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, suggesting that this risk is somewhat unpredictable and undiversifiable. Furthermore, geographic dispersion increases firms …
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fiscal policy and publicly-provided disaster insurance. Our policy conclusions point to the enhanced need to reach and …
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Asia and the Pacific? This paper considers three main disaster risk factors - rising population exposure, greater …. In a regression analysis within a model of disaster risk determination, the most significant association is between the …
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adaptation by directly providing public goods to manage disaster risks or by facilitating private agents' adaptation responses …
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impacted than Growth stocks. As a consequence, we conclude that Value stocks are more prone to disaster risk than Growth stocks … risk vary across decile portfolios of stocks sorted by market equity (ME) and book-to-market equity ratio (BE/ME). Abnormal … returns, illiquidity and tail risk are negatively related to firm size, with small-firm stocks exhibiting a larger negative …
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We document strong abnormal effects due to U.S. landfall hurricanes over the period 1990 to 2017 on stock returns and illiquidity across portfolios of stocks sorted by market equity (ME), book-to-market equity ratio (BE/ME), momentum, return-on-equity (ROE), and investment-to-assets (I/A). ROE-...
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Italy is notoriously prone to natural hazards and disaster risk due to its peninsular and mountainous conformation. The … on the regional economy. Research of this type makes it possible to inform operative disaster risk reduction schemes and … limited risk prevention and legacy of uncontrolled urban expansion contribute to amplifying the risks and their impacts …
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in the country in order to measure the impact of climate change on the dengue risk in Brazil, and also examine the public … risk, a comparative case study research will be used, based on the comparison of cities that suffered from specific climate … conditions that increased the risk of dengue with cities whose climatic conditions stayed the same. The counterfactual will be …
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millions more. To identify the climate impacts on dengue risk in Brazil, a comparative case study is used based on the …
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