The received wisdom is that the devastation wrought by the 1995 Kobe earthquake did not have any long-term impact on … the Japanese economy, nor much impact on Kobe itself. We re-evaluate the evidence using a new methodology, synthetic … control, and find a persistent and still continuing adverse impact of the quake on the economy of Kobe more than 15 years …

Japan's most powerful known earthquake struck at 2:46p.m. on Friday, March 11, 2011. We study the unusual trading …, purchases were significantly less than sales in the week after the earthquake. Foreign investors typically show positive … feedback and momentum trading patterns. However, in the week after the earthquake, they seemed to have stabilized the Japanese …

devastating earthquake, the Greeat Tohoku Earthquake, we examine the impact of firm efficiency on firm exit both inside and … outside the earthquake-affected areas. We find evidence suggesting that more efficeint firms are less likely to exit both … mechanism is weaker for those firms whose main banks were damaged by the earthquake, which suggests that damage to banks weakens …

the 1995 Kobe earthquake on the survival of manufacturing plants, their post-earthquake economic performance, and the …In recent years, natural disasters from Hurricane Katrina to the Fukushima earthquake have grabbed the attention of the … time the actual damage to the building where each plant was located at the time of the earthquake. Including plant and …

using a unique data set of more than 84,000 firms after the Great Tohoku Earthquake, we examine the impact of firm … efficiency on firm bankruptcy both inside and outside the earthquake-affected areas. We find that more efficient firms are less …. However, we also find that firms located inside the earthquake-affected areas are less likely to go bankrupt than those …

This paper studies the impact of the 1999 Colombian Earthquake on child nutrition and schooling. The identification … strategy combines household survey data with event data on the timing and location of the earthquake, exploiting the exogenous … exposure of children to the shock. The paper uniquely identifies both the short- and medium-term impacts of the earthquake …