different types of disasters, the effect of changing disaster risk so far has largely been neglected. In this paper we study the …

choice of baseline and of the wind-speed elasticity of storm damage. -- climate change ; tropical storms ; economic impact …

how disasters affect long-run growth. Based on truly exogenous storm indicators, derived from a meteorological database … protect against storm consequences. We show that the negative growth effects in underdeveloped countries are amplified by an …

to their asset quality caused by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. We find that independent banks based in the disaster areas …

a measure of the post-storm increase in demand for local goods and services on the demand for labor. We find evidence …

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 …