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Catastrophic Natural Disasters and Economic Growth
Cavallo, Eduardo A. - 2013
We examine the short and long run average causal impact of catastrophic natural disasters on economic growth by combining information from comparative case studies. We assess the counterfactual of the cases studied by constructing synthetic control groups taking advantage of the fact that the...
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Do Natural Disasters Have Long-Term Effects on Growth?
Jaramillo, Christian R. - 2010
the relationship between different measures of natural disaster impact and long-run economic growth. The sample is … of the first regressions show that for some of the groups of countries the disaster impact persists beyond the 2-5 years …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014198594
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Naturally Negative : The Growth Effects of Natural Disasters
Felbermayr, Gabriel - 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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010199740
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Unraveling the effects of tropical cyclones on economic sectors worldwide
Kunze, Sven - 2018 - This version: August 2018
This paper unravels the contemporaneous, lagged, and indirect effects of tropical cyclones on annual sectoral growth worldwide. The main explanatory variable is an area weighted measure for local tropical cyclone intensity based on meteorological data, which is included in a panel analysis for a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011894576
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Natural catastrophes and financial development : an empirical analysis
Horváth, Roman - 2020
We estimate the causal effect of natural catastrophes on financial development. We focus on largest catastrophes in developing economies in 1960-2016, employ synthetic control method to compute the counterfactual and use the credit to GDP ratio as the measure of financial development. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012242866
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Unraveling the effects of tropical cyclones on economic sectors worldwide : direct and indirect impacts
Kunze, Sven - 2020
This paper unravels the contemporaneous, lagged, and indirect effects of tropical cyclones on annual sectoral growth worldwide. The main explanatory variable is an area weighted measure for local tropical cyclone intensity based on meteorological data, which is included in a panel analysis for a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012224819
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Shaken, not stunted? : global evidence on natural disasters, child growth and recovery
Cruzatti, John; Rieger, Matthias - 2024
A substantial share of the world's children reside in disaster-prone areas and suffer from stunted growth. Child growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015077932
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What methods may be used in impact evaluations of humanitarian assistance?
Puri, Jyotsna; Aladysheva, Anastasia; Iversen, Vegard; … - 2015
Despite the widespread occurrence of humanitarian emergencies such as epidemics, earthquakes, droughts, floods and violent conflict and despite the significant financial resources devoted to humanitarian assistance, systematic learning from such interventions using rigorous theory-based impact...
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The impact of floods on firms' performance
Coelli, Federica; Manasse, Paolo - 2014
disaster event. Considering both the flood and the aid treatment, we construct four mutually exclusive and exhaustive groups …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011730018