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An economic analysis of climate adaptations to hurricane risk in St. Lucia
Ou-Yang, Chieh; Kunreuther, Howard; Michel-Kerjan, Erwann - In: The Geneva papers on risk and insurance - issues and … 38 (2013) 3, pp. 521-546
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How bad are weather disasters for banks?
Blickle, Kristian; Hamerling, Sarah N.; Morgan, Donald P. - 2021
common than official flood maps would predict, suggesting that local knowledge may also mitigate disaster impacts. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012660373
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Social inequalities in climate change-attributed impacts of hurricane harvey
Smiley, Kevin T.; Noy, Ilan; Wehner, Michael; Frame, Dave; … - 2021
Climate change is already increasing the severity of extreme weather events such as with rainfall during hurricanes. But no research to date investigates if, and to what extent, there are social inequalities in current climate change-attributed flood impacts. Here, we use climate change...
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Hurricanes, flood risk and the economic adaptation of businesses
Indaco, Agustín; Ortega, Francesc; Taṣpınar, Süleyman - 2019
This paper argues that increases in perceived flood risk entail a negative and persistent shock to local economic activity. Our analysis is based on a rich administrative dataset that contains all business establishments in New York City around the time of hurricane Sandy. Our data also...
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Tropical storms and mortality under climate change
Pugatch, Todd - 2019
effect of tropical storm frequency and severity on mortality using objective meteorological data and the universe of vital … statistics records from a large developing country, Mexico. Using a measure of storm exposure that accounts for both windspeed … dispersion and population density along the storm track, I project changes in past storm-related mortality under various …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012162952
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Tropical storms and mortality under climate change
Pugatch, Todd - 2019
effect of tropical storm frequency and severity on mortality using objective meteorological data and the universe of vital … statistics records from a large developing country, Mexico. Using a measure of storm exposure that accounts for both windspeed … dispersion and population density along the storm track, I project changes in past storm-related mortality under various …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011977438
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The impact of disaster data on estimating damage determinants and climate costs
Bakkensen, Laura A.; Shi, Xiangying; Zurita, Brianna D. - In: Economics of disasters and climate change 2 (2018) 1, pp. 49-71
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Climate change and commercial real estate : evidence from Hurricane Sandy
Addoum, Jawad M.; Eichholtz, Piet; Steiner, Eva; … - In: Real estate economics 52 (2024) 3, pp. 687-713
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The economic impact of tropical cyclones : case studies in general equilibrium
Lehtomaa, Jere; Renoir, Clément - 2023
disaster impact model with a general equilibrium model of the economy. We apply the methodology to study the effects of … post-disaster recovery after a single shock can take several decades, with notable cumulative negative effects for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014251945
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The social value of predicting hurricanes
Molina, Renato; Rudik, Ivan - 2022
Hurricanes are among the costliest natural disasters in the world, with a significant portion of their impact linked to the accuracy of their forecasts. In this paper, we estimate the economic impacts of the official hurricane forecasts in the US and develop a new approach for measuring the...
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