of living elsewhere. When a natural disaster or other exogenous shock forces individuals to move, the net impact on …, including unemployment and growth rates. The impact of evacuation on total income was blunted to some extent by government …

children in the disaster are significantly more likely to bear additional children after the tsunami. This response explains …

-probability/high-impact risks, like floods, and whether past flood insurance purchases and flooding experience moderate the effect of defaults. Our … study uses a naturally occurring difference in experience, comparing the surveyed flood insurance choices of 1 …,187 homeowners, half of whom are in the Netherlands, where flood insurance penetration rates are low and recent flooding caused minor …

on flood risk capitalization into housing prices. Second, we implement a field survey in Rhode Island. We find … significant heterogeneity and sorting based on flood risk perceptions and amenity values. Third, we calibrate the model and …

Cross-country regressions suggest little connection from foreign capital inflows to more rapid economic growth for … developing countries and emerging markets. This suggests that the lack of domestic savings is not the primary constraint on … growth in these economies, as implicitly assumed in the benchmark neoclassical framework. We explore emerging new theories on …

impact of COVID-19. A costly disaster series is constructed over the sample 1980:1-2020:04 and the dynamic impact of a … disaster shock on economic activity and on uncertainty is studied using a VAR. While past natural disasters are local in nature … of large disaster shocks. Even in a fairly conservative case where COVID-19 is a 5-month shock with its magnitude …