damaged by an unusually destructive earthquake. Almost all of the houses were insured. We ask whether insurance was able to … mitigate the damage adequately, or whether the damage from the earthquake, and the associated insurance payments, led to a … data sets: All housing market transactions, all earthquake insurance claims submitted to the public insurer, and all of the …

We investigate the fiscal impacts of earthquakes in Japan. In contrast with earlier papers from elsewhere which examine …

done on a panel of 103 countries over the period 1979–2016. We find that in the five years following a large earthquake (i …) countries exposed accumulate reserves, for precautionary reasons, (ii) trade openness is positively associated with the post-earthquake …/or inflation targeting regimes, and (iv) the patterns of reserves holding post-earthquake vary with a country’s income level …

We assess the impact of the 2010 Haiti earthquake on children’s nutrition and education. We combine geo-coded shaking … intensity data with four waves of the Haiti Demographic Health Survey, two administered before and two after the earthquake. We … find lasting negative impacts of the earthquake on children’s stunting and wasting as well as on school enrolment and …

to 2020 for 31 provinces and 429 counties to study the impact of the 2003 Bam earthquake in the Iranian Kerman Province … statistically significant boost in economic activity in the years following the earthquake. This increase in local economic activity … this period, the cultural importance of Bam, the severity of the earthquake, and the media attention. Additionally …