This paper studies the theoretical effects of changes in disaster risk on macroeconomic variables in five Latin … American economies. It compares country-specific variants of the New Keynesian model with disaster risk developed by Isoré and … less vulnerable to disaster risk shocks, as compared to Chile and Colombia in particular. Overall, the analysis suggests …

The standard approach to 'nowcast' disaster impacts, which relies on risk models, does not typically account for the … nowcasting, and for post-disaster damage assessment. We focus on Fiji and on its agriculture sector, and on tropical cyclones … be used for both nowcasting and post-disaster damage assessments. …

their place of residence after the disaster when they lived nearer to Fukushima, (2) the effect of the disaster on intention …

. 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 …