Belasen, Ariel; Dai, Chifeng - In: The Annals of Regional Science 52 (2014) 2, pp. 325-342
We examine the impact of hurricanes in Florida on county-level taxable sales revenues. Conditional on the strength of the hurricane, within 6 months after a hurricane strikes a county, revenues decline as much as 17 %, whereas revenues in neighboring counties increase by upward of 17 % over...