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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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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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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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Autocorrelation in economic indicators before and after Natural Disaster

Hasan, Syed Akif; Subhani, Muhammad Imtiaz; Osman, Ms. Amber - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

a data for the period of 1989-2005 for before earthquake and second has a data for the period of 2006-2009 for after … earthquake. The findings of this paper reveal that all of the major economical players of Pakistan as stated above do follow the …

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Assessment of Natural Disasters in Vietnam’s Northern Mountains

Do, Trang; Nguyen, Cuong; Phung, Tung - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This study presents risk assessment of natural disasters in the poor provinces in Northern Mountain of Vietnam. We construct an Aggregate Risk Index that is a composite index comprising of three separate components: the Hazard Potential Index, Hazard Exposure Index and Coping Capacity Index....

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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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Regional Development for a Disastrous Country

Brata, Aloysius Gunadi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between social and economic factors on the economic loss and number of victims of natural disaster occurring in Indonesia using a pooled data from 2004 to 2008 of all provinces. This study found income as measured by GDRP per capita have...

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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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LEARNING EFFECT AND SOCIAL CAPITAL: A CASE STUDY OF NATURAL DISASTER FROM JAPAN

yamamura, eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

Using Japanese prefecture level data for the years between 1988 and 2001, 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...

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