Despite escalating disaster losses and predicted increases in weather-related catastrophes, takeup of protective … across jurisdictions and vintages reveal remarkable resilience effects of building codes initially prompted by the deadly …

specifically target extreme weather events. This paper shows that US hurricanes lead to substantial increases in non-disaster … hurricane. The present value of this increase significantly exceeds that of direct disaster aid. This implies, among other …

quality of aid delivered and social agendas pursued across neighboring villages in a set disaster context. We model the …

following the hurricane. However, by the second and third years after the disaster, Katrina evacuees displaced from Orleans …

disaster in modern European history. It occurred when overseas mass emigration from southern Italy was at its peak and … international borders were open, making emigration a widespread phenomenon and a readily available option for disaster relief. We … the disaster through migration. Nonetheless, relative to the effects of ordinary shocks, such as a recession in the …

impact of COVID-19. A costly disaster series is constructed over the sample 1980:1-2020:04 and the dynamic impact of a … disaster shock on economic activity and on uncertainty is studied using a VAR. While past natural disasters are local in nature … of large disaster shocks. Even in a fairly conservative case where COVID-19 is a 5-month shock with its magnitude …