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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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COVID-19 Outbreak, Social Response, and Early Economic Effects : A Global VAR Analysis of Cross-Country Interdependencies
Milani, Fabio - 2020
This paper studies the social and economic responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in a large sample of countries. I stress, in particular, the importance of countries' interconnections to un-derstand the spread of the virus. I estimate a Global VAR model and exploit a dataset on existing social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012824578
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Green havens and pollution havens
Poelhekke, Steven; van der Ploeg, Rick - 2012
We test for pollution haven effects in outward foreign direct investment (FDI) for different sectors using a comprehensive and exhaustive dataset for outward FDI from the Netherlands, one of the most environmentally stringent countries and a major source of global FDI. Our evidence suggests that...
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892175
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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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Social Inequalities in Climate Change-Attributed Impacts of Hurrican Harvey
Smiley, Kevin T.; Noy, Ilan; Wehner, Michael; Frame, Dave; … - 2021
Climate change is already increasing the severity of extreme weather events such as with rainfall during hurricanes. But no research to date investigates if, and to what extent, there are social inequalities in current climate change-attributed flood impacts. Here, we use climate change...
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