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thispaper show that after the initial shock of foreign exchange reserves,the exchange rate appreciation occurs, which can be …
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African countries have accumulated substantial foreign currency reserves in recent years, mostly from higher commodity exports as well as aid flows. In the context of macroeconomic stabilization, which remains at the forefront of national economic policymaking and aid conditionality, African...
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Using a unique dataset on daily foreign exchange intervention and a new methodological framework of a latent factor model of central bank intervention, this paper addresses the effects of intervention in an emerging market. Events in financial markets from 2002 to 2010 provide a natural...
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This study provides new causal evidence for the impact of a large-scale natural disaster on local economic activity in … to 2020 for 31 provinces and 429 counties to study the impact of the 2003 Bam earthquake in the Iranian Kerman Province … statistically significant boost in economic activity in the years following the earthquake. This increase in local economic activity …
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January 12, 2010 earthquake that struck Haiti. Damages are estimated for a disaster with both 200,000 and 250,000 total dead … and missing (i.e., the range of mortality that the earthquake is estimated to have caused) using Haiti s economic and …
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This paper examines the effect of the L'Aquila earthquake on the academic performance of the students of the local … of L'Aquila before and after the earthquake with changes in educational outcomes during the same time period among … students enrolled at other Central Italian universities. The empirical results suggest that while this natural disaster has …
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Using the 1988 earthquake in Nepal as a natural experiment, we examine the long-term repercussions of a large exogenous … physical shock on human capital accumulation. We exploit the quasi-random spatial and temporal nature of ground tremors to … evaluate the long-term impact of earthquake on educational outcomes among affected children of rural Nepal. Results show that …
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This paper examines the effect of the L'Aquila earthquake on the academic performance of the students of the local … of L'Aquila before and after the earthquake with changes in educational outcomes during the same time period among … students enrolled at other Central Italian universities. The empirical results suggest that while this natural disaster has …
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negligible if the country affected by a disaster is small but sizable for large economies. Similar disasters have heterogeneous …We estimate the short-run trade effects of natural disasters using monthly trade data and data on the physical … intensity of earthquakes and storms. We find large negative effects for heavily indebted poor, least developed or landlocked …
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