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effects on the macroeconomy. Research on disaster risks has also actively been pursued in the macroeconomic models of climate … change. Our paper uses insights from the former work to study disaster risks in the macroeconomics of climate change and to … spell out policy needs. Empirically, the link between carbon dioxide emission and the frequency of climate related disaster …
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Despite overwhelming scientific evidence for man-made climate change, many people remain skeptical. While this phenomenon of `climate-skepticism' prevents implementation of environmental policies around the globe, it is ignored in economic models of climate change. In this paper I fill this gap...
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post-disaster relief and recovery efforts. This paper estimates the effects of severe natural disasters on fiscal revenues … and expenditure in PICs. These are combined with information on the frequency of large disasters to calculate the rate of … budgetary savings needed to build appropriate fiscal buffers. Fiscal buffers provide self-insurance against natural disaster …
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common than official flood maps would predict, suggesting that local knowledge may also mitigate disaster impacts. …
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