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Macroeconomics of natural disasters
Bergeijk, Peter A.G. van; Lazzaroni, Lazzaroni, S. - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2013
We use the case of the impact of natural disasters to analyse strengths and weaknesses of meta-analysis in an emerging research field. Macroeconomists have published on this issue since 2002 (we identified 22 studies to date). The results of the studies are contradictory and therefore the need...
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Are CGE models reliable for disaster impact analyses?
Zhou, Lei; Chen, Zhenhua - In: Economic systems research 33 (2021) 1, pp. 20-46
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012515785
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Operational Plan for Integrated Disaster Risk Management 2014–2020
Asian Development Bank; Asian Development Bank (ADB) - 2014
The Operational Plan for Integrated Disaster Risk Management, 2014–2020 seeks to strengthen disaster resilience in the …, investing in disaster resilience, and engaging stakeholders. …
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The Economic Impacts of Direct Natural Disaster Exposure
Johar, Meliyanni; Johnston, David W.; Shields, Michael A.; … - 2020
find that around 20% of the population have low resilience to financial shocks, and for these individuals we find a …
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Assessing the supply chain effect of natural disasters: Evidence from Chinese manufacturers
Längle, Katharina; Xu, Ankai; Tian, Ruijie - 2021
firm sourcing diversification as a way to increase resilience to adverse shocks. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012619945
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How Do Institutions Affect the Impact of Natural Disasters?
Bos, Jaap W.B.; Gröschl, Jasmin; Lamers, Martien; Li, … - 2022
In this paper we study how differences in the quality of countries' institutions affect the impact of natural hazards in these countries. To do so, we first build a new data set that allows us to adequately control for countries' development and geological characteristics and, importantly,...
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The effect of natural disasters on tourism demand, supply and labour markets: Evidence from La Palma volcano eruption
Leoni, Veronica; Boto-García, David - 2022
This paper studies the short-term impact of a volcano eruption on tourism demand, supply, and hospitality labour in La Palma (Spain), an island economy that is highly dependent on the tourism sector. Based on a monthly panel dataset at the touristic zone level, we use SeeminglyUnrelated...
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Risks, shocks, building resilience: Philippines
Llanto, Gilberto M. - 2016
resilience as indicated by its high-risk exposure and vulnerability. The objective of this paper is to point to policymakers the … importance of resilience thinking and the formulation of appropriate policy interventions to build economic resilience … shocks. This is to say that such policies should be underpinned by policy analysis and research on resilience systems. There …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011784782
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Resilience to Disaster: Evidence from Daily Wellbeing Data
Frijters, Paul; Johnston, David W.; Knott, Rachel; … - 2021
habitation of at-risk areas, it is important to understand people's resilience to them. We quantify resilience by estimating how … exhibit less resilience. We find no evidence that existing indices of community resilience moderate impacts. Our conclusion is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012597366
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Operational indicators for assessing vulnerability and resilience in the context of natural hazards and disasters
Ainuddin, Syed; Routray, Jayant Kumar; Ainuddin, Shabana - In: International journal of risk assessment and management … 18 (2015) 1, pp. 66-88
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