Barone, Guglielmo; Mocetti, Sauro - In: Journal of Urban Economics 84 (2014) C, pp. 52-66
We examine the impact of natural disasters on GDP per capita by applying the synthetic control approach and using a within-country perspective. Our analysis encompasses two large-scale earthquakes that occurred in two different Italian regions in 1976 and 1980. We show that the short-term...