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Natural disasters and macroeconomic performance

Strulik, Holger; Trimborn, Timo - 2016

Recent empirical research has shown that output and GDP per capita in the aftermath of natural disasters are not necessarily lower than before the event. In many cases, both are not significantly affected and, surprisingly, sometimes they are found to respond positively to natural disasters....

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Natural disasters and macroeconomic performance : the role of residential investment

Strulik, Holger; Trimborn, Timo - 2014 - First Version: March 2014. This Version: September 2014

Recent empirical research has shown that income per capita in the aftermath of natural disasters is not necessarily lower than before the event. In many cases, income is not significantly affected and surprisingly, can even respond positively to natural disasters. Here, we propose a simple...

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Natural disasters and macroeconomic performance

Strulik, Holger; Trimborn, Timo - In: Environmental & resource economics : the official … 72 (2019) 4, pp. 1069-1098

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The impact of natural disasters on economic growth

Cavallo, Eduardo A.; Becerra, Oscar; Acevedo, Laura - 2021

rates in the disaster's aftermath. In contrast, when the severity of the events is determined by physical intensity rather …

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The growth impact of disasters in developing Asia

Dagli, Suzette; Ferrarini, Benno - 2019

because disaster effects tend to be highly localized and get diluted in the context of cross-country regressions with …

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Effectiveness of foreign development assistance in mitigating natural disasters' impact : case study of Pacific island countries

Chen, Hong; Singh, Baljeet - 2020

Natural disasters bring tremendous destruction to small island economies in the South Pacific region. Foreign development aid, as an important source of green finance in the region, has the fundamental purpose of reducing natural disasters' effect on the small island economies. With country...

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Mitigating the macroeconomic impact of severe natural disasters in Africa : policy synergies

Diop, Samba; Asongu, Simplice; Tchamyou, Vanessa - 2021

This study evaluates the economic impact of severe natural disasters in Africa using the generalized synthetic control method. In other words, it assesses how gross domestic product (GDP) would have been affected if severe natural disasters did not occur. Moreover, it explores the determinants...

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Catastrophic Natural Disasters and Economic Growth

Cavallo, Eduardo A. - 2013

We examine the short and long run average causal impact of catastrophic natural disasters on economic growth by combining information from comparative case studies. We assess the counterfactual of the cases studied by constructing synthetic control groups taking advantage of the fact that the...

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Natural disaster shocks and macroeconomic growth in Asia : evidence for typhoons and droughts

Alano, Emmanuel; Lee, Minsoo - 2016

Climate-related natural disaster shocks are expected to rise as the earth is getting warmer, which will adversely … of development gains and exacerbate inequality. To cope with increasing disaster risks, both short-term adaptation … strategies like relocation, government transfers, and other social safety nets, as well as long-term strategies like disaster …

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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...

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