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Tax incentives in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina

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Expectations of government’s response to disaster

Chamlee-Wright, Emily; Storr, Virgil Henry - In: Public choice 144 (2010) 1/2, pp. 253-274

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The Social Value of Hurricane Forecasts

Molina, Renato; Rudik, Ivan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

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...

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The impact of socio-economics and climate change on tropical cyclone losses in the USA

Schmidt, Silvio (contributor); Kemfert, Claudia (contributor) - 2008

Tropical cyclones that make landfall on the coast of the USA are causing increasing economic losses. It is assumed that … 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 …