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The Macroeconomic Impact Of Natural Disasters In Developing Countries: Evidence From Hurricane Strikes In The Central American And Caribbean Region

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  • Strobl, Eric
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In this paper we investigate the macroeconomic impact of natural disasters in developing countries by examining hurricane strikes in the Central American and Caribbean region. Our innovation in this regard is to employ a windfield model combined with a power dissipation equation on hurricane track data to arrive at a more scientifically based index of potential local destruction. This index allows us to identify potential damages at a detailed geographical level, compare hurricanes' destructiveness, as well as identify the countries most affected, without having to rely on potentially questionable monetary loss estimates. Combining our destruction index with macroeconomic data we show that the average hurricane strike caused output to fall by up to 0.8 percentage points in the region, although this crucially depends on controlling for local economic characteristics of the country affected.

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  • Strobl, Eric, 2009. "The Macroeconomic Impact Of Natural Disasters In Developing Countries: Evidence From Hurricane Strikes In The Central American And Caribbean Region," Proceedings of the German Development Economics Conference, Frankfurt a.M. 2009 35, Verein für Socialpolitik, Research Committee Development Economics.
    • Handle: RePEc:zbw:gdec09:35
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    1. Macro-Economic Effects of Hurricanes (Ref.: Central America)
      by UDADISI in UDADISI on 2012-09-06 23:47:00

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    1. Karen Fisher-Vanden & Ian Sue Wing & Elisa Lanzi & David Popp, 2013. "Modeling climate change feedbacks and adaptation responses: recent approaches and shortcomings," Climatic Change, Springer, vol. 117(3), pages 481-495, April.
    2. Nekeisha Spencer & Eric Strobl, 2022. "Poverty and hurricane risk exposure in Jamaica," The Geneva Risk and Insurance Review, Palgrave Macmillan;International Association for the Study of Insurance Economics (The Geneva Association), vol. 47(1), pages 141-157, March.

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    economic growth; hurricanes;

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    • E0 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - General

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