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Hurricanes give rise to flight-to-safety episodes during which High Tech stocks consistently behave differently from stocks in other industries. We isolate a safety premium of 3.75\% which peaks at 16% annualized for periods of 20 days after landfall. The safety premium is greater than the short...
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We study the role of international financial integration in buffering natural disaster shocks, using a large sample of … and economic conditions. We document that integration improves shock absorption: output, consumption, and investment are … significantly higher after a shock in states of high integration than in states of low integration. However, the benefits of …
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The standard real-options model predicts that increased uncertainty discourages investment. When projects are large and take time to build, however, this prediction can be reversed. We investigate the investment/uncertainty relationship empirically using historical data on opening dates of new...
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Globally, the rise of new and unexpected risks and shocks has impacted stable and poor societies alike, and some, especially the latter, have become increasingly dysfunctional. The Philippines is peculiarly challenged to build economic resilience as indicated by its high-risk exposure and...
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