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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...

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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....

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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 …

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Natural Disasters and Macroeconomic Performance : The Role of Residential Investment

Strulik, Holger - 2014

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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...

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Natural Disasters, Foreign Aid, and Economic Growth

Jackson, Osborne - 2014

. Because using a country's own disaster exposure as an instrument for aid inflows violates exogeneity assumptions, I instead … use the disaster exposure of a country's "aid neighbors," defined as its competitors for aid from donors. Using aid …

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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. …

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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 …

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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 …

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Debt, Growth and Natural Disasters a Caribbean Trilogy

Acevedo Mejia, Sebastian - 2014

This paper seeks to determine the effects that natural disasters have on per capita GDP and on the debt to GDP ratio in the Caribbean. Two types of natural disasters are studied –storms and floods– given their prevalence in the region, while considering the effects of both moderate and...

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