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How do floods affect firms’ economic performance? : evidence from two cyclones in New Zealand
Prieto, Cristhian D.; Noy, Ilan - 2024
identify flood damage, we propose a novel method using high-resolution satellite imagery to track changes in ground vegetation …-in-Differences (DID) approach, we find that firm premises located in flood-affected areas experienced significant declines in gross output …
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Do natural disasters stimulate individual saving? : evidence from a natural experiment in a highly developed country
Berlemann, Michael; Steinhardt, Max Friedrich; Tutt, Jascha - 2015
of a natural experiment created by the European Flood of August 2002. Using micro data from the German Socio …-Economic Panel that we combine with geographic flood data, we compare the savings behavior of affected and non-affected individuals …
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Financial market responses to a natural disaster : evidence from local credit networks and the Indian Ocean tsunami
Czura, Kristina; Klonner, Stefan - 2018
Conventional wisdom in economics holds that traditional credit and insurance networks are inapt for insuring against covariate risks such as natural hazards. We challenge this claim by examining changes in financial allocations in Rotating Savings and Credit Associations (Roscas), a popular...
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Impacts of droughts and floods on agricultural productivity in New Zealand as measured from space
Blanc, Elodie; Noy, Ilan - 2022
This study estimates the impact of excess precipitation (or the absence of rainfall) on productivity of agricultural land parcels in New Zealand. This type of post-disaster damage assessments aims to allow for quantification of disaster damage when on-the-ground assessment of damage is too...
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The cost of being under the weather : droughts, floods, and health care costs in Sri Lanka
De Alwis, Diana; Noy, Ilan - 2017
with access to sanitation and hygiene. Finally, both direct and indirect risks associated with flood and drought on health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011663620
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Floods and spillovers : households after the 2011 great flood in Thailand
Noy, Ilan; Cuong Nhu Nguyen; Patel, Pooja - 2019
In 2011, Thailand experienced its worst flood ever. Using repeated waves of the Thai Household Survey, we analyse the … flood's economic impacts. In 2012, households answered a set of questions on the extent of flooding they experienced. We use … this self-identified flood exposure, and external exposure indicators from satellite images, to identify both directly …
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Euro area SMEs under financial constraints : belief or reality?
Artola, Concha; Genre, Véronique - 2011
During the recent financial crisis, euro area firms, and especially Small and Medium-sized Enterprises, have been reporting acute problems of access to external finance. Using firm-level replies to the SME survey on access to finance, we use two indicators of financing constraints based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009380414
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Unraveling firms : demand, productivity and markups heterogeneity
Forlani, Emanuele; Martin, Ralf; Mion, Giordano; Muls, … - 2016 - First draft: 16th June 2015. This draft: January 15, 2016
We develop a new econometric framework that simultaneously allows recovering heterogeneity in demand, TFP and markups across firms while leaving the correlation among the three unrestricted. We do this by systematically exploiting assumptions that are implicit in previous firm-level productivity...
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Do entrepreneurs matter?
Becker, Sascha O.; Hvide, Hans K. - 2013
In the large literature on firm performance, economists have given little attention to entrepreneurs. We use deaths of more than 500 entrepreneurs as a source of exogenous variation, and ask whether this variation can explain shifts in firm performance. Using longitudinal data, we find large and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009691623
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Endogenous spatial production networks : quantitative implications for trade and productivity
Panigrahi, Piyush - 2021
Larger Indian firms selling inputs to other firms tend to have more customers, tend to be used more intensively by their customers, and tend to have larger customers. Motivated by these regularities, I propose a novel empirical model of trade featuring endogenous formation of input-output...
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