2010 earthquake in Chile and the 2011 earthquake in Japan. In both cases there was an immediate and persistent effect on … product availability. The number of goods available for sale fell 32% in Chile and 17% in Japan from the day of the disaster … suggests a bigger role for supply disruptions that restricted the ability of retailers to re-stock goods after the earthquake …

This paper examines the long-run effects of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake on the spatial distribution of economic … activity in the American West. Using variation in the potential damage intensity of the earthquake, we show that more severely … attractive migration destinations in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake, which permanently changed the spatial …

The Messina-Reggio Calabria Earthquake (1908) was the most devastating natural disaster in modern European history. It … occurred when overseas mass emigration from southern Italy was at its peak and international borders were open, making …

This paper uses the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake in China as a natural experiment to examine how the housing market reacted … analyze the pricing behavior of units in lower versus upper floors before and after the earthquake. We observe that average … in the first and second floor, considerably increased for several months after the earthquake. This relative pricing …

We investigate whether individuals' risk preferences change after experiencing a natural disaster, specifically, the … 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. Exploiting the panels of nationally representative surveys on risk preferences, we find … that men who experienced greater intensity of the Earthquake became more risk tolerant after the Earthquake. Furthermore …

We investigate the effect of sovereign risk on credit supply, using August 1999 Earthquake as an exogenous shock …

scarring effects of the event itself. We examine survival at and in the five years after the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and … tsunami for a population-representative sample of residents of Aceh, Indonesia who were differentially exposed to the disaster … loss associated with elevated mortality risks in the five years after the disaster among adults age 50 or older at the time …

effects of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, a shock that immediately reduced United States. GNP by 1.5-1.8 percentage points … the Federal Reserve. In this study, we identify the San Francisco earthquake as the shock that triggered the chain of …

influx into Florida public schools following the Haitian earthquake of 2010 using unique matched birth and schooling records … earthquake or in the two years that follow, regardless of the socioeconomic status, grade level, ethnicity, or birthplace of …