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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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Fifty years of peril : a comprehensive comparison of the impact of terrorism and disasters linked to natural hazards (1970-2019)

Wilson, Timothy; Noy, Ilan - 2022

We compare the realised impact of terrorism and disasters linked to natural hazards. Using fifty years of data from two databases covering 99 percent of the global population, we find that natural hazard disasters were more then 20 times more impactful than terrorism. The former had a larger...

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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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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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Growth and mitigation policies with uncertain climate damage

Bretschger, Lucas; Vinogradova, Alexandra - 2014

growth rate of consumption and the capital stock until a shock arrives, triggering a downward jump in both variables. Optimum …

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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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The impact of a large-scale natural disaster on local economic activity : evidence from the 2003 Bam earthquake in Iran

Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Fischer, Sven - 2023

This study provides new causal evidence for the impact of a large-scale natural disaster on local economic activity in … disaster relief during the reformist government of President Khatami, the political trust and mobilization of civil society in …, economic activity in Bam County returns to its pre-disaster development path after seven years. …

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Decentralization and natural disasters

Goodspeed, Timothy J. - 2013

disaster. The paper concludes by reflecting on what we know about whether policies to confront natural disasters should be …

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