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Do Natural Disasters Stimulate Individual Saving? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in a Highly Developed Country

Berlemann, Michael; Steinhardt, Max; Tutt, Jascha - 2015

While various empirical studies have found negative growth-effects of natural disasters, little is yet known about the microeconomic channels through which disasters might affect short- and especially long-term growth. This paper contributes to filling this gap in the literature by studying how...

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Natural Disasters and Regional Development - The Case of Earthquakes

Fabian, Marius; Leßmann, Christian; Sofke, Tim - 2019

We analyze the impact of earthquakes on nighttime lights at a sub-national level, i.e. on grids of different size. We … geophysical event data on earthquakes together with satellite nighttime lights. Using panel fixed effects regressions covering the … 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 and Regional Development - the Case of Earthquakes

Fabian, Marius - 2019

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The Impact of a Large-Scale Natural Disaster on Local Economic Activity : Evidence from the 2003 Bam Earthquake in Iran

Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Fischer, Sven - 2023

This study provides new causal evidence for the impact of a large-scale natural disaster on local economic activity in Iran using nighttime light intensity. We apply the synthetic control method (SCM) and nighttime light (NTL) data from 1992 to 2020 for 31 provinces and 429 counties to study the...

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Measurement of Economic Welfare Risk and Resilience of the Philippine Regions

Yonson, Rio; Noy, Ilan - 2018

risk from riverine floods. While there are similarities in the ranking of policies among regions with comparable levels of …

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Floods and spillovers: households after the 2011 great flood in Thailand

Noy, Ilan; Nguyen, Cuong; Patel, Pooja - 2019

flood’s economic impacts. In 2012, households answered a set of questions on the extent of flooding they experienced. We use …. We also analyse the flood’s impacts across different socio-economic groups. …

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Measuring the Economic Risk of Epidemics

Noy, Ilan; Doan, Nguyen; Ferrarini, Benno; Park, Donghyun - 2019

We measure the economic risk of epidemics at a geo-spatially detailed resolution. In addition to data about the epidemic hazard prediction, we use data from 2014-2019 to compute measures for exposure, vulnerability, and resilience of the local economy to the shock of an epidemic. Using a battery...

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Measuring the Economic Risk of Covid-19

Noy, Ilan; Doan, Nguyen; Ferrarini, Benno; Park, Donghyun - 2020

We measure the economic risk of Covid-19 at a geo-spatially detailed resolution. In addition to data about the current prevalence of confirmed cases, we use data from 2014-2018 and a conceptual disaster risk model to compute measures for exposure, vulnerability, and resilience of the local...

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Social Distancing and the Economic Impact of Covid-19 in the United States

Bürgi, Constantin; Gorgulu, Nisan - 2020

This study documents how the demographics of new infections and mortality changed over time across US counties. We ﬁnd that counties with a larger population share aged above 60 were hit harder initially in terms of both cases and mortality in March and April while counties with a larger...

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The Economic Impacts of a Pandemic: What Happened after SARS in 2003?

Doan, Nguyen; Nguyen, Canh Phuc; Noy, Ilan; Sawada, Yasuyuki - 2020

This study quantifies the economic impacts of SARS on the four affected Asian economies and the two most affected Chinese regions using synthetic control methods with macroeconomic and remote-sensing nightlight data. For the four affected economies (China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore), we...

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