response of international reserves to shocks by using a quasi-experimental setup and focusing on earthquakes. The estimation is … 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 …

response of international reserves to shocks by using a quasi-experimental setup and focusing on earthquakes. The estimation is … 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 …

entire world for the period 1992-2013 we find that earthquakes reduce both light growth rates and light levels significantly …We analyze the impact of earthquakes on nighttime lights at a sub-national level, i.e. on grids of different size. We … argue that existing studies on the impact of natural disasters on economic development have several important limitations …

This study provides new causal evidence for the impact of a large-scale natural disaster on local economic activity in … 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 …

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 …

the earthquake’s aftermath. This aid mitigated but could not fully prevent the adverse effects on children’s health and …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 …