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Do natural disasters affect household saving? : evidence from the August 2002 flood in Germany
Berlemann, Michael; Haustein, Erik; Steinhardt, Max … - 2024
-induced extreme weather events, An underexplored question is whether and how climate-related natural hazards affect household saving … data with geo-coded flood maps allows us to analyze the causal impact of flood exposure on household savings within a … differences-in-differences setting, We find that flood exposure depresses household saving behavior in the medium run, The most …
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Does uncertainty reduce growth? : using disasters as natural experiments
Baker, Scott; Bloom, Nicholas - 2013
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Lasting impact on health from natural disasters, potential mechanisms and mitigating effects
Dhamija, Gaurav; Sen, Gitanjali - 2022
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The effects of natural disasters and weather variations on international trade : a review of the empirical literature
Osberghaus, Daniel - 2019
This review summarizes the empirical literature on the effects of natural disasters and weather variations on international trade flows. A first result is that the body of literature is actually not as small as previously suggested. In total, I summarize 19 studies of 18 independent research...
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The impact of natural disasters on banks' impairment flow : evidence from Germany
Shala, Iliriana; Schumacher, Benno - 2022
Climate change causes natural disasters to occur at higher frequency and increased severity. Using a unique dataset on German banks, this paper explores how regionally less diversified banks in Germany adjusted their loan loss provisioning following the severe summer flood of 2013, which...
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How do different compensation schemes and loss experience affect insurance decisions? : experimental evidence from two independent and heterogeneous samples
Osberghaus, Daniel; Reif, Christiane - 2020
Although natural hazard insurance is advocated as an important means of risk management, private insurance demand often remains below critical levels. Prior loss experience and the design of governmental relief schemes are two factors potentially influencing insurance decisions. We address these...
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Exposure to climate disasters and individual migration aspirations : evidence from Senegal and the Gambia
Pañeda-Fernández, Irene; Meierrieks, Daniel - 2024
How do climate disasters shape migration? The existing evidence presents conflicting and inconclusive findings. To address this question, we theorize the cognitive processes guiding migration decisions in the wake of disasters. On the one hand, the link between climate disasters and migration...
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Are remittances a substitute for credit? : carrying the financial burden of health shocks in national and transnational households
Ambrosius, Christian - 2012
The assumption that remittances are a substitute for credit has been an implicit or explicit theoretical foundation of many empirical studies on remittances. This paper directly tests this assumption by comparing the response to health-related shocks among national and transnational households...
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Income shocks, borrowing constraints and household child schooling : evidence from rural Thailand
Sasiwooth Wongmonta - 2021
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COVID-19 and the formation of energy conservation routines : disentangling the relative importance of attention and income shocks
Löschel, Andreas; Price, Michael Keith; Razzolini, Laura; … - 2022
We examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the formation of energy conservation routines. To do so, we use data from two nationwide surveys of German households, conducted before and during the pandemic. Across the two survey waves, we document a significant increase in the likelihood...
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