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Kahn (2005) found that ethnic heterogeneity reduces the number of deaths caused by natural disasters, a finding that is contrary to theoretical predictions. This paper casts doubt on this finding and uses cross-country data from 1965 to 2008 to conduct a re-estimation. To alleviate omitted...
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Individual risk preference may change after experiencing external socio-economic or natural shocks. Theoretical … predictions and empirical studies suggest that risk taking may increase or decrease after experiencing shocks. So far the … whether experiencing financial and health-related damage caused by storms affects risk preference of individuals in Germany …
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2012 and 2014, each among more than 6,000 German households, we analyze the determinants of individual risk perception … associated with three kinds of natural hazards: heat waves, storms, and floods. Our focus is on the role of objective risk … are strong drivers of individual risk perception. …
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We investigate the uncertainty dynamics surrounding extreme weather events through the lens of option and stock markets by identifying market responses to the uncertainty regarding both potential hurricane landfall and subsequent economic impact. Stock options on firms with establishments...
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different types of disasters, the effect of changing disaster risk so far has largely been neglected. In this paper we study the … effect of hurricane risk on individual self-reported life satisfaction. In order to do so we combine geo-referenced survey … we construct time-varying indicators of hurricane risk on the zip-code-level for the period of 2010 to 2018, based on …
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The sources of economic growth and development have been puzzling economists from the modern dawn of the profession. While the Solow-Swan neo-classical model dominated research on growth in the 1960s and 1970s, the 1980s saw the emergence of growth theories that disputed, largely on theoretical...
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Individual risk preference may change after experiencing external socio-economic or natural shocks. Theoretical … predictions and empirical studies suggest that risk taking may increase or decrease after experiencing shocks. So far the … whether experiencing financial and health-related damage caused by storms affects risk preference of individuals in Germany …
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results. To shed a light on these questions, we analyse a sample of 69 transition risk metrics delivered by 9 different … climate transition risk providers and covering the 1,500 firms of the MSCI World index. Our findings show that convergence … between metrics is significantly higher for the firms most exposed to transition risk. We also show that metrics with similar …
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This paper examines how gender equality influences difference in cognitive skills between genders. For closer examination of Guiso et al. (2008), restricting the sample to immigrant allows us to reduce the possibility of reverse causality. Key findings obtained through regression estimation are:...
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This paper examines how gender equality influences difference in cognitive skills between genders. For closer examination of Guiso et al. (2008), restricting the sample to immigrant allows us to reduce the possibility of reverse causality. Key findings obtained through regression estimation are:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014129689