Showing 1 - 10 of 7,218
This paper unravels the contemporaneous, lagged, and indirect effects of tropical cyclones on annual sectoral growth worldwide. The main explanatory variable is an area-weighted measure for local tropical cyclone intensity based on meteoro-logical data, which is included in a panel analysis for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011798404
This paper unravels the contemporaneous, lagged, and indirect effects of tropical cyclones on annual sectoral growth worldwide. The main explanatory variable is an area weighted measure for local tropical cyclone intensity based on meteorological data, which is included in a panel analysis for a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011894576
This paper investigates the long-run consequences of economic disasters. The research is based on the historical data for 38 OECD and non OECD countries over the last two centuries. Results of the research indicate the negative long-run effect of economic disasters on output growth. The research...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012969572
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010395164
pre-disaster trend, and do not recover within twenty years. Both rich and poor countries exhibit this response, with … suppression of annual growth rates spread across the fifteen years following disaster, generating large and significant cumulative … continuous exposure to disaster. Linking these results to projections of future cyclone activity, we estimate that under …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013049691
pre-disaster trend, and do not recover within twenty years. Both rich and poor countries exhibit this response, with … suppression of annual growth rates spread across the fifteen years following disaster, generating large and significant cumulative … continuous exposure to disaster. Linking these results to projections of future cyclone activity, we estimate that under …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458315
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013341570
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011968903
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014520817
speed. In the 20th century, religion played a much lesser role in daily life and income and productivity grew at high and …In medieval times, most people identified with religious values and aggregate income and productivity grew at glacier … worldly pleasures and aggregate productivity takes off. An extension of the basic model investigates the Protestant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010357676