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Growth at risk from natural disasters
Bayoumi, Tamim A.; Quayyum, Saad Noor; Das, Sibabrata - 2021
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Home bias in humanitarian aid : the role of regional favoritism in the allocation of international disaster relief
Bommer, Christian; Dreher, Axel; Pérez-Alvarez, Marcello - 2019
Office of US Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA), we show that substantially larger amounts of aid are disbursed when natural …
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Home bias in humanitarian aid : the role of regional favoritism in the allocation of international disaster relief
Bommer, Christian; Dreher, Axel; Pérez-Alvarez, Marcello - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012183646
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Fifty years of peril : a comprehensive comparison of the impact of terrorism and disasters linked to natural hazards (1970-2019)
Wilson, Timothy; Noy, Ilan - 2022
We compare the realised impact of terrorism and disasters linked to natural hazards. Using fifty years of data from two databases covering 99 percent of the global population, we find that natural hazard disasters were more then 20 times more impactful than terrorism. The former had a larger...
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Impact of behavioral issues on green growth policies and weather-related disaster reduction in developing countries
Kunreuther, Howard; Michel-Kerjan, Erwann - 2012
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Impact of behavioral issues on green growth policies and weather-related disaster reduction in developing countries
Kunreuther, Howard; Michel-Kerjan, Erwann - 2012
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Preventing environmental disasters : market-based vs. command-and-control policies
Lamperti, Francesco; Napoletano, Mauro; Roventini, Andrea - 2015
The paper compares the effects of market-based and command-and-control climate policies on the direction of technical change and the prevention of environmental disasters. Drawing on the model proposed in Acemoglu et al. (2012, American Economic Review), we show that market-based policies...
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A disaster under-(re)insurance puzzle : home bias in disaster risk-bearing
Itō, Hiro; McCauley, Robert N. - 2019
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Price shocks in disaster : the Great Kantō Earthquake in Japan,1923
Hunter, Janet; Ogasawara, Kota - 2016
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Sendai framework for disaster risk reduction : success or warning sign for Paris?
Myšiak, Jaroslav; Surminski, Swenja; Thieken, Annegret; … - 2015
the end of the Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (WCDRR, March 14 - 18, 2015). We review and discuss …In March 2015, a new international blueprint for disaster risk reduction (DRR) has been adopted in Sendai, Japan, at …
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