Natural disasters, economic growth and spatial spillovers: Evidence from a flash flood in Brazil

In this paper, a flash flood that occurred in the Brazilian state of Santa Catarina in 2008 is used to investigate the existence of spatial spillovers from natural disasters in geographically‐linked areas. In order to do so, we estimated a Difference‐in‐Differences model that explicitly allows for t...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Papers in regional science 2019-04, Vol.98 (2), p.905-924
Hauptverfasser:	Lima, Ricardo Carvalho de Andrade, Barbosa, Antonio Vinícius Barros
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Agricultural industry Economic development Economic growth Economic models Flash floods Floods GDP Gross Domestic Product Municipalities natural disaster Natural disasters Per capita spatial spillover Spillover effect temporal dynamics
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