an unusual weather pattern depend crucially on actuarial models for determining event (e.g., default) probabilities. In …

previous Latin American immigrants falls when controlling for out-migration. This highlights the importance of controlling for … out-migration not only of natives but also of previous immigrants in regional studies of immigration …

The Messina-Reggio Calabria Earthquake (1908) was the most devastating natural disaster in modern European history. It … migration. We find that there was no large positive impact on emigration on average. There were, however, heterogeneous …

on the universe of federal disaster declarations between 1989 and 2014, we document that congress members from districts … the disaster. The response to hurricanes does not seem to be driven by logrolling behavior or lobbysts' pressure. The …

is required. A model identified using indirect inference simulates increasing disaster risk without GSEs. Mortgage credit …

down, are the proportionate effect of environmental investment on the probability of environmental disaster and the … baseline probability of environmental disaster …

dynamics of migration, trade, and innovation, this paper estimates the consequences of probabilistic projections of local sea … particularly hard hit. When ignoring the dynamic economic adaptation of investment and migration to flooding, the loss in real GDP …

Emissions control cannot address the consequences of global warming for weather disasters until decades later. We model … regional-level mitigation or adaptation, which reduces disaster risks to capital in the interim. Mitigation depends on belief … regarding the adverse consequences of global warming. Pessimism jumps with a disaster and slowly reverts in the absence of …