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Flood Risks, Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Benefits in Mumbai : An Initial Assessment of Socio-Economic Consequences of Present and Climate Change Induced Flood Risks and o...
Hallegatte, Stéphane; Ranger, Nicola; Bhattacharya, Sumana - 2010
, we show that by extending insurance to 100% penetration, the indirect effects of flooding could be almost halved. As …
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Disaster Risk
Boccard, Nicolas - 2020
The United Nations Sendai (2015) framework aims to reduce disaster risk. We offer a careful definition and computation of the individual and property risk targets. Selecting the largest and better studied class of “natural disasters” over the period 1970-2018, we show that individual risk is...
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The Economic Cost of Terrorism and Natural Disasters : A Deeper Analysis of the Financial Markets of Pakistan
Mushtaq, Rizwan - 2018
Stock Exchange-100 index), Banking, and Insurance sectors. We calculated the abnormal returns with the help of market … insurance sector returns, while insignificant impact on KSE-100 index. Natural disasters have an insignificant impact on stock … insurance and stock market returns. Earthquakes showed a negative effect on the stock market returns whilst no significant …
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Could/should Jubilee debt cancellations be reintroduced today?
Hudson, Michael; Goodhart, Charles A. E. - 2018
debt/credit relationships are intermediated via financial institutions, such as banks, insurance companies, etc., rather …
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Could/should Jubilee debt cancellations be reintroduced today? If not, what alternative measures of debt relief and redistribution might be possible?
Hudson, Michael; Goodhart, Charles A. E. - 2018
debt/credit relationships are intermediated via financial institutions, such as banks, insurance companies, etc., rather …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011873351
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Assessing direct and indirect economic impacts of a flood event through the integration of spatial and computable general equilibrium modelling
Carrera, Lorenzo; Standardi, Gabriele; Bosello, Francesco; … - 2014
In this paper we developed and tested an integrated methodology for assessing direct and indirect economic impacts of flooding. The methodology combines a spatial analysis of damage to physical stocks with a general economic equilibrium approach using a regionally-calibrated (to Italy) version...
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The impact of natural disasters on economic growth
Cavallo, Eduardo A.; Becerra, Oscar; Acevedo, Laura - 2021
This paper estimates the impact of catastrophic natural disasters on economic growth using an event study methodology on a country panel dataset from 1970 to 2019. The severity of the events is determined by the associated mortality. We find that affected economies-which, given the way natural...
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Managing the impact of climate on migration : evidence from Mexico
Chort, Isabelle; De La Rupelle, Maëlys - 2022
While there is a growing literature on the impact of climate and weather-related events on migration, little is known about the mitigating effect of different policies directed to the agricultural sector, or aimed at insuring against environmental disasters. This paper uses state-level data on...
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Climate change, armed conflicts and resilience
D'Angeli, Mariagrazia; Marin, Giovanni; Paglialunga, Elena - 2022
In recent years, there has been rapid development of the literature linking climate change and armed conflicts. Although no conclusionary evidence has been found of a direct link between climate change and armed conflicts, still climate change has been addressed as an important trigger,...
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The impact of floods on firms' performance
Coelli, Federica; Manasse, Paolo - 2014
We estimate the short-run impact of a major flood that hit the region of Veneto in 2010 on firms' performance. Using firm level data and a difference in difference approach we compare the value added growth of hit firms to the one of a control group of companies that are not exposed to the...
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