risk from riverine floods. While there are similarities in the ranking of policies among regions with comparable levels of …

We analyze the impact of earthquakes on nighttime lights at a sub-national level, i.e. on grids of different size. We … geophysical event data on earthquakes together with satellite nighttime lights. Using panel fixed effects regressions covering the … entire world for the period 1992-2013 we find that earthquakes reduce both light growth rates and light levels significantly …

response of international reserves to shocks by using a quasi-experimental setup and focusing on earthquakes. The estimation is …

intensity of earthquakes and storms. We find large negative effects for heavily indebted poor, least developed or landlocked …

Disasters caused by natural hazards, such as earthquakes or hurricanes, have many adverse consequences associated with … difficult to clear its name. Our examples are three recent Italian earthquakes for which we quantify the impact on tourism of … the earthquakes themselves and of the toponyms they were given. Once an area is defined as affected, even when it was not …