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Goodspeed, Timothy J. - 2013

disaster. The paper concludes by reflecting on what we know about whether policies to confront natural disasters should be …

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Natural disaster impacts and fiscal decentralization

Skidmore, Mark; Toya, Hideki - In: Land economics : applied research on environmental resources 89 (2013) 1, pp. 101-117

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Uncertainty and insurance in endogenous climate change

Müller-Fürstenberger, Georg; Schumacher, Ingmar - 2009

We investigate the economic impact of stochastic endogenous extreme events and insurance in a growth model. Our analytical results and computational experiments show that i) transparency of the insurance sector is the decisive requisite for abatement activities, implying substantial policy...

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Climate change, sea level rise, and coastal disasters : a review of modeling practices

Bosello, Francesco; De Cian, Enrica - 2013

The climate change impacts on sea level rise and coastal disasters, and the possible adaptation responses have been studied using very different approaches, such as very detailed site-specific engineering studies and global macroeconomic assessments of costal zones vulnerability. This paper...

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Triggers of contract breach : contract design, shocks, or institutions?

Nose, Manabu - 2014

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Catastrophic natural disasters and economic growth

Cavallo, Eduardo A.; Galiani, Sebastián; Noy, Ilan; … - 2010

This paper examines the short and long-run average causal impact of catastrophic natural disasters on economic growth by combining information from comparative case studies. The counterfactual of the cases studied is assessed by constructing synthetic control groups, taking advantage of the fact...

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The economics of natural disasters : a survey

Cavallo, Eduardo A.; Noy, Ilan - 2009

main disaster data sources available, discusses the determinants of the direct effects of disasters, and distinguishes …

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Direct and indirect effects of weather experiences on life satisfaction : which role for climate change expectations?

Osberghaus, Daniel; Kühling, Jan - 2014

This paper deals with the effect of (i) damage experience from extreme weather events and (ii) expectations concerning future climate change on subjective wellbeing (SWB). We use data of a large representative survey amongst German households. The effect of experienced weather events on SWB of...

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Naturally negative : the growth effects of natural disasters

Felbermayr, Gabriel; Gröschl, Jasmin Katrin - 2013

literature does not offer conclusive evidence. Most existing studies use disaster data drawn from damage records of insurance … GDP. We build a comprehensive database of disaster events and their intensities from primary geophysical and … effect of disasters on growth. The worst 5% disaster years come with a growth damage of at least 0.45 percentage points. That …

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Public sector corruption and the probability of technological disasters

Yamamura, Eiji - In: Economics of governance 14 (2013) 3, pp. 233-255

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