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Erscheinungsjahr: 
2010
Schriftenreihe/Nr.: 
IDB Working Paper Series No. IDB-WP-183
Verlag: 
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Washington, DC
Zusammenfassung: 
This paper examines the short and long-run average causal impact of catastrophic natural disasters on economic growth by combining information from comparative case studies. The counterfactual of the cases studied is assessed by constructing synthetic control groups, taking advantage of the fact that the timing of large sudden natural disasters is an exogenous event. It is found that only extremely large disasters have a negative effect on output, both in the short and long run. However, this result appears in two events where radical political revolutions followed the natural disasters. Once these political changes are controlled for, even extremely large disasters do not display any significant effect on economic growth. It is also found that smaller, but still very large natural disasters, have no discernible effect on output.
Schlagwörter: 
Natural Disasters
Political Change
Economic Growth and Causal Effects
JEL: 
O40
O47
Dokumentart: 
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