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Natural Disasters and the Economy — A Survey
Cavallo, Eduardo; Noy, Ilan - In: International Review of Environmental and Resource Economics 5 (2011) 1, pp. 63-102
This paper surveys the state of the economic literature examining the aggregate impacts of natural disasters. The paper reviews the main disaster data sources available, discusses the determinants of the direct effects of disasters, and distinguishes between short- and long-run indirect effects....
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The economics of natural disasters : a survey
Cavallo, Eduardo A.; Noy, Ilan - 2009
economic development and growth is still in its infancy. In order to facilitate further necessary research on this topic, this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010247143
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The Economics of Natural Disasters: A Survey
Cavallo, Eduardo; Noy, Ilan - 2009
economic development and growth is still in its infancy. In order to facilitate further necessary research on this topic, this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328244
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The Economics of Natural Disasters: A Survey
Cavallo, Eduardo Alfredo; Noy, Ilan - Inter-American Development Bank - 2009
economic development and growth is still in its infancy. In order to facilitate further necessary research on this topic, this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008554074
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The Economics of Natural Disasters - A Survey
Cavallo, Eduardo; Noy, Ilan - Department of Economics, University of Hawaii-Manoa - 2009
to economic development and growth is still at its infancy. In order to facilitate further necessary research on this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008550017
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What do exogenous shocks tell us about growth theories?
Noy, Ilan; Nualsri, Aekkanush - 2007
The sources of economic growth and development have been puzzling economists from the modern dawn of the profession …. While the Solow-Swan neo-classical model dominated research on growth in the 1960s and 1970s, the 1980s saw the emergence of … growth theories that disputed, largely on theoretical grounds, the Solow-Swan assumptions and conclusions. In this paper, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003855329
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Debt, Growth and Natural Disasters a Caribbean Trilogy
Acevedo Mejia, Sebastian - 2014
have a negative effect on growth, and that debt increases with floods but not with storms. However, in a subsample I find …
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The economic impact of tropical cyclones : case studies in general equilibrium
Lehtomaa, Jere; Renoir, Clément - 2023
We present a new framework for estimating the long-run economic impacts of natural disasters. Our approach combines a disaster impact model with a general equilibrium model of the economy. We apply the methodology to study the effects of tropical cyclones in the United States, the Caribbean...
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Adaptation to climate change and economic growth in developing countries
Millner, Antony; Dietz, Simon - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015
Developing countries are vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change, yet there is disagreement about what they should do to protect themselves from antic- ipated damages. In particular, it is unclear what the optimal balance is between investments in traditional productive capital...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126276
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Climate change and economic growth in sub-Sahara Africa: A nonparametric evidence
Alagidede, Paul; Adu, George - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2014
on sustainable economic growth in SSA using nonparametric regression techniques. We establish the following: the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010929134