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Government Spending and Tax Revenue Decentralization and Public Sector Efficiency : Do Natural Disasters Matter?
Afonso, António; Jalles, João Tovar; Venâncio, Ana - 2023
We assess notably how do extreme events affect the public sector efficiency of decentralized governance. Hence, we empirically link the public sector efficiency scores, to tax revenue and spending decentralization. First, we compute government spending efficiency scores via data envelopment...
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Government Repression and the Death Toll from Natural Disasters
Costa, Samia - 2012
, however, could also play a role in disaster preparedness. In particular, I examine whether governments that are deemed to be … investment in disaster preparedness. I find an inverse U-shaped relationship between repression and casualties, with countries at …
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Macroeconomics and the Environment : A Selective Survey
Sen, Partha - 2020
Macroeconomics deals with economics at the aggregate level. This could be at a national level or the interaction between nations. Production of output necessarily involves pollution and degrading the environment. Therefore, environmental issues enter inevitably. Some problems that have been...
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Environmental Economics : The 50th Anniversary of the Birth of this Field around the First Earth Day
Fullerton, Don - 2020
How was the birth of "Environmental Economics" related to the first Earth Day fifty years ago (April 22, 1970)? This short note introduces some ideas about an amazing burst of intellectual activity from 1968 to 1974. Environmental economics was not a field of economics before this brief period,...
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The Political Economy of Coastal Development
Magontier, Pierre; Sole-Olle, Albert; Marsal, Elisabet … - 2021
We study the role of political parties as facilitators of intergovernmental cooperation regarding the development of coastal land. Slowing down this development has benefits (e.g., preservation of environmental amenities) and costs (e.g., job losses), not only for residents in the political...
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The Determinants of Subnational Public Spending Allocation for Disaster Risk Reduction in Bangladesh
Karim, Azreen - 2020
disaster risk reduction and climate adaptation in Bangladesh, a country with a very high exposure to weather risk. We use a … comprehensive dataset for the 483 sub-districts (Upazilas) in Bangladesh, tracking disaster risk reduction and adaptation funding … does proximity to the centres of Dhaka and Chittagong. Public spending for adaptive disaster risk reduction, as …
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Natural Disasters and Regional Development - the Case of Earthquakes
Fabian, Marius - 2019
entire world for the period 1992-2013 we find that earthquakes reduce both light growth rates and light levels significantly …
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Natural Disasters, Moral Hazard, and Special Interests in Congress
Kaplan, Carol - 2019
accountability and politicians’ support for special interests. We show that, in the immediate aftermath of a disaster, the evening …
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Financial Market Responses to a Natural Disaster : Evidence from Local Credit Networks and the Indian Ocean Tsunami
Czura, Kristina - 2019
Savings and Credit Associations (Roscas), a popular group-based financial institution world-wide, in the aftermath of the 2004 … disaster to different extents, we estimate the causal effect of this devastating economic shock on financial flows between …
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Reversible Environmental Catastrophes with Disconnected Generations
Heijdra, Ben J. - 2019
We study environmental policy in an economy-ecology model featuring multiple deterministic stable steady-state ecological equilibria. The economy-ecology does not settle in either of the deterministic steady states as the environmental system is hit by random shocks. Individual live for two...
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