Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 435,303
Cover Image
Natural disasters and macroeconomic performance : the role of residential investment
Strulik, Holger; Trimborn, Timo - 2014
Recent empirical research has shown that income per capita in the aftermath of natural disasters is not necessarily lower than before the event. Income remains in many cases not significantly affected or, perhaps even more surprisingly, it responds positively to natural disasters. Here, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010255055
Cover Image
Natural disasters and macroeconomic performance
Strulik, Holger; Trimborn, Timo - 2016
Recent empirical research has shown that output and GDP per capita in the aftermath of natural disasters are not necessarily lower than before the event. In many cases, both are not significantly affected and, surprisingly, sometimes they are found to respond positively to natural disasters....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011534396
Cover Image
Natural disasters and macroeconomic performance
Strulik, Holger; Trimborn, Timo - 2016
Recent empirical research has shown that output and GDP per capita in the aftermath of natural disasters are not necessarily lower than before the event. In many cases, both are not significantly affected and, surprisingly, sometimes they are found to respond positively to natural disasters....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011535117
Cover Image
Natural disasters and macroeconomic performance: The role of residential investment
Strulik, Holger; Trimborn, Timo - 2014
Recent empirical research has shown that income per capita in the aftermath of natural disasters is not necessarily lower than before the event. In many cases, income is not significantly affected and surprisingly, can even respond positively to natural disasters. Here, we propose a simple...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010427140
Cover Image
Natural disasters, growth and institutions : a tale of two earthquakes
Barone, Guglielmo; Mocetti, Sauro - 2013
better define the geographic area hit by the disaster. We examine two large-scale earthquakes that occurred in two different …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011543882
Cover Image
Natural Disasters and Macroeconomic Performance : The Role of Residential Investment
Strulik, Holger - 2014
Recent empirical research has shown that income per capita in the aftermath of natural disasters is not necessarily lower than before the event. Income remains in many cases not significantly affected or, perhaps even more surprisingly, it responds positively to natural disasters. Here, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013057254
Cover Image
Long-term growth effects of natural disasters : empirical evidence for droughts
Berlemann, Michael; Wenzel, Daniela - 2015
The ongoing process of climate change goes along with a higher frequency and/or severity of droughts. While the short-term growth consequences of droughts are comparatively well examined, little research has yet been devoted to the question whether and how droughts affect medium and long-term...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011384506
Cover Image
Death tolls from natural disasters : influence of interactions among fiscal decentralization, institutions and economic development
Yamamura, Eiji - 2012
institution play only a minor role in the mitigation of damage in the event of a natural disaster. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011526622
Cover Image
Disasters and Development : Natural Disasters, Credit Constraints and Economic Growth
McDermott, Thomas K. J. - 2013
theoretical model are then tested using a panel of data on natural disaster events at the country-year level, covering the period … 1979-2007. In line with recent literature, we find that natural disaster events exert a significant negative impact on … hypothesis that credit constraints cause disaster events to have more persistent effects on economic growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013093445
Cover Image
The Impacts of Tropical Cyclones and Fluvial Floods on Economic Growth – Empirical Evidence on Transmission Channels at Different Levels of Development
Krichene, Hazem - 2020
against disaster losses. Across all levels of development, investment, international trade are the most important transmission …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012834894