Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 612
Cover Image
No Price Like Home: Global House Prices, 1870-2012
Knoll, Katharina; Schularick, Moritz; Steger, Thomas - 2014
How have house prices evolved in the long-run? This paper presents annual house price indices for 14 advanced economies since 1870. Based on extensive data collection, we are able to show for the first time that house prices in most industrial economies stayed constant in real terms from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010420724
Cover Image
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012018202
Cover Image
How Shocks Affect International Reserves? A Quasi-Experiment of Earthquakes
Jinjarak, Yothin; Noy, Ilan; Ta, Quy - 2020
response of international reserves to shocks by using a quasi-experimental setup and focusing on earthquakes. The estimation is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012314919
Cover Image
Quantifying the Demand, Supply, and Welfare Effects of Natural Disasters Using Monthly Trade Data
Felbermayr, Gabriel J.; Gröschl, Jasmin Katrin; Heid, … - 2020
intensity of earthquakes and storms. We find large negative effects for heavily indebted poor, least developed or landlocked …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012425704
Cover Image
The Fiscal Costs of Earthquakes in Japan
Noy, Ilan; Okubo, Toshihiro; Strobl, Eric; Tveit, Thomas - 2021
We investigate the fiscal impacts of earthquakes in Japan. In contrast with earlier papers from elsewhere which examine … and unaffected by the damage from earthquakes. Besides the obvious - that government spending increases in the short …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012582133
Cover Image
Natural Disasters and Regional Development - the Case of Earthquakes
Fabian, Marius - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892078
Cover Image
Redrawing of a Housing Market : Insurance Payouts and Housing Market Recovery in the Wake of the Christchurch Earthquake of 2011
Nguyen, Cuong - 2020
On the 22nd of February 2011, much of the residential housing stock in the city of Christchurch, New Zealand, was 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012822499
Cover Image
How Shocks Affect International Reserves? A Quasi-Experiment of Earthquakes
Jinjarak, Yothin; Noy, Ilan; Ta, Quy - 2021
response of international reserves to shocks by using a quasi-experimental setup and focusing on earthquakes. The estimation is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315174
Cover Image
The Effects of the 2010 Haiti Earthquake on Children's Nutrition and Education
Dodlova, Marina; Escobar, Michelle; Grimm, Michael - 2023
the earthquake’s aftermath. This aid mitigated but could not fully prevent the adverse effects on children’s health and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014347786
Cover Image
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014347828