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This paper reviews the effect of natural disasters on human mobility or migration. Although there is an increase of natural disasters and migration recently and more patterns to observe, the relationship remains complex. While some authors find that disasters increase migration, others show that...
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In this paper, we test the effect of weather shocks and floods on urban social disorder for a panel of large cities in … hypothesis using a novel dataset on floods−distinguishing those that affected large cities directly from those that occurred … outside of our sample of large cities. Floods are found to be associated with faster growth of the population in the city, and …
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We study whether floods can affect financial stability through a credit risk channel. Our focus is on the Netherlands … floods. Using geocoded data for close to EUR 650 billion in real estate exposures, we consider possible implications of such … floods for bank capital. For a set of 38 adverse scenarios, we estimate that flood-related property damages lead to capital …
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