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-Economic Panel that we combine with geographic flood data, we compare the savings behavior of affected and non-affected individuals …While various empirical studies have found negative growth-effects of natural disasters, little is yet known about the … microeconomic channels through which disasters might affect short- and especially long-term growth. This paper contributes to …
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-Economic Panel that we combine with geographic flood data, we compare the savings behavior of affected and non-affected individuals …While various empirical studies have found negative growth-effects of natural disasters, little is yet known about the … microeconomic channels through which disasters might affect short- and especially long-term growth. This paper contributes to …
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at its role during natural disasters. This article exploits the exogenous nature of the 2013 European floods to assess if …
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In the course of the ongoing process of climate change, natural disasters like storms, floods and droughts become more … likely and/or more severe. While there is a growing macroeconomic literature on the growth-effects of natural disasters … especially long-run growth. This paper contributes to filling this gap in the literature by studying behavioural responses to the …
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control group of companies that are not exposed to the flood. The results indicate that the value added growth of affected … 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 …
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This paper explores the impact of foreign aid on economic growth using variation in aid inflows from natural disasters …. Because using a country's own disaster exposure as an instrument for aid inflows violates exogeneity assumptions, I instead … use the disaster exposure of a country's "aid neighbors," defined as its competitors for aid from donors. Using aid …
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Mozambique is among the most disaster-prone countries in the world. A bigger than usual, and mostly unexpected, flood … those months to assess the short-term impact of the 2015 flood on household consumption and poverty levels. Applying a … difference-in-difference approach, we find that, for those exposed to the flood, consumption reduced significantly in the short …
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model to the 2000 Po river flood. To account for the uncertainty in the induced effects on regional economies, we explored … losses, and ii) the model is able to capture both positive and negative economic effects of a disaster in different areas of …
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The climate change impacts on sea level rise and coastal disasters, and the possible adaptation responses have been studied using very different approaches, such as very detailed site-specific engineering studies and global macroeconomic assessments of costal zones vulnerability. This paper...
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to flood risk in Mumbai. In 2005, Mumbai experienced unprecedented flooding, causing direct economic damages estimated at … consequences of the 2005 floods on the marginalized population reveals the special vulnerability of the poorest, which is not … that total losses to the marginalized population from the 2005 floods could lie around $250 million, which represents a …
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