the disaster. The response to hurricanes does not seem to be driven by logrolling behavior or lobbysts' pressure. The …This paper studies how politicians and voters respond to new information on the threats of climate change. Using data … on the universe of federal disaster declarations between 1989 and 2014, we document that congress members from districts …

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

What is the impact and value of hurricane forecasts? We study this question using newly-collected forecast data for … major US hurricanes since 2005. We find higher wind speed forecasts increase pre-landfall protective spending, but erroneous … under-forecasts increase post-landfall damage and rebuilding expenditures. Our main contribution is a new theoretically …

concerned play in the observed increase in losses. For analysis purposes, storm loss is depicted as a function of the value of … material assets affected by the storm (the capital stock) and storm intensity. The findings show the increase in losses due to … cyclones ; climate change ; socio-economic impact ; storm damage function …