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Natural disasters and regional development : the case of earthquakes

Fabian, Marius; Lessmann, Christian; Sofke, Tim - 2019

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, both at the level of the outcome variable - usually...

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Growth and mitigation policies with uncertain climate damage

Bretschger, Lucas; Vinogradova, Alexandra - 2014

Climate physics predicts that the intensity of natural disasters will increase in the future due to climate change. We present a stochastic model of a growing economy where natural disasters are multiple and random, with damages driven by the economy's polluting activity. We provide a...

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Long-term growth effects of natural disasters : empirical evidence for droughts

Berlemann, Michael; Wenzel, Daniela - 2015

The ongoing process of climate change goes along with a higher frequency and/or severity of droughts. While the short-term growth consequences of droughts are comparatively well examined, little research has yet been devoted to the question whether and how droughts affect medium and long-term...

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The economic and fiscal burdens of disasters in the Pacific

Noy, Ilan; Edmonds, Christopher M. - 2016

The Pacific Islands face the highest disaster risk, in per capita terms, globally. Examples of catastrophic events in … analysing the applicability of various financial instruments to facilitate both ex-ante and ex-post disaster risk management in …

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The ethical content of the economic analysis of disasters : price gouging and post-disaster recovery

Noy, Ilan; Noy, Shakked - 2016

research on the topic of disasters. As such, we choose to focus on two topics: price gouging, and post-disaster economic …

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Measurement of economic welfare risk and resilience of the Philippine regions

Yonson, Rio; Noy, Ilan - 2018

effectively addressed. Overall, the results indicate that reduction of adverse disaster impacts, including welfare losses, and …

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The social value of predicting hurricanes

Molina, Renato; Rudik, Ivan - 2022

Hurricanes are among the costliest natural disasters in the world, with a significant portion of their impact linked to the accuracy of their forecasts. In this paper, we estimate the economic impacts of the official hurricane forecasts in the US and develop a new approach for measuring the...

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Demand for multi-year catastrophe insurance contracts : experimental evidence for mitigating the insurance gap

Dudek, Thomas; Ulm, Eric R.; Noy, Ilan - 2021

People often fail to insure against catastrophes, even when insurance is subsidized. Even when insuring homes, many homeowners still underinsure the full value of their assets. Some researchers have suggested using long-term insurance contracts to reduce these insurance gaps. We examine...

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Fifty years of U.S. natural disaster insurance policy

Marcoux, Kendra; Wagner, Katherine R. H. - 2023

of natural disaster insurance in adapting to climate change. This chapter reviews current challenges in both public and … private natural disaster insurance markets in the United States and how the nature of these challenges has changed over the … complicate both the supply of and demand for natural disaster insurance, with spillovers to related markets such as real estate …

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Global warming and extreme events : rethinking the timing and intensity of environmental policy

Chen, Yu-Fu; Funke, Michael - 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...

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