This paper studies how media and democracy influence government action taken before and after a natural disaster. The … democratic institutions both contribute positively to the government's palliative effort after the disaster. However, the effects … of media and democracy on the government's preventive effort before the disaster are negative. We provide empirical …

Research suggests that a donor country’s decision to provide post-disaster assistance is not only driven by the … severity of a disaster and the resulting humanitarian needs in the recipient country, but also by strategic considerations. The … authors argue that the identification of the determinants of the size of disaster assistance is a first step in the analysis …

gives an economic analysis of the institutional arrangements on the market for natural disaster insurances focusing on … market for natural disaster insurances, in the way that it acts as an obstacle for the proper diffusion and therefore the …