scarring effects of the event itself. We examine survival at and in the five years after the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and … tsunami for a population-representative sample of residents of Aceh, Indonesia who were differentially exposed to the disaster …. For this population, the dynamics of selection and scarring are a complex function of the degree of tsunami impact in the …

effects of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, a shock that immediately reduced United States. GNP by 1.5-1.8 percentage points … against American finance bills. British bank policy pushed the US into recession and set the stage for the 1907 financial … the Federal Reserve. In this study, we identify the San Francisco earthquake as the shock that triggered the chain of …

2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. Exploiting the panels of nationally representative surveys on risk preferences, we find … that men who experienced greater intensity of the Earthquake became more risk tolerant after the Earthquake. Furthermore … women. Finally, the effects on men's risk preferences are persistent even five years after the Earthquake at almost the same …

2010 earthquake in Chile and the 2011 earthquake in Japan. In both cases there was an immediate and persistent effect on … product availability. The number of goods available for sale fell 32% in Chile and 17% in Japan from the day of the disaster … Chile are consistent with pricing models where retailers have fear of "customer anger". In Japan, by contrast, the evidence …

both Japan and the U.S., innovations in stock prices that are contemporaneously orthogonal to TFP precede most of the long …

To analyze business fixed investment in Japan, which has been unusually volatile in recent years, we develop and apply …

This paper asks how a fiscal expansion would affect Japan. It uses a textbook-style macro model calibrated to fit the … Japanese economy. According to the results, Japan%u2019s output slump would be ended by a fiscal transfer of 6.6% of GDP. This …