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Do natural disasters stimulate individual saving? : evidence from a natural experiment in a highly developed country
Berlemann, Michael; Steinhardt, Max Friedrich; Tutt, Jascha - 2015
While various empirical studies have found negative growth-effects of natural disasters, little is yet known about the microeconomic channels through which disasters might affect short- and especially long-term growth. This paper contributes to filling this gap in the literature by studying how...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010516460
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Do natural disasters stimulate individual saving? : evidence from a natural experiment in a highly developed country
Berlemann, Michael; Steinhardt, Max Friedrich; Tutt, Jascha - 2015
While various empirical studies have found negative growth-effects of natural disasters, little is yet known about the microeconomic channels through which disasters might affect short- and especially long-term growth. This paper contributes to filling this gap in the literature by studying how...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010518804
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Do natural disasters stimulate individual saving? : evidence from a natural experiment in a highly developed country
Berlemann, Michael; Steinhardt, Max Friedrich; Tutt, Jascha - 2015
While various empirical studies have found negative growth-effects of natural disasters, little is yet known about the microeconomic channels through which disasters might affect short- and especially long-term growth. This paper contributes to filling this gap in the literature by studying how...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283079
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Natural Disasters, Foreign Aid, and Economic Growth
Jackson, Osborne - 2014
. Because using a country's own disaster exposure as an instrument for aid inflows violates exogeneity assumptions, I instead … use the disaster exposure of a country's "aid neighbors," defined as its competitors for aid from donors. Using aid …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014153490
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Hurricanes, economic growth and transmission channels : empirical evidence for developed and underdeveloped countries
Berlemann, Michael; Wenzel, Daniela - 2016
While the short-term growth consequences of natural disasters are comparatively well studied, there is little knowledge how disasters affect long-run growth. Based on truly exogenous storm indicators, derived from a meteorological database, we show that the growth effects of tropical storms go...
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The Impact of Natural Disasters on Remittances to Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Bettin, Giulia - 2016
remittances increase after a disaster, thus contributing ex post to the reconstruction process. At the same time, we find that …
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The economic development impact of natural disasters in APEC countries (1999-2013)
Primanti, Inez Novialita; Roeslan, Femmy; Hastiadi, … - In: Journal of economic cooperation & development 39 (2018) 2, pp. 1-28
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Tropical cyclones and economic growth : the importance of considering Small Island Developing States
Kulanthaivelu, Eric - In: Revue d'économie politique 133 (2023) 5, pp. 693-740
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014440969
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Foreign Aid in the Aftermath of Large Natural Disasters
Noy, Ilan - 2013
2008. Using an event-study approach, the paper finds that while the median increase in ODA is 18 percent compared to pre-disaster … only 3 percent of the total estimated economic damages caused by the disasters. The main determinants of post-disaster aid … strategic behavior on the part of donors determine the size of post-disaster aid surges …
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Naturkatastrophen und Entwicklungsländer
Engelmann, Sabine - In: Ifo Dresden berichtet 12 (2005) 2, pp. 38-42
ein Grund für ein anhaltendes schwaches Wirtschaftswachstum in Entwicklungsländern? Der vorliegende Beitrag gibt einen …
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