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The economics of natural disasters : a survey
Cavallo, Eduardo A.; Noy, Ilan - 2009
economic development and growth is still in its infancy. In order to facilitate further necessary research on this topic, this …
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Natural disasters and regional development : the case of earthquakes
Fabian, Marius; Lessmann, Christian; Sofke, Tim - 2019
, both at the level of the outcome variable - usually national income or growth - as well as on the level of the independent … entire world for the period 1992-2013 we find that earthquakes reduce both light growth rates and light levels significantly …
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Is disaster risk reduction spending driven by the occurrence of natural disasters? : evidence from Peru
Miller, Sebastián; Vela, Mauricio A. - 2014
This paper studies the allocation of total disaster risk reduction public spending among regions in Peru. The main objective of this work is to identify the main determinants of the distribution of these resources, and for this purpose an index of historical physical impacts of natural...
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Estimating the direct economic damage of the earthquake in Haiti
Cavallo, Eduardo A.; Powell, Andrew; Becerra, Oscar - 2010
This paper uses simple regression techniques to make an initial assessment of the monetary damages caused by the January 12, 2010 earthquake that struck Haiti. Damages are estimated for a disaster with both 200,000 and 250,000 total dead and missing (i.e., the range of mortality that the...
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Natural disasters and social capital formation : the impact of the Great Hanshin-Awaji earthquake
Yamamura, Eiji - 2013
The Great Hanshin-Awaji (Kobe) earthquake struck Japan in 1995, causing devastating damage to the economic landscape of south-central Japan. The earthquake also caused people to realize the importance of social capital in Japan. Based on a large, individual-level database comprising 488,223...
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Droughts and corruption
Wenzel, Daniela - 2018
Natural disasters are a challenge for good governance - this is the result of recent research investigating the effects of natural disasters on one important antagonistic force to good governance, public corruption. However, a specific analysis of droughts is so far neglected in this young...
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Unmitigated disasters? : risk-sharing and macroeconomic recovery in a large international panel
Von Peter, Goetz; Aschenbrenner- von Dahlen, Sebastian; … - 2024
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Using disasters to estimate the impact of uncertainty
Baker, Scott; Bloom, Nicholas; Terry, Stephen - In: The review of economic studies : RES 91 (2024) 2, pp. 720-747
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The Long-Run Effect of Economic Disasters
Coric, Bruno - 2017
-run effect of economic disasters on output growth. The research also suggests that the negative relationship between output … growth and volatility reflects the negative effect of economic disasters on output growth rather than the effect of ‘normal …' output volatility on growth. Results do not reveal strong empirical support to the hypothesis that investments are the main …
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Rebuilding after Disaster Strikes : How Local Lenders Aid in the Recovery
Cortés, Kristle Romero - 2015
disaster and can lead to 1 to 2% higher employment growth at either young or small firms. Banks increase lending but are not …
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