disaster event. Considering both the flood and the aid treatment, we construct four mutually exclusive and exhaustive groups …We estimate the short-run impact of a major flood that hit the region of Veneto in 2010 on firms' performance. Using … control group of companies that are not exposed to the flood. The results indicate that the value added growth of affected …

behavior, For this purpose, we exploit a natural experiment stemming from the European Flood of August 2002, Combining micro … data with geo-coded flood maps allows us to analyze the causal impact of flood exposure on household savings within a … differences-in-differences setting, We find that flood exposure depresses household saving behavior in the medium run, The most …