The Great Tōhoku-Earthquake and the following nuclear meltdown in Fukushima called the world's attention to Japans …

. Exploiting the panel structure of the data, we document that the occurrence of an earthquake retarded institutional transition …

We measure the longer-term effect of a major earthquake on the local economy, using night-time light intensity measured … process. We focus on the destructive Canterbury Earthquake Sequence (CES) 2010 -2011 as our case study. Uniquely for this … economic recovery after the earthquake, but delayed payments were less affective and cash settlement of claims were more …

occurring local floods and droughts impose a significant risk to health when individuals are exposed directly to these hazards …

We study adaptation to climate change in a federalist setting. To protect themselves against an increase in flood risk …

compensation. Still, the biggest risk may be that the equilibrium mix between Voice and Exit is unstable and that the transition …

We estimate the causal effect of the Indian Ocean tsunami in Sri Lanka on household income and consumption eight years … after the event, using a quasi-experimental method. A strong association between area-wide tsunami disaster shock and …-lasting potentially successful recovery scenarios. Still, Sri Lanka received a very large amount of external transfers post-tsunami, much …

-probability extreme events on environmental policy in a continuous-time real options model with “tail risk”. In a nutshell, our results … indicate the importance of tail risk and call for foresighted pre-emptive climate policies …