We study the impact of the Fukushima disaster on environmental concerns, well-being, risk aversion, and political preferences in Germany, Switzerland, and the UK. In these countries, overall life satisfaction did not significantly decrease, but the disaster significantly increased environmental...

This paper uses a difference-in-differences approach to test the hypothesis that the increase in the per-shipment costs of imports from Japan due to the Fukushima disaster in 2011 lead to an increase in the lumpiness of imports from Japan. Using China and the USA as control groups it is found...

This paper analyzes how policy changes affect shareholder wealth in the context of environmental regulation. We exploit the unique and unexpected German reaction to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, which involved the immediate shutdown of almost half of Germany's nuclear reactors while...

Chapter 1 Disaster Impact 1 Introduction 2 Firm Level Impact (Why Focus Solely on German Firms? Questionnaire Based Research) 3 Economic Impact and Move (Temporary Closing or Relocation. Economic Impact. Autonomy and Leaving Japan?) 4 Situation of Non-Japanese Employees After the Disaster...