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Do Natural Disasters Enhance Societal Trust?
Toya, Hideki; Skidmore, Mark - 2021
In this paper we investigate the long- and short-run relationships between disasters and societal trust. A growing body research suggests that factors such as income inequality, ethnic fractionalization, and religious heritage are important determinants of social capital in general, and trust in...
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Did the Japanese Patient Follow the Doctor's Orders? Mostly No! A Public Choice Analysis of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Schemes in Japan Before and after the Earthquake
Rudolph, Sven - 2013
The Great Tōhoku-Earthquake and the following nuclear meltdown in Fukushima called the world's attention to Japans …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013092105
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Measuring the Impact of Insurance on Urban Recovery with Light : The 2010-2011 New Zealand Earthquakes
Cuong, Nguyen Van - 2018
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012915610
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Migration and Climate Change in Rural Africa
Cattaneo, Cristina - 2015
We analyse whether migration is an adaptation that households employ to cope with climate in Ghana and Nigeria. If migration is part of the present adaptation portfolio of households in developing countries, it is reasonable to expect that it will also be an adaptation to future climate change....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013026677
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Global Warming and Extreme Events : Rethinking the Timing and Intensity of Environmental Policy
Chen, Yu-Fu - 2010
The possibility of low-probability extreme events has reignited the debate over the optimal intensity and timing of climate policy. In this paper we therefore contribute to the literature by assessing the implications of low-probability extreme events on environmental policy in a continuous-time...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139799
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121825
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Decentralization and Natural Disasters
Goodspeed, Timothy - 2013
This paper surveys recent research on decentralization and natural disasters. The first part discusses results from theoretical models that have been used to study the issues that arise when natural disasters occur in a country with more than one level of government. The next section discusses...
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
Growth theory predicts that natural disasters should, on impact, lower GDP per capita. However, the empirical literature does not offer conclusive evidence. Most existing studies use disaster data drawn from damage records of insurance companies. We argue that this may lead to estimation bias as...
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The Ethical Content of the Economic Analysis of Disasters : Price Gouging and Post-Disaster Recovery
Noy, Ilan - 2017
Economics, generally, is a discipline in which relatively little attention is devoted to language and terminology. As such, economists have not really attempted to define the concept of disasters very carefully, nor have they evaluated the ethics that are behind the economic analysis of...
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