valuation of disaster risk. Focusing on media discourse addresses the challenge of sample size even when major disasters are … rare. Our methodology avoids look-ahead bias and addresses semantic shifts. War discourse positively predicts market …-grade corporate bonds. The predictive power of war discourse increases in more recent time periods …

locations outside of major urban centers for security reasons during the United States' industrial mobilization for World War II …

our analysis of these new data, we find that the relatively stingy, fixed-price contracts of the Civil War era led … inventors to focus broadly on reducing costs, while the less cost-conscious procurement contracts of World War I did not. We …' preferences across wars. Finally, we find that the Civil War and World War I procurement shocks led to substantial increases in …

This paper considers the effect of the First World War on large-scale businesses in Second …-Industrial-Revolution industries like steel, electricity, and chemicals. For firms in the nations of the Entente, we argue, the war mainly interrupted … long-term trends that resumed in the aftermath of the conflict. For Germany, however, the war and its subsequent …

emerged in many European countries after World War I. We demonstrate that economic policy uncertainty was instrumental in … pushing a subset of European countries into hyperinflation shortly after the end of the war. Germany, Austria, Poland, and …

war. These challenges served to break down some of the barriers faced by underrepresented workers. Recent years have shown … compensated for the lack of white male workers during the war years; however, only WWII generated significant and more prolonged … socioeconomic progress for both groups. This chapter summarizes theoretical considerations that can explain why some war …

World War II was one of the most acute emergencies in U.S. history, and the first where the mobilization of science and … research effort to develop technologies and medical treatments that not only helped win the war, but also transformed civilian … World War II innovation model in other crises. In this essay we describe exactly how it worked. We do so first through a …

to a resolution: World War II and the COVID-19 pandemic. After providing an overview of the main elements of each of … World War II effort and use these lessons to speculate on the potential long-run effects of the COVID-19 crisis on …