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Costantini, Valeria; Gracceva, Francesco - 2004

The costs of energy supply disruptions for industrialised economies go well beyond the economic measures of national accounts. According to different kinds of risks, physical shortages or price shocks, there are several categories of negative effects. Oil disruptions have both a direct and an...

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Bereinigung sozioökonomischer Effekte bei Schäden tropischer Wirbelstürme für eine Analyse zum Einfluss des Klimawandels

Schmidt, Silvio; Kemfert, Claudia; Höppe, Peter - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 77 (2008) 4, pp. 116-139

An der Atlantikküste der USA haben die ökonomischen Schäden durch tropische Wirbelstürme in den letzten zehn Jahren dramatisch zugenommen. Es ist anzunehmen, dass ein Großteil der wirtschaftlichen Schäden darauf zurückzuführen ist, dass der Wohlstand der Bevölkerung gestiegen ist und...

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Disaster Risk Management in Asia and the Pacific: Issues Paper

2013

This issues paper aims to help ADB DMC governments integrate Disaster Risk Management into their national developmental … strategies and examine how emerging economies of Asia can cooperate to improve their disaster risk management practices, in view … contribute to ADB’s ongoing efforts to mainstream disaster risk management into its lending strategies, strengthen the governance …

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Growth and Mitigation Policies with Uncertain Climate Damage

Bretschger, Lucas; Vinogradova, Alexandra - 2014

Climate physics predicts that the intensity of natural disasters will increase in the future due to climate change. One of the biggest challenges for economic modeling is the inherent uncertainty of climate events, which crucially affects consumption, investment, and abatement decisions. We...

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The social and private costs of retail payment instruments: a European perspective

Schmiedel, Heiko; Kostova, Gergana; Ruttenberg, Wiebe - 2012

The European Central Bank (ECB) carried out a study of the social and private costs of different payment instruments with the participation of 13 national central banks in the European System of Central Banks (ESCB). It shows that the costs to society of providing retail payment services are...

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The social costs of health-related early retirement in Germany: Evidence from the German Socio-economic panel

Hostenkamp, Gisela; Stolpe, Michael - 2008

This study investigates the role of stratification of health and income in the social cost of healthrelated early retirement, as evidenced in the German Socio-economic Panel (GSOEP). We interpret early retirement as a mechanism to limit work-related declines in health that allows poorer and less...

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Estimating the welfare costs of very high inflations and hyperinflations

Benati, Luca; Nicolini, Juan Pablo - 2024

We explore the welfare costs of inflation originating from lack of liquidity satiation for Weimar Republic's hyperinflation and three high-inflation countries. Towards the peak of Weimar's hyperinflation the costs are estimated to have been equal to nearly 20 per cent of income. For Israel,...

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The costs of paying: Private and social costs of cash and card systems

Bergman, Mats; Guibourg, Gabriela; Segendorf, Björn - 2007

Despite the central role of payments in theoretical and policy oriented economics, there is surprisingly little known about the costs of different payment instruments. We estimate social and private costs of cash, debit and credit card payments in Sweden in 2002. The combined social cost of...

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The cost of consumer payments in Sweden

Segendorf, Björn; Jansson, Thomas - 2012

We estimate the social and private costs of consumer-to-business payments in Sweden in 2009. The combined social cost for these payments was 0.68 per cent of GDP. At the point of sale, cash is socially less costly than debit cards for payments below EUR 1.88 (SEK 20) and credit cards below EUR...

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Reforming Canada's disaster assistance programs

Davies, James B. - 2020

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