Xu, Ankai; Kouwoaye, Amèvi Rocard - 2019 - Manuscript date: 6 December 2019
This paper is the first in the literature to examine the impact of natural disasters on trade in services. We measure … trade in services using a structural gravity model. We find that, overall, natural disasters lead to a decline of services … exports of the affected country but have ambiguous effects on its services imports. On average, a large natural disaster can …