Even before the Great Recession, U.S. employment growth was unimpressive. Between 2000 and 2007, the economy gave back … the considerable employment gains achieved during the 1990s, with a historic contraction in manufacturing employment being … force behind both recent reductions in U.S. manufacturing employment and-through input-output linkages and other general …

general, dairy farmers "benefit" more from drought events when compared to sheep/beef farms, whereas the latter sector has …

We estimate the causal effect of the Indian Ocean tsunami in Sri Lanka on household income and consumption eight years … increases in household income and consumption in the long-term emerged from our empirical investigation. Deviating from the … nuanced picture with respect to household consumption impacts. We observe a reduction of food consumption and only find an …

change. Based on a household survey we conducted in Tuvalu, we quantify the impacts of Tropical Cyclone Pam (March 2015) on …

In 2011, Thailand experienced its worst flood ever. Using repeated waves of the Thai Household Survey, we analyse the …

How do financial development and financial integration interact? We focus on Japan's Great Recession after 1990 to … reference to prefectures' different historical pathways to financial development. After Japan's opening to trade in the 19th …, the main export hub for silk, provided silk reelers with trade loans. Many regional banks in Japan were founded as local …

We investigate the fiscal impacts of earthquakes in Japan. In contrast with earlier papers from elsewhere which examine …