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sectors via the destruction of capital stocks and jumps in risk premia. These disruptions often entail negative feedback … effects on the macroeconomy. Research on disaster risks has also actively been pursued in the macroeconomic models of climate … change. Our paper uses insights from the former work to study disaster risks in the macroeconomics of climate change and to …
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natural catastrophes. Amidst budgetary cuts, there is a growing concern on societies' ability to design solvent disaster …
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costs but also to natural disaster risks. Costly insurance and charity donation both lead to low insurance purchase. While …
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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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natural disasters are shared internationally to a generally very limited extent. This finding of home bias in disaster risk … international sharing of disaster risk. For advanced economies, a lack of international risk-sharing is correlated with a lack of … room to manoeuvre to do so. At high levels of public debt, a lack of ex ante insurance can turn disaster risk into …
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common than official flood maps would predict, suggesting that local knowledge may also mitigate disaster impacts. …
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Recent theoretical work in the economics of climate change has suggested that climate policy is highly sensitive to 'fat-tailed' risks of catastrophic outcomes (Weitzman, 2009). Such risks are suggested to be an inevitable consequence of scientific uncertainty about the effects of increased...
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