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Shaking up the firm survival : evidence from Yogyakarta (Indonesia)

Brata, Aloysius Gunadi; Groot, Henri L. F. de; Zant, Wouter - 2018

The survival of firms under changes in the business environment caused by exogenous shocks may be explained using economic Darwinism. Exogenous shocks can cause "cleansing effects" as shocks clean out unproductive firms so that available resources are allocated to the remaining more productive...

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Shaking up the firm survival : evidence from Yogyakarta (Indonesia)

Brata, Aloysius Gunadi; Groot, Henri L. F. de; Zant, Wouter - In: Economies : open access journal 6 (2018) 2, pp. 1-14

The survival of firms under changes in the business environment caused by exogenous shocks can be explained using economic Darwinism. Exogenous shocks can cause ‘cleansing effects’. Shocks clean out unproductive firms so that available resources are allocated to the remaining more productive...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011853763

Reallocating children's time : coping strategies after the 2010 Haiti earthquake

Novella, Rafael; Zanuso, Claire - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 8 (2018) 4, pp. 1-32

This paper estimates the impact of the 2010 Haiti earthquake on the household decision about children’s time allocation. Using original data and objective geological measures, we exploit the fact that the earthquake might affect the decision about children’s time through its magnitude and...

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Change in time preferences : evidence from the Great East Japan Earthquake

Akesaka, Mika - 2018

This study examines whether individuals' time preferences are affected by the damage resulting from the tsunami in the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011, using panel surveys before and after the earthquake. When the change in time preferences is measured using the (â, ä) model, I find that...

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Natural disasters and regional development : the case of earthquakes

Fabian, Marius; Lessmann, Christian; Sofke, Tim - 2019

We analyze the impact of earthquakes on nighttime lights at a sub-national level, i.e. on grids of different size. We … geophysical event data on earthquakes together with satellite nighttime lights. Using panel fixed effects regressions covering the … entire world for the period 1992-2013 we find that earthquakes reduce both light growth rates and light levels significantly …

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We need land first : identifying local needs for sustainable recovery after the 2015 Gorkha earthquake, Nepal

He, Lulu - 2018

The aim of this study is to identify needs for recovery from people's perspectives under a localized context following the 2015 earthquake in Nepal. A qualitative approach was applied to collecting and processing data which consist of 114 semi-structured interviews with earthquake-resettled...

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Benefit in the wake of disaster: Long-run effects of earthquakes on welfare in rural Indonesia

Gignoux, Jérémie; Menendez, Marta - DIAL - 2014

We examine the long-term effects on individual economic outcomes of a set of earthquakes – numerous, large, but mostly … identify the effects of earthquakes, exploiting the quasi-random spatial and temporal nature of their distribution. Affected …

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Natural disasters and human mobility

Mbaye, Linguère Mously; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2016

This paper reviews the effect of natural disasters on human mobility or migration. Although there is an increase of natural disasters and migration recently and more patterns to observe, the relationship remains complex. While some authors find that disasters increase migration, others show that...

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Measuring the Impact of Insurance on Urban Recovery with Light : The 2010-2011 New Zealand Earthquakes

Cuong, Nguyen Van - 2018

We measure the longer-term effect of a major earthquake on the local economy, using night-time light intensity measured from space, and investigate whether insurance claim payments for damaged residential property affected the local recovery process. We focus on the destructive Canterbury...

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Feeling is Believing? Evidence from Earthquake Shaking Experience and Insurance Demand

Lin, Xiao - 2019

This paper investigates how a particular type of personal experience -- “no-loss” experience with minor earthquakes …

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