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Sustainable museum culture in the post-pandemic city: Case study of Skopje

Ana, Velinova; Meri, Batakoja; Zoran, Pavlov - 2021

in time of social restrictions through the case study of the city of Skopje. The focus of the paper is museum culture, a … through a museological paradigm is generally absent on the territory of the city of Skopje. Open-air museums aim at open … potentials of heritage resources on the territory of Skopje. The case study on sustainable museum culture in Skopje will focus on …

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Earthquakes and economic growth

Fisker, Peter Simonsen - 2012

This study explores the economic consequences of earthquakes. In particular, it is investigated how exposure to earthquakes affects economic growth both across and within countries. The key result of the empirical analysis is that while there are no observable effects at the country level,...

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Appraising the unhappiness due to the Great East Japan Earthquake: Evidence from weekly panel data on subjective well-being

Ohtake, Fumio; Yamada, Katsunori - 2013

After severe disasters, persons living not only in the directly affected areas, but also in distant areas could be seriously affected thorough images of the disaster on television and in newspapers. Hence, it can be difficult to define qualified beneficiaries for policy compensation in terms of...

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Animal modeling of earthquakes and prediction markets

Schnytzer, Adi; Schnytzer, Yisrael - 2011

Prediction markets have been shown to generate fairly accurate odds of various events occurring in the future. The forthcoming possibility of natural disasters provides, on occasion, an opportunity for a bet, yet no wide scale and accepted prediction market has arisen despite its obvious...

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Migration, risk and the intra-household allocation of labor in El Salvador

Halliday, Timothy J. - 2008

We use panel data from El Salvador and investigate the intra-household allocation of labor as a risk-coping strategy. Adverse agricultural productivity shocks both increased male migration to the US and male agricultural labor supply. This is not a contradiction if there were non-monotonic...

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Impact of the 1999 earthquakes on the outcome of the 2002 parliamentary election in Turkey

Akarca, Ali T.; Tansel, Aysit - 2008

The two major earthquakes which struck northwestern Turkey in 1999, not only caused enormous amounts of death, destruction and suffering, but also exposed rampant government corruption involving construction and zoning code violations. The incompetence shown by the government in providing...

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Intra-household labor supply, migration, and subsistence constraints in a risky environment: Evidence from rural El Salvador

Halliday, Timothy J. - 2010

We use panel data from El Salvador to investigate migration and the intra-household allocation of labor as a strategy for coping with uninsured risk. Consistent with a model of a farm household with a binding subsistence constraint, we show that adverse agricultural productivity shocks increased...

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Dynamiken der deutsch-türkischen Wirtschaftskooperation: Resilienz und Perspektiven unternehmerischen Handelns

Aydin, Yasar; Bastian, Jens - 2023

Ungeachtet politischer Differenzen zwischen Berlin und Ankara verzeichnete der deutsch-türkische Handel 2022 neue Rekordwerte. Von einer Krise für deutsche Unternehmen, die sich in der Türkei betätigen, kann kaum die Rede sein. Gleichwohl stellen sich zahlreiche Herausforderungen, die...

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Der lange Weg zur integralen Elementarschadenversicherung und -vorbeugung in der Schweiz

Fischer, Markus - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 77 (2008) 4, pp. 98-103

Bis zum Auftreten der ersten Versicherungen prägten zwei Verhaltensweisen die Bewältigung von Elementarereignissen: Einerseits wurden die Leistungen auf freiwilliger Basis erbracht, andererseits kamen die Solidaritätsleistungen immer erst nach dem Eintritt der verheerenden Naturereignisse...

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Japan's post-triple-disaster growth strategy

Kawai, Masahiro; Morgan, Peter J. - 2012

The Great East Japan Earthquake on 11 March 2011 was the biggest earthquake recorded in Japanese seismic history, and the fourth largest recorded in the world. The scope of the disaster far exceeded that of the Hanshin Earthquake of 1995. The repercussions of this disaster spread far beyond the...

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