Search Results - subject:"STORM"

Banks versus hurricanes : a case study of Puerto Rico after hurricanes Irma and Maria

Anagnostakos, Peter; Bram, Jason; Chan, Benjamin; … - 2023

We study Puerto Rico's experience after the severe hurricane season of 2017 to better understand how extreme weather disasters affect bank stability and their ability to lend. Despite the devastation wrought by two category 5 hurricanes in a single month, we find relatively modest and transitory...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014440762

Climate risks in the U.S. banking sector : evidence from operational losses and extreme storms

Berger, Allen N.; Curti, Filippo; Lazaryan, Nika; … - 2023

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014445463

Review of disaster riskscape of Democratic People's Republic of Korea

Vereinte Nationen / Economic and Social Commission for … - 2023

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014448542

Modeling tropical cyclone risk while accounting for climate change and natural infrastructure in the Caribbean

Reguero, Borja G.; Menéndez Fernández, Pelayo; … - 2023

This chapter describes tools and a methodology to model wind and flood risks from tropical storms under present and future climate accounting for natural infrastructure. Wind forcing provide a crucial link to hydrodynamic models that can be used in risk assessments to estimate extent of and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014457899

Improving search for gasoline during a hurricane evacuation event using social media

Khare, Abhinav; Batta, Rajan; He, Qing - In: EURO journal on transportation and logistics 12 (2023), pp. 112

Panic-buying and shortages of essential commodities is common during early phases of a disaster or an epidemic. The goal of this paper is develop a methodology which includes social media information in optimization models of searching essential commodities during disasters and improves the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014518058

Impact of hurricanes on US insurance stocks

Schuh, Frederick; Jaeckle, Tanja - In: Risk management and insurance review 26 (2023) 1, pp. 5-34

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014246586

The economic impact of tropical cyclones : case studies in general equilibrium

Lehtomaa, Jere; Renoir, Clément - 2023

We present a new framework for estimating the long-run economic impacts of natural disasters. Our approach combines a disaster impact model with a general equilibrium model of the economy. We apply the methodology to study the effects of tropical cyclones in the United States, the Caribbean...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014251945

Post disaster needs assessment : Vanuatu tropical cyclones Judy and Kevin

Vanuatu / Department of Strategic Policy, Planning & … - 2023

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014314385

Market Responses to Multiple Hurricane Exposures in Martin County, Florida : Evidence from Real Estate Sales Data

Jiang, Fan; Talukdar, Bakhtear; Mozumder, Pallab - 2023

Florida is one of the most vulnerable U.S. states in terms of hurricane risk, and the real estate market is heavily influenced by hurricane events. Unlike earlier studies that consider the effect of a single hurricane exposure on property values, we consider how multiple hurricane hits affect...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014261113

Estimating the Local Labor Market Effects of Hurricanes

Schwam, Daniel; Coe, Jessie - 2023

the differential effects across impacted areas. We employ the synthetic control method at the county level on a storm-by-storm … basis to analyze both the across- and within-storm dispersion of the labor market effects of hurricanes. We use storm data … from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Storm Events database, which covers Atlantic Basin storms from …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014262732