions between fiscal decentralization, institution, and economic development

Yamamura, Eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Previous research shows that the effect of decentralization on damage caused by natural disasters will differ according a country’s level of economic development. To investigate this matter further, this paper uses cross-country data from 1990 to 2001 to examine how decentralization,...

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Experience of technological and natural disasters and their impact on the perceived risk of nuclear accidents after the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan 2011: A cross-country an...

Yamamura, Eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This paper uses cross-country data compiled immediately after the Fukushima nuclear accident to investigate how the 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...

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Effect of free media on views regarding nuclear energy after the Fukushima accident

Yamamura, Eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Using cross-country data, this paper investigates how governance influenced views regarding the security of nuclear energy after the Fukushima accident in Japan. Key findings are: (1) citizens are less likely to agree that nuclear power plants are properly secured against accidents with the...

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Institution and decomposition of natural-disaster impact on growth

Yamamura, Eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

We investigated whether natural disasters enhance efficiency improvement, capital accumulation, and technological progress. Furthermore, we examined whether the influence of natural disasters depends on the legal origin. By using long-term panel data, this paper decomposes productivity growth...

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