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intensity of earthquakes and storms. We find large negative effects for heavily indebted poor, least developed or landlocked … countries via trade linkages. We apply our model to quantify the effects of the 1992 earthquake in Nicaragua, a small, heavily … indebted poor country, and the 2011 Tohoku earthquake in Japan, a large developed economy. We find that spillovers are …
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. In line with theoretical considerations, we find large, persistent negative effects of earthquakes and storms on supply … temporarily up after a disaster. Using a consistent structural trade model, we back out monthly aggregate productivity measures …. We quantify how the adverse productivity effects of the 1992 earthquake in Nicaragua and the 2011 Tohoku earthquake in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012607100
intensity of earthquakes and storms. We find large negative effects for heavily indebted poor, least developed or landlocked … countries via trade linkages. We apply our model to quantify the effects of the 1992 earthquake in Nicaragua, a small, heavily … indebted poor country, and the 2011 Tohoku earthquake in Japan, a large developed economy. We find that spillovers are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012425704
. In line with theoretical considerations, we find large, persistent negative effects of earthquakes and storms on supply … temporarily up after a disaster. Using a consistent structural trade model, we back out monthly aggregate productivity measures …. We quantify how the adverse productivity effects of the 1992 earthquake in Nicaragua and the 2011 Tohoku earthquake in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012606341
. In line with theoretical considerations, we find large, persistent negative effects of earthquakes and storms on supply … temporarily up after a disaster. Using a consistent structural trade model, we back out monthly aggregate productivity measures …. We quantify how the adverse productivity effects of the 1992 earthquake in Nicaragua and the 2011 Tohoku earthquake in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013218873
What drives the resilience of international trade against increasingly destructive natural disasters? In this study, I investigate the dynamics and spatial distribution of Hurricane Katrina's trade effects across U.S. infrastructure and break new ground on the mechanisms underlying the static...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012898775
January 12, 2010 earthquake that struck Haiti. Damages are estimated for a disaster with both 200,000 and 250,000 total dead … and missing (i.e., the range of mortality that the earthquake is estimated to have caused) using Haiti s economic and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010247138
This study provides new causal evidence for the impact of a large-scale natural disaster on local economic activity in … to 2020 for 31 provinces and 429 counties to study the impact of the 2003 Bam earthquake in the Iranian Kerman Province … statistically significant boost in economic activity in the years following the earthquake. This increase in local economic activity …
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Disasters caused by natural hazards, such as earthquakes or hurricanes, have many adverse consequences associated with … the physical damage they cause. Here, we show that the very name given to a disaster can also lead to adverse consequences …. We argue that the name used for a disaster is significant, and is distinct from the physical event itself. Specifically …
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This paper examines the effect of the L'Aquila earthquake on the academic performance of the students of the local … of L'Aquila before and after the earthquake with changes in educational outcomes during the same time period among … students enrolled at other Central Italian universities. The empirical results suggest that while this natural disaster has …
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