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Natural Disasters and the Effect of Trade on Income : A New Panel IV Approach
Felbermayr, Gabriel J. - 2011
Does trade openness cause higher GDP per capita? Since the seminal instrumental variables (IV) estimates of Frankel and Romer [F&R](1999) important doubts have surfaced. Is the correlation spurious and driven by omitted geographical and institutional variables? In this paper, we generalize F&R's...
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Decentralization and Natural Disasters
Goodspeed, Timothy - 2013
disaster. The paper concludes by reflecting on what we know about whether policies to confront natural disasters should be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013083868
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The Tempest : Natural Disasters, Early Shocks and Children's Short- and Long-Run Development
Deuchert, Eva - 2013
Economic theory predicts that adverse shocks during early childhood have detrimental short- and long-run consequences for children's development. We examine this hypothesis by analyzing the short-and long-run effects on children's health and education of a specific shock: housing damages caused...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013083878
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Naturally Negative : The Growth Effects of Natural Disasters
Felbermayr, Gabriel J. - 2013
literature does not offer conclusive evidence. Most existing studies use disaster data drawn from damage records of insurance … GDP. We build a comprehensive database of disaster events and their intensities from primary geophysical and … effect of disasters on growth. The worst 5% disaster years come with a growth damage of at least 0.45 percentage points. That …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013073607
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On Welfare Frameworks and Catastrophic Climate Risks
Millner, Antony - 2021
Recent theoretical work in the economics of climate change has suggested that climate policy is highly sensitive to ‘fat-tailed’ risks of catastrophic outcomes (Weitzman, 2009b). Such risks are suggested to be an inevitable consequence of scientific uncertainty about the effects of increased...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315705
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Do Natural Disasters Enhance Societal Trust?
Toya, Hideki; Skidmore, Mark - 2021
devastating human and economic impacts, a potential spillover benefit of greater disaster exposure may be a more tightly knit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315874
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Shedding Light on the Spatial Diffusion of Disasters
Felbermayr, Gabriel J. - 2018
spatial shifts of economic activity after a natural disaster are a rather local phenomenon, stressing the importance of local …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912423
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Model Averaging in Risk Management with an Application to Futures Markets
Pesaran, M. Hashem; Schleicher, Christoph; Zaffaroni, Paolo - 2021
This paper considers the problem of model uncertainty in the case of multi-asset volatility models and discusses the use of model averaging techniques as a way of dealing with the risk of inadvertently using false models in portfolio management. Evaluation of volatility models is then considered...
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Climate Policy Enhances Efficiency : A Macroeconomic Portfolio Effect
Siegmeier, Jan - 2015
Carbon pricing regulates emission flows and collects rents from underlying fossil resource stocks. The resulting investment shift implies lower climate policy costs and improved welfare if capital is underaccumulated. We prove that under emission trading, such a beneficial macroeconomic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013029498
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Using Bankruptcy to Reduce Foreclosures : Does Strip-Down of Mortgages Affect the Supply of Mortgage Credit?
Li, Wenli - 2014
We assess the credit market impact of allowing mortgage “strip-down” as a foreclosure-prevention measure, where strip-down reduces the principal of underwater residential mortgages to the current market value of the property for homeowners in Chapter 13 bankruptcy. Our identification is...
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