We examine the distributional impact of major dams on cropland productivity in Africa. As our unit of analysis we use a scientifically based spatial breakdown of the continent that allows one to exactly define regions in terms of their upstream/downstream relationship at a highly disaggregated...

As a tool to fight long run changes in climate the European Union explicitly introduced the emission trading scheme (EU ETS) on January 1, 2005, which aimed at reducing carbon emission by 8% by 2012, and was designed to operate in two phases. Using data related to the first phase, this article...

We show that the relationship between wealth and economic losses due to natural disasters is strongly linked to disaster risk. We first build an analytical model that demonstrates how countries that face a low hazard of disasters are likely to see first increasing losses and then decreasing ones...

We estimate for the first time the impact of hurricane strikes on local economic growth rates and how this is reflected in more aggregate growth patterns. To this end we assemble a panel data set of US coastal counties' growth rates and construct a novel hurricane destruction index that is based...

We examine the impact of hurricane strikes on the construction industry in US counties. To this end we use a measure of hurricane destruction derived from a wind field model and historical hurricane track data and employ this within a dynamic labour demand framework. Our results show that...

Relying on census data collected in 2002 and historical weather data for Uganda, we estimate the impact of weather-induced internal migration on the probability for non-migrants living in the destination regions to be employed. Consistent with the pre- diction of a simple theoretical model, our...

Dans quelle mesure la finance de marché peut-elle compléter les évaluations des actions stratégiques plus traditionnelles en finance d'entreprise ? Pour répondre à cette question nous avons voulu appliquer la méthode des études d'événement à une action stratégique novatrice : le...

Dans un contexte de croissance des disparités sociales et spatiales, la question de l'accessibilité de tous à la ville et à ses services est posée, notamment pour les personnes à faible revenu. L'objectif de notre recherche est donc de tester en quoi le système de transport, et notamment...

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This communication is devoted to the performance evaluation of new numerical differentiators, of algebraic flavor, which lead to the solution of many pending questions in control, signal and finance. The continuous-time expression of such a differentiator is an integral over a short time window...