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While some evidence exists on the benefits of sustainable investment for publicly traded real estate firms, little is known as to how such benefits materialize within the firm, especially on an international scale. We decompose the effects of sustainable investment on the value and performance...
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earthquakes in Italy resulted in sharply diverging electoral outcomes: while the 2012 Emilia quake did not alter voting behaviour …
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response of international reserves to shocks by using a quasi-experimental setup and focusing on earthquakes. The estimation is …
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response of international reserves to shocks by using a quasi-experimental setup and focusing on earthquakes. The estimation is …
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We analyze the impact of earthquakes on nighttime lights at a sub-national level, i.e. on grids of different size. We … geophysical event data on earthquakes together with satellite nighttime lights. Using panel fixed effects regressions covering the … entire world for the period 1992-2013 we find that earthquakes reduce both light growth rates and light levels significantly …
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better define the geographic area hit by the disaster. We examine two large-scale earthquakes that occurred in two different …
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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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This paper reviews the effect of environmental disasters on migration. Although there is an increase of environmental disasters and migration over the past years, the relationship is complex. While some authors find that environmental disasters increase migration, others show that they have only...
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This paper reviews what we know so far about climate change; the likely impacts to housing and housing finance; strategies that can mitigate climate change or adapt to the part of climate change that cannot be averted; and the things firms in housing and housing finance can do to articulate and...
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We study whether floods can affect financial stability through a credit risk channel. Our focus is on the Netherlands, a country situated partly below sea level, where insurance policies exclude property damages caused by some types of floods. Using geocoded data for close to EUR 650 billion in...
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