Using an economic model to assess welfare risk and resilience to disasters, this paper systematically tackles the … losses at the microeconomic level. Apart from the prioritization of regions based on resilience and welfare risk, we identify … risk from riverine floods. While there are similarities in the ranking of policies among regions with comparable levels of …

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 …

to 2020 for 31 provinces and 429 counties to study the impact of the 2003 Bam earthquake in the Iranian Kerman Province … statistically significant boost in economic activity in the years following the earthquake. This increase in local economic activity … this period, the cultural importance of Bam, the severity of the earthquake, and the media attention. Additionally …

We assess the impact of the 2010 Haiti earthquake on children's nutrition and education. We combine geo-coded shaking … intensity data with four waves of the Haiti Demographic Health Survey, two administered before and two after the earthquake. We … find lasting negative impacts of the earthquake on children's stunting and wasting as well as on school enrolment and …

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 …

Estimating the impact of risk aversion on emigration at the individual level is complicated by selection issues. In … this paper, we use original data from Albania on mobility intentions and elicited risk aversion to provide causal estimates … unambiguously led to upward shifts in risk aversion as shown in a companion paper (Beine et al., 2021). While OLS estimates fail to …

countries via trade linkages. We apply our model to quantify the effects of the 1992 earthquake in Nicaragua, a small, heavily … indebted poor country, and the 2011 Tohoku earthquake in Japan, a large developed economy. We find that spillovers are …

damaged by an unusually destructive earthquake. Almost all of the houses were insured. We ask whether insurance was able to … mitigate the damage adequately, or whether the damage from the earthquake, and the associated insurance payments, led to a … data sets: All housing market transactions, all earthquake insurance claims submitted to the public insurer, and all of the …

done on a panel of 103 countries over the period 1979–2016. We find that in the five years following a large earthquake (i …) countries exposed accumulate reserves, for precautionary reasons, (ii) trade openness is positively associated with the post-earthquake …/or inflation targeting regimes, and (iv) the patterns of reserves holding post-earthquake vary with a country’s income level. …