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This study provides new causal evidence for the impact of a large-scale natural disaster on local economic activity in … disaster relief during the reformist government of President Khatami, the political trust and mobilization of civil society in …, economic activity in Bam County returns to its pre-disaster development path after seven years. …
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This study provides new causal evidence for the impact of a large-scale natural disaster on local economic activity in … disaster relief during the reformist government of President Khatami, the political trust and mobilization of civil society in …, economic activity in Bam County returns to its pre-disaster development path after seven years …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014347828
related to injury, illness and death suffered as a result of the disaster - are relatively straightforward, the indirect … effects will depend on household decision-making in the aftermath of the disaster. Treating human capital as a long …
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This study explores people's risk attitudes after having suffered large real-world losses following a natural disaster … is consistent with prospect theory predictions of the adoption of a risk-seeking attitude after a loss. -- Decision under … Risk ; Large Losses ; Natural Experiment …
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We specify a stochastic economy-climate model, adapting Nordhaus' deterministic economy-climate model by allowing for Weitzman-type stochasticity. We show that, under expected power utility, the model is fragile to heavy-tailed distributional assumptions and we derive necessary and sufficient...
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This study explores people's risk attitudes after having suffered large real-world losses following a natural disaster … is consistent with prospect theory predictions of the adoption of a risk-seeking attitude after a loss …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013103582
Using detailed micro-level data, we show that individuals' beliefs about climate change influence their choice and level of flood insurance coverage. Our empirical strategy exploits the heterogeneous impact of widening partisan polarization on climate change beliefs after the 2016 general...
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-free and are relevant to many fields encountering catastrophic risk analysis, such as, perhaps most noticeably, insurance and … risk management …
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financed centrally. This paper builds a model of portfolio allocation with heterogeneity in disaster risk exposure, and with a … discrimination by risk exposure is unfeasible. In this situation, the model shows that the regulator is willing to invest … of nuclear risk in France …
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When data include extremes, finite expectations may not exist and rational policymaking fails. We apply methods from Extreme Value Theory to data on mortality rates from respiratory contagions for the US and the world over the 30 years immediately preceding COVID-19. This allows us to ask: Did...
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